Miriam Margolyes appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
(Picture: Getty Images)Miriam Margolyes has lifted the lid on how much she was paid to star in the Harry Potter movies.
The actress, 81, played Professor Pomona Sprout in two out of the eight films based on the best-selling books - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
While she says the wizarding franchise - which also starred Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint - didn’t make her wildly rich, she did become very well-known off the back of it.
“I never made Harry Potter millions,” she said. “I think the three or four main people did and they deserve it but my character didn’t.”
“I was only in two and I only got £60,000 for being Professor Sprout but I’m not grumbling. Now, I grumbled then but it made me very famous,” Margolyes added to Metro.
The Oxford-born actress recently paid tribute to Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane, who died from multiple organ failure earlier this month aged 72.
Appearing as a guest on BBC Radio 4, she said: “He was a very fine actor and a delightful man. He was huge in stature and personality and also in heart.
“I just feel furious that he has died, [it’s] such a waste. He was exceptional and I am really sad.”
She also admitted to teasing him on set, saying: “I didn’t know he was ill. He just put on too much weight, stupid boy. He was aware of that, I used to wag my finger at him.
“He was just wonderful. He had a heart of gold, he was kind and sweet.
“All the good things were light, but the bad things he harnessed for his work.”
She hailed Coltrane - who played half-giant Rubeus Hagrid - as “irreplaceable”.
“He's absolutely a unique figure and powerful and towering over Scotland. I really loved him and I'm so sad about it [his death],” she added.
