ACTOR

Miriam Margolyes

1941 - Today

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Miriam Margolyes ( MAR-gə-leez; born 18 May 1941) is an English and Australian actress. She has gained prominence as a character actor on stage and screen. She received a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and portrayed Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miriam Margolyes has received more than 8,183,153 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Miriam Margolyes is the 2,261st most popular actor (up from 2,408th in 2019), the 2,109th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,230th in 2019) and the 280th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Miriam Margolyes by language

Over the past year Miriam Margolyes has had the most page views in the with 1,415,699 views, followed by German (54,236), and Spanish (30,261). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (103.20%), Ukrainian (97.45%), and Afrikaans (85.23%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Miriam Margolyes ranks 2,261 out of 13,578. Before her are Édith Scob, Frederick Stafford, Gigi Proietti, Marsha Hunt, Anne Revere, and Barbara Steele. After her are Zdeněk Svěrák, Chris O'Donnell, Dee Wallace, Vernon Dobtcheff, Peter Haber, and Christina Grimmie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Miriam Margolyes ranks 219. Before her are Walid Muallem, Percy Sledge, Sonny Landham, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Leonid Kizim, and Jiří Raška. After her are Helen Reddy, Mario Corso, Vlado Milunić, Chucho Valdés, Alfred Aho, and Tomaž Šalamun.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Miriam Margolyes ranks 2,109 out of 8,785. Before her are Irvine Welsh (1957), Jane Digby (1807), James Connolly (1868), Anthony Horowitz (1955), Gregory Winter (1951), and Barbara Steele (1937). After her are Jodie Whittaker (1982), Peter Hammill (1948), William Bayliss (1860), William Blackstone (1723), Caratacus (15), and Roger Bannister (1929).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Miriam Margolyes ranks 280. Before her are Francesca Annis (1945), Tom Courtenay (1937), Frank Finlay (1926), Anthony Dawson (1916), James Fox (1939), and Barbara Steele (1937). After her are Jodie Whittaker (1982), Michael Byrne (1943), Samantha Eggar (1939), Stephen Dillane (1957), John Hannah (1962), and Patrick Magee (1922).

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Television and Movie Roles

Mulan
The Matchmaker (voice)
To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Jun 18o 19987.914 / 10
Babe
Fly (voice)
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Jul 18o 19956.191 / 10
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pomona Sprout
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Nov 13o 20027.719 / 10