Biography
After studies at Cambridge, she began acting in radio with the BBC. Over the next decade Margolyes' ripe delivery could be heard everywhere in radio spots and TV commercial voiceovers, including a stint as a seductive rabbit plugging Cadbury's Carmel Bunny candy and as a charwoman chimp for a tea ad.
Margolyes did not act regularly in film until the mid-1970s, and for a time most of her roles were in little-seen British films including "The …
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Career Milestones
| Appeared in a long-running series of commercial in England for British Telecom | ||
| Found second career recording books on tape | ||
| Raised in Oxford, England | ||
1963 | Got a job after graduating from college with the BBC's radio repertory company (date approximate) | |
1969 | Made feature film debut in a small role in "A Nice Girl Like Me" | |
1980 | Made first American films, "The Apple" and "The Awakening" | |
1987 | First major appearance on US TV, in a three-part adaptation of "The Little Princess", which aired on PBS | |
1991 | Starred in the one-woman show, "Woomen, Lovely Woomen", onstage in London's West End; played a variety of female characters from the works of Charles Dickens; later took the show on tour internationally | |
1992 | American TV series debut: starred in the title role of Frannie Escobar in the short-lived CBS sitcom, "Frannie's Turn" | |
1993 | First starring role onstage in a major play, as Mrs. Hardcastle in Sir Peter Hall's staging of Oliver Goldsmith's classic 18th century Restoration farce, "She Stoops to Conquer" | |
1995 | Provided the voice of Fly, the sheepdog who serves as surrogate mother to the title piglet in the Oscar-nominated "Babe" | |
1996 | Played the Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet" | |
1996 | Was one of the voices on the soundtrack for the award-winning documentary "The Long Way Home" | |
1998 | Reprised Fly for the sequel "Babe: Pig in the City" | |
1999 | Cast as the original matriarch of a Hungarian-Jewish family in Istvan Szabo's "Sunshine" | |
1999 | Returned to the London stage to star as Ranyevskaya in "The Cherry Orchard" | |
2000 | Co-starred with Stacy Keach and Jeffrey Jones in the L.A. premiere of "Another Time" | |
2001 | Appeared in the London staging of "The Vagina Monologues" | |
2002 | Played Professor Sprout in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" | |
2004 | Cast in "Being Julia," based on the novel "Theatre," by W. Somerset Maugham | |
2004 | Co-starred as Peg Sellers in "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" with Geoffrey Rush and Charlize Theron | |
2005 | Cast in "Modigliani," a story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso | |
2006 | Cast in the Australian-produced computer-animated film, "Happy Feet" | |
Awards
1993 | BAFTA Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in The Age of Innocence |