Miriam Margolyes

The Age of Innocence review – Scorsese’s brilliant tragedy of New York society manners

Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer are powerfully matched as guilty lovers in an Edith Wharton adaptation that bears comparison with Hollywood’s golden age classics

Peter Bradshaw

15, Mar, 2023 @7:00 AM

‘Torture in a tin’: Miriam Margolyes and others urge ban on foie gras imports

Exclusive: Celebrities sign letter to Sunak after reports that proposed restriction on delicacy may be dropped

Haroon Siddique Legal correspondent

07, Feb, 2023 @11:01 AM

Leading artists criticise Barbican’s collaboration with Israeli embassy for concert

Jerusalem Orchestra East & West’s performance ‘cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity’, claims letter by over 50 artists

Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

01, Feb, 2023 @5:55 PM

The long and short of being a 6ft teen | Brief letters

Brief letters: Trials of being tall | Meeting Miriam Margolyes | Jumpsuits on planes | Brief letter boost | Alan Sugar does irony

10, Jan, 2023 @6:12 PM

Miriam Margolyes: ‘People have this idea that I’m a walking cesspit. I think it’s quite unfair’

The outspoken doyenne of stage, film and television answers your questions on who’s nice (and who’s not) in Hollywood, the voice she can’t bear and why she likes talking about sex

As told to Rich Pelley

05, Jan, 2023 @1:16 PM

TV tonight: take a look at events of the past 12 months – from space

It’s been a year of huge news on Earth, but how are things looking from up above? Plus: Waterloo Road returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

Phil Harrison, Danielle De Wolfe, Hollie Richardson, Graeme Virtue and Ali Catterall

03, Jan, 2023 @6:20 AM

Post your questions for Miriam Margolyes

Have you something to ask the outspoken doyen of stage and screen? Then send it our way and we’ll put it to her

Rich Pelley

26, Dec, 2022 @9:00 AM

Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas review – Margolyes is as punchy and rich as a boozy pudding

The lifelong Dickens fan is an absolute joy to watch when she’s reading from his work – and at one point you’ll wish she was our queen. But this show needed more fury about poverty

Emine Saner

20, Dec, 2022 @10:00 PM

Have we fallen out of love with celebrity memoirs?

The year’s autobiography big-hitters haven’t sold as well as expected, with buyers disenchanted by pricing and lack of feelgood topics

Sarah Shaffi

09, Dec, 2022 @10:52 AM

Miriam Margolyes swears live on air about chancellor Jeremy Hunt

Actor, 81, told BBC’s Today programme she wished him luck in his new job but wanted to say ‘Fuck you, bastard’

Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill

15, Oct, 2022 @10:17 AM

Alan Cumming: ‘You’d be shocked by the messages Miriam Margolyes and I leave each other!’

As he brings his one-man show about ‘rockstar’ poet Robert Burns to the Edinburgh festival, the star talks about desire, debauchery and dancing in his 50s

Lyndsey Winship

03, Aug, 2022 @9:00 AM

Something about Miriam Margolyes v Arnold Schwarzenegger smells funny

National treasure Margolyes has resurrected her claim that Arnie deliberately farted in her face during the making of the 1999 film End of Days. But could she have an ulterior motive?

Stuart Heritage

20, Jul, 2022 @11:59 AM