Miriam Margoyles speaks about dad's Glasgow upbringing
Speaking with a soft Glasgow accent, she said: "He was born in the Gorbals in 1899.
"His father came over in something like 1870 but he was born in 1899 and he never stopped with the accent so I heard it from when I was a wee girl.
"What do you call it? A wain."
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Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, was born in Oxford in 1941 and her father was a merchant navy doctor who lived until he was 96 years old.
Margolyes went on to speak about how the Gorbals has changed, saying she wants the area to be "as it was".
She said: "I think they've taken the heart out of it, I don't like it when things are renovated.
"I want it to be as it was. I like the old, I always have its not just because I am old."
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She went on to say she 'loves' Pollokshields because they haven't "damaged" the area "yet".
Her parents lived in the area before they moved to Oxford, the BBC reports..
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