Margot Leicester

Known for ActingBorn 1949-09-01 (age 76)Lancashire, England, UK

Margot was born in September 1949. Growing up in Middleton in Lancashire she attended Bury Grammar school, whose theatre trips to Stratford on Avon, the Manchester Exchange and Octagon Theatre, Bolton, led to her interest in acting. On leaving school she read English, aptly enough at the University of Leicester, and on graduation worked in repertory theatres around the country. In 1972, whilst appearing at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, she met the director David Thacker and they married two years later, eventually raising four children. They have subsequently worked together on numerous occasions - with Margot being nominated for an Olivier award in 1994 for their collaboration on the play 'Breaking Glass' at the National Theatre. In 2008 David became the artistic director at the Octagon, working with Margot on acclaimed productions of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf', 'The Glass Menagerie' and 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'. Margot is also a director of the Haringey Shed Company, a London-based theatre group which encourages teenagers to take up acting.Read more

Movies & web series

Broken Glass

Chandler & Co

Spooks

The Take

Midsomer Murders

New Tricks

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Waking the Dead

Heartbeat

Grace

1408

The XYY Man

Pack of Lies

King Charles III

Peak Practice

Performance

Ghosts

Holby City

Margot

White Widow

Killer Net

King Girl

Midnight Whispers

Blue Borsalino

Full Time

Shalom Salaam

From the Roots Came the Rapper

Waiting at the Field Gate