The one-and-only Miriam Margolyes has packed up the campervan and is on the road once again in the three-part series Miriam Margolyes Australia Unmasked. Miriam sets out to understand what the ‘Fair Go’ means in Australia today and how it is playing out in the diverse lives of her fellow citizens. Following the standout success […]
H is for Happiness | Dir: John Sheedy | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Walking out if the screening of this film, my companion asked why Australians always seem to make quirky films and my response was that it is because we do them so well. We are able to laugh at ourselves and celebrate […]
Celebrated actor and new Australian citizen Miriam Margolyes is setting off on a 10,000-kilometre, two-month journey to discover what it means to be an Australian today. The Harry Potter star says becoming an Australian citizen at the age of 71 was “a day of supreme happiness and real joy,” but it also made her realise how […]
March 2015 Soulful chanteuse Neneh Cherry performed for the first time in Australia, and Rufus Wainwright slew audiences at the Perth Concert Hall. ‘The L Word’ star Sandra Bernhard brought her one woman show ‘Sandyland’ to the Regal Theatre. SBS2 and SBS On Demand ran a week of LGBTIQ themed movies to celebrate the Sydney Gay & […]
Popular TV show Rake has just started filming a new series, queer favourite Miriam Margolyes is joining the cast. Richard Roxburugh is back on board in the lead role playing Cleaver Greene, while Matt Day, Danielle McCormack and Russell Dykstra have signed back on too. Dykstra just finished playing the warthog Pumba in the Lion […]
Miriam Margolyes is many things: a star of stage and screen, an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to drama, and as of 2013, an Australian citizen. Many will be familiar with her as Professor Sprout in the ‘Harry Potter’ or Aunt Prudence on ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’. I caught […]
Britain’s best export Miriam Margolyes is returning to the panel of ‘Q and A’ next Monday to charm the nation once again. The star of stage and screen is best known for portraying Professor Sprout in the ‘Harry Potter’ films, Aunt Prudence in the cult ABC series ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries’ and Aunt Sponge in […]
Acclaimed storyteller and actor Miriam Margolyes is bringing her new show ‘The Importance of Being Miriam’ to Perth next year. Margolyes has a prolific career in radio, television, film and theatre. Her recent work includes playing the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films and Aunt Prudence in Australian series ‘Miss Fisher’s Murder […]
Miriam Margolyes serves up a second helping of Dickens Women… February 7th 2012 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Marked in England with a year- long celebration of the writer and his work, Perth audiences have an opportunity to engage with some of the writer’s most beloved female characters when Miriam […]
