Mistress of disguise TANYA GOLD This Much Is True
John Murray, £20
Miriam Margolyes is more gifted and more serious than her multifarious roles suggest.
Her performance as Mrs Manson Mingott in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence, although she’s playing opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, is the best thing in it. Manson Mingott is kindly and cynical, buried under a mountain of her own flesh.
Scorsese was wise to cast Margolyes. I think this is what she is like when she
