Miriam Margolyes - Milestones

• 2005: Cast in "Modigliani," a story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso
• 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
• 2002: Played Professor Sprout in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
• 2001: Appeared in the London staging of "The Vagina Monologues"
• 2000: Co-starred with Stacy Keach and Jeffrey Jones in the L.A. premiere of "Another Time"
• 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"
• 1998: Reprised Fly for the sequel "Babe: Pig in the City"
• 1996: Was one of the voices on the soundtrack for the award-winning documentary "The Long Way Home"
• 1996: Played the Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet"
• 1995: Provided the voice of Fly, the sheepdog who serves as surrogate mother to the title piglet in the Oscar-nominated "Babe"
• 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"
• 1992: American TV series debut: starred in the title role of Frannie Escobar in the short-lived CBS sitcom, "Frannie's Turn"
• 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
• 1987: First major appearance on US TV, in a three-part adaptation of "The Little Princess", which aired on PBS
• 1980: Made first American films, "The Apple" and "The Awakening"
• 1969: Made feature film debut in a small role in "A Nice Girl Like Me"
• 1963: Got a job after graduating from college with the BBC's radio repertory company (date approximate)
• Found second career recording books on tape
• Raised in Oxford, England
• Appeared in a long-running series of commercial in England for British Telecom