Miriam Margolyes joins new James Bond cast in ‘gender-swapped’ role

Miriam Margolyes is joining the James Bond franchise (Picture: ITV)

Miriam Margolyes is making her James Bond debut in a gender-swapped role, it’s been confirmed. 

The Harry Potter actor, 85, joins the cast of Young Bond: SilverFin as Cleek MacSawney, described as ‘a violent henchperson on the Scottish estate of villain Lord Hellebore’. 

She joins other new additions Harry Marcus and Christopher Nathan in the audio drama based on the first novel in Charlie Higson’s Young Bond book series, starring The Crown’s Isaac Rouse as the man himself, 007. 

In Higson’s novel, M...