Pam Ferris (born 1 January 1948) is a German-born British actress. She is best known for her starring roles on television as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May and Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme, and for playing Miss Trunchbull in the movie Matilda, and Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Ferris was born in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, to Welsh parents, while her father was serving in the Royal Air Force. Ferris spent h...
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Pam Ferris (born 1 January 1948) is a German-born British actress. She is best known for her starring roles on television as Ma Larkin in The Darling Buds of May and Laura Thyme in Rosemary & Thyme, and for playing Miss Trunchbull in the movie Matilda, and Aunt Marge in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Ferris was born in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany, to Welsh parents, while her father was serving in the Royal Air Force. Ferris spent her childhood in the Aberkenfig area, near Bridgend in Wales. Her father, Fred Ferris, was a policeman, and her mother, Ann Perkins, worked in her family's bakery business. Her family immigrated to New Zealand when she was thirteen. Ferris returned to the UK in her early twenties. In 1986, she married actor Roger Frost.
She performed in her younger years at the Mercury Theatre in Auckland.
Ferris is best known for her role as motherly Ma Larkin in the ITV series The Darling Buds of May, which ran from 1991 to 1993. However, she has also acted...
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