Miriam Margolyes sidelined by crisis-hit actors’ charity
Miriam Margolyes is being pushed aside by an actors’ charity which claims to want more diversity.
The Harry Potter actress, 82, who has described herself as a “fat Jewish lesbian”, might be seen as a one-woman cornucopia of protected characteristics.
Yet Margolyes has failed to make the list of recommended candidates for the trustees’ council of the £36 million Actors’ Benevolent Fund (ABF) whose new motto is “kindness, integrity, inclusivity”.
The charity’s decision to issue ballot papers with a list of recommended candidates and another list of “other candidates” risks fuelling what the Charity Commission has condemned as a bitter and harmful dispute.
She said in her election address: “I want to do some good before I die.”
She said: “I’m running to unify the
