1. Miriam Karlin was an English actress whose career lasted for more than 60 years.
12 Facts About Miriam Karlin
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Miriam Karlin was the daughter of Celine and Harry Samuels, a barrister, who specialised in industrial and trade union law.
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When performing in one of her first radio shows, Terry-Thomas's Top of the Town, Miriam Karlin based some of the zany characters that she invented and played on people who had appeared before the rent tribunal chaired by her father.
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Miriam Karlin appeared in the West End in Women of Twilight, The Bad Seed, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Egg, Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, Fiddler on the Roof, Bus Stop, Torch Song Trilogy and Separate Tables, among others.
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Miriam Karlin performed in the stage version of Fiddler on the Roof at Her Majesty's Theatre, starring the Israeli actor Topol.
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Miriam Karlin performed on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Aldwych Theatre, and the Barbican Centre.
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Miriam Karlin appeared in a national tour of 84 Charing Cross Road.
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Miriam Karlin was an active member of the actors' union, Equity, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1975 for her union and welfare work.
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Miriam Karlin was a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, a patron of both the Burma Campaign UK and Dignity in Dying and a trustee of the Eddie Surman Trust.
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Miriam Karlin admitted to a lifelong battle with anorexia and bulimia that began in 1956 and lasted more than 48 years.
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Miriam Karlin often claimed that her peripheral neuropathy was a side effect of a chronic eating disorder and years of laxative and appetite suppressant abuse.
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In late 2005, while filming an Agatha Christie TV mystery, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Miriam Karlin was told that she had cancer and that part of her tongue would have to be removed.