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Miriam Karlin OBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 23 June 1925) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, North London
North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
, she was brought up as an Orthodox
Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
 Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
; members of her family were among those who later died at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Her father Henry Samuels, wrote books about trade unions.

After training at RADA, Karlin made her stage debut for ENSA
ENSA

ENSA may be:* ENSA * EC-Council Network Security Administrator* Entertainments National Service Association* European Student Nurse Association...
 - the Forces Entertainment organisation - in wartime shows and subsequently appeared in repertory theatre and cabaret.






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Miriam Karlin OBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 23 June 1925) is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
.

Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead
Hampstead

Hampstead is an area of London, England, located north-west of Charing Cross. It is part of the London Borough of Camden. It is situated within Inner London....
, North London
North London

North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
, she was brought up as an Orthodox
Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
 Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
; members of her family were among those who later died at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Her father Henry Samuels, wrote books about trade unions.

After training at RADA, Karlin made her stage debut for ENSA
ENSA

ENSA may be:* ENSA * EC-Council Network Security Administrator* Entertainments National Service Association* European Student Nurse Association...
 - the Forces Entertainment organisation - in wartime shows and subsequently appeared in repertory theatre and cabaret. Her plays included The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed

The Bad Seed is a 1954 novel by William March, nominated for the 1955 National Book Award. It was the last major work written by March, and, although published in his lifetime, its enormous critical and commercial success was largely realized after his death, one month after publication....
, The Egg, Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
 and Bus Stop
Bus Stop (play)

Bus Stop is a 1955 in literature#New drama Play by William Inge. The Bus Stop of the same name is only loosely based upon it....
. She made her movie debut in 1952's Down Among the Z Men
Down Among the Z Men

Down Among the Z Men is a 1952 in film United Kingdom comedy film starring The Goons; Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe....
, as well as featuring in Room at the Top
Room at the Top

Room at the Top is a 1959 in film British film based on the Room at the Top by John Braine. The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler....
, Heavens Above!
Heavens Above!

Heavens Above! is a 1963 in film United Kingdom satirical comedy film starring Peter Sellers, directed by John and Roy Boulting, who also co-wrote along with Frank Harvey, from an idea by Malcolm Muggeridge....
 and Mahler
Mahler (film)

Mahler is a 1974 in film biographical film based on the life of composer Gustav Mahler. It was written and directed by Ken Russell for Goodtimes Enterprises, and starred Robert Powell as Gustav Mahler and Georgina Hale as Alma Mahler-Werfel....
 by Ken Russell
Ken Russell

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an England film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style....
.

On television Karlin became known for playing the belligerent shop steward Paddy in the The Rag Trade
The Rag Trade

'The Rag Trade' is a United Kingdom television sitcom transmitted by the BBC between 1961 and 1963.The scripts were by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, who later wrote Wild, Wild Women, a period variation of The Rag Trade'....
, a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 sitcom set in a textile factory. Paddy would use the slightest opportunity to cause a strike; her trademark was blowing a whistle and shouting "Everybody out!" She played the role, to great success, between 1961 and 1963. The show was resurrected by the BBC's rival channel, ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
 but it was a pale imitation of the original. She also played the ghost of Yetta Feldman in the BBC1 sitcom So Haunt Me
So Haunt Me

So Haunt Me was a United Kingdom sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother....
.

Karlin has appeared on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, Warwickshire, south east of Birmingham and south west of the county town, Warwick....
, the Aldwych Theatre, and The Barbican Centre. She appeared in And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None (1943 play)

And Then There Were None is a 1943 Play by crime writer Agatha Christie...
 by Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English people crime writer of novels, short stories and Play ....
, as well as appearing in a national tour of 84 Charing Cross Road
84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between her and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co, antiquarian booksellers located at the eponymous address in London, England....
. She became the first woman to play the central role in The Caretaker
The Caretaker

The Caretaker is a play by the List_of_Nobel_laureates#Literature Harold Pinter, first published in 1959. It was Pinter?s sixth stage/TV play and was the work that gave him his first significant commercial success....
 written by Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter, Companion of Honour, Order of the British Empire , an English people playwright, screenwriter, actor, Theatre director, poet, author, political activist, and the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature, was at the time of his death considered by many "the most influential and imitated dramatist of his generation."...
.

Karlin also appeared in the 1989 TV movie The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by the Scotland author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr....
.

Background

Karlin was born in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, the daughter of Celine (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels Karlin. Her film roles include A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange (film)

A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 satire science fiction film film adaptation of a 1962 A Clockwork Orange, written by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, co-written, and directed by Stanley Kubrick....
 and The Millionairess
The Millionairess

The Millionairess is a 1960 in film romantic comedy film set in London, directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren....
. She later played Yetta Feldman, the Jewish
Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
 ghost
Ghost

File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death....
, in the BBC sitcom So Haunt Me
So Haunt Me

So Haunt Me was a United Kingdom sitcom about a family that moves into a home occupied by the ghost of its previous resident, a middle-aged Jewish mother....
. She also starred with Topol
Chaim Topol

Chaim Topol , often billed simply as Topol, is one of the most famous Israeli theater and film performers....
 in Fiddler on the Roof
Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof is a musical theatre with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in Tsarist Russia in 1905....
. In 2008, she appeared at the age of 83 in the stage play Many Roads to Paradise by Stewart Permutt at the Finborough Theatre
Finborough Theatre

Founded in 1980, the Finborough Theatre in the Earls Court neighborhood of London, United Kingdom , presents new United Kingdom writing, United Kingdom premieres of overseas drama , music theatre, and rarely seen rediscovered 19th and 20th century Play ....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
.

Karlin , who has never married, lives in South London.

Attributes

Karlin is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association
British Humanist Association

The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism . The BHA is committed to secularism, human rights, democracy, egalitarianism and mutual respect....
 and a patron of the Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK

The Burma Campaign UK founded in 1991 is a London based Non Governmental Organisation that aims to achieve the 'restoration of human rights and democracy in Burma ....
, the London based group campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma. A lifelong campaigner for Jewish and left-wing causes, she has been an active member of the actors' union, Equity
Equity

Equity is the name given to the set of law principles, in jurisdictions following the English law common law tradition, which supplement strict rules of law where their application would operate harshly, so as to achieve what is sometimes referred to as "natural justice"....
, and was awarded an OBE for her union and welfare work.

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