#miriam-margolyes

#miriam-margolyes

Nestled within that outrageousness was swift promotion of her beautiful new short film, A Friend of Dorothy. In it, she plays Dorothy, an elderly widow with limited mobility who meets young, closeted queer man JJ (played with startling fragility by newcomer Alistair Nwachukwu) after he accidentally kicks his football into her garden. A friendship blossoms, as they provide a sense of belonging and stability to one another at a time when, despite their different life stages, both are feeling cast adrift.

You might have seen on the internet, and in a few papers, something a few knobheads wrote that I was at death's door. I'm very much alive and raring to go to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

In 2023, after suffering a health scare, Margolyes underwent a procedure called transcatheter aortic valve replacement, replacing her heart valve with one from a cow.