With a career that has spanned nearly 50 years, it might be hard to pinpoint your favourite Miriam Margolyes moment. Maybe you remember her Bafta-winning performance as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence? As the rude-shaped-turnip-appreciating Lady Whiteadder in Blackadder? Or as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter franchise?

The Jewish, Labour-supporting actor has been outspoken about her politics since her days growing up in Oxford and studying at Cambridge university, so when it comes to interviews, she’s gold dust. She explained to Graham Norton how, erm, “sexually aroused” she was at first meting Sir Laurence Olivier and told Daniel Radcliffe how much he had “matured” since they first worked together. In October she told Radio 4 exactly what she thinks of Jeremy Hunt. And now she’s fronting The Big Gay “Donation” to get the 2030 World Cup held in a LGBTQ+ friendly host country, a campaign that has currently raised over £15K.