The 84-year-old actor was rumoured to miss the festival due to ill health, but said she had no plans to slow down.

Miriam Margolyes and Charles Dickens go together like butter and crumpets, or humbug and politicians. With her distinctive presence and larger-than-life personality, Margolyes, 83, might have ...

A quote in Dickens' Women by Miriam Margolyes stops you short. In a letter to a friend in 1842, Dickens says of his wife, with impassive cruelty, "Catherine is as near being a donkey as one of her ...

Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits – a one-hour, one-woman homage that’s packing out the vast conference-hall theatre at the EICC – continues a love affair with the man she calls the “greatest writer ...

Speaking to the Georgia Straight by telephone, actor Miriam Margolyes turns out to be as eccentrically surprising as any of the 21 females she plays in her solo show Dickens’ Women.

Here’s Miriam Margolyes talking about Dickens in 2011. Simi Horwitz is a feature writer and film reviewer based in New York City.

Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in the history of literature. While many of Dickens' most well-known characters are male (Ebenezer Scrooge, Pop, The Artful Dodger, Oliver ...

Miriam Margolyes is recognized for the iconic role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, The Nurse in Baz Luhrmann 's Romeo + Juliet, and Mrs. Mingott in Martin Scorsese 's The Age of ...

Miriam Margolyes, Harry Potter’s Professor Sprout, performed her one-woman show, Dickens’ Women, at the Christmas Dickensian Festival this past week in Malton. Dickens’ Women was also co ...

Theatre Reviews Miriam Margolyes is a star in Dickens’ Women by Colin Thomas on November 16th, 2012 at 4:57 PM ...

“Dickens’ Women,” first performed by star and co-creator Miriam Margolyes in 1989, closes out a monthslong international tour in honor of Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday Saturday at […] ...

Miriam Margolyes' Olivier Award-nominated one-woman show, Dickens' Women , an intimate evening of indelible characters that has been presented around the world, plays two Manhattan performances ...