Potter star’s walk on the mild side after op
ACTRESS Miriam Margolyes has revealed that she is able to enjoy countryside walks for the first time in years after a having a knee-replacement operation to tackle osteoarthritis.
The 75-year-old, pictured below, who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, has finally recovered after the operation she had last summer and can now exercise again without suffering pain.
She says: ‘Since having my knee op, it means that I can do things I haven’t been able to for a few years. In a sense it has changed my life because I have only recently been able to go out walking and I could never have done it before.’
Last year Miriam underwent an MRI scan which showed that her knee cartilage had worn away. ‘The doctor said my bone was rubbing on bone, which sounds as painful as it was, so we decided on a knee replacement,’ she explains. Following the op, she was able to take part in Sky Arts channel’s Tate Britain’s Great British Walks. She retraced the steps of her favourite painter, Alfred Wallis, who famously produced landscape paintings of St Ives in Cornwall. Miriam says: ‘It took three months until I was able to walk without crutches, which is when I went to film in Cornwall. It was so liberating being able to walk without being in pain.’