1. Pamela Ferris was born on 11 May 1948 and is a Welsh actress.
14 Facts About Pam Ferris
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Pam Ferris is best known to younger audiences for her role as Miss Agatha Trunchbull in the film Matilda.
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Pam Ferris was born on 11 May 1948 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, to a Welsh mother and an English father who was serving in the Royal Air Force.
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Pam Ferris's father, Fred Ferris, was a policeman, and her mother, Ann Perkins, worked in her family's bakery business.
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Pam Ferris performed in her younger years at the Mercury Theatre in Auckland, and later with various regional companies in the UK.
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Pam Ferris played motherly Ma Larkin in the ITV series The Darling Buds of May, which ran from 1991 to 1993.
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Pam Ferris was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1991, when she was surprised by Michael Aspel while recording an episode of The Darling Buds of May at Yorkshire Television in Leeds.
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Pam Ferris has acted in a succession of television dramas, including Meantime, in which she played the Cockney mother of Phil Daniels and Tim Roth, Connie, Hardwicke House, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Where the Heart Is, and Paradise Heights.
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In 1996, Pam Ferris portrayed the brutish, authoritarian school headmistress Miss Agatha Trunchbull in Matilda.
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In 2006, Pam Ferris took on the role of Miriam, a motherly British activist, in Children of Men.
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Pam Ferris has acted in productions for BBC Radio 4.
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In 2007, Pam Ferris took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about her Welsh family history.
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From 2012 to 2016, Pam Ferris played the part of Sister Evangelina in the series Call the Midwife.
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In June and July 2015, Pam Ferris was the guest of Sarah Walker on BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics.