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Miriam Karlin OBE (born 23 June 1925) is a British actress. Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead, North...

Miriam Karlin OBE (born 23 June 1925) is a British actress. Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead, North London, she was brought up as an Orthodox Jew; members of her family were among those who later died at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. She was the daughter of Celine (née Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels Karlin, who wrote books about trade unions. Her film roles include parts in A Clockwork Orange and The Millionairess. She also starred with Topol in Fiddler on the Roof. In 2008, she appeared at the age of 83 in the stage play Many Roads to Paradise by Stewart Permutt at the Finborough Theatre, London. After training at RADA, Karlin made her stage debut for ENSA - 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 Egg, Fiddler on the Roof and Bus Stop. She made her movie debut in 1952's Down Among the Z Men, as well as featuring in Room at the Top, Heavens Above!, Ladies Who Do and Mahler by Ken Russell. On television Karlin became known for playing the belligerent shop steward Paddy in the The Rag Trade, a British sitcom set in a textile factory.