Miriam Margolyes
Born: 1941-05-18 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Miriam Margolyes (born May 18, 1941) is a British-Australian actress, writer, political activist and television personality, most prominent as a character actor on stage and screen. Her earliest roles were in theatre and, following a transition to film and television, she won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).
Filmography
2026
- Holy Days as Sister Luke
- Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me as Self
- Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me as Self
2025
- Badjelly as Badjelly (voice)
- A Friend of Dorothy as Dorothy
- Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand as Self - Presenter
- Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2024
- Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian as Self
- Alec Guinness: A Class Act as self
- The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved as Narrator (voice)
- How To Make It In Comedy
2023
- My Happy Ending as Judy
- Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
- Next to You as Granny Vera
- Mog's Christmas as Aunt One (voice)
- Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes as Self
- Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer as Self
2022
- Remembers… as Self
- Dog Squad as Sylvie (voice)
- The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- Miriam's Dickensian Christmas as Self
- David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration as Self
- Judi Dench: Our National Treasure as Self
- Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked as Self - Host
- imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Self
2021
- Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self
- H Is for Happiness as Miss Bamford
- Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
- Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership as Narrator
2020
- Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears as Prudence Stanley
- Wings as Audrey
- Miriam's Big Fat Adventure as Self - Presenter
- Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian as Self - Host
- The Last Artifact as Narrator (UK version)
2019
- Miriam's Dead Good Adventure as Herself - Presenter
- Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter as Herself
2018
- Apple & Onion as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
- Early Man as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
- Miriam’s Big American Adventure as Herself
- Postcards from the 48%
2017
- The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mrs. Fisk
- The Little Vampire 3D as Wulftrud (voice)
- Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- Bucket as Mim
- Harry Potter: A History Of Magic as Herself
- Peter and the Wolf as Narrator
2016
- John Bishop: In Conversation with... as Self
- The Real Marigold Hotel as Self
- The Real Marigold on Tour as Self - Host
- Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book as Self
2015
- The Weekly with Charlie Pickering as Self
- The Importance of Being Miriam
- Mother as Maria Aponte
- Spirit-ED as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
2014
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Maya the Bee Movie as Queen (voice)
- Honeysuckle as Patricia
- The Legend of Longwood as Lady Thyrza
- Outlier as Odamee Marshall
- The Seventeenth Kind as Mrs. Mark
2013
- The Last Leg as Self
- Plebs as Iona
2012
- Call the Midwife as Mother Mildred
- Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Aunt Prudence
- The Guilt Trip as Anita
- Sir Billi as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
- The Wedding Video as Patricia
- A Closed Book as Mrs. Kilbride
- The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
2011
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Pomona Sprout
- Trollied
- When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
- The Itch of the Golden Nit as Mummy Socks (voice)
2010
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
- Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2009
2008
- Merlin as Grunhilda
- Q&A as Self - Panellist
- How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Mrs. Kowalski
- Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- We Are Most Amused as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- The Sarah Jane Adventures as Leaf Blathereen (voice)
- Kingdom as Henny Leach
- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Narrator (voice)
- What the Pythons Did Next... as Narrator
- The Dukes as Aunt Vee
- Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema as Narrator
2006
- Happy Feet as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
- Flushed Away as Rita's Grandma (voice)
- Jam and Jerusalem as Joyce Midge
2005
- American Dad! as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
- Wallis & Edward as Aunt Bessie
- Dickens in America as Host
2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Price-Ridley
- Chasing Liberty as Maria
- Being Julia as Dolly de Vries
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Peg Sellers
- Modigliani as Gertrude Stein
- Ladies in Lavender as Dorcas
- The Phoenix and the Carpet as Cook
2002
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Pomona Sprout
- Dickens as Catherine Dickens
- Undertaking Betty as Thelma & Selma
- Alone as Caseworker
2001
- Cats & Dogs as Sophie the Castle Maid
- In Search of Peace as Ester Cailingold (voice)
- Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2000
- House! as Auntie Beth
1999
- Family Guy as Right Eyeball (voice)
- Magnolia as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
- End of Days as Mabel
- Sunshine as Rose Sonnenschein
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Signora Caldoni
1998
- Mulan as The Matchmaker (voice)
- Babe: Pig in the City as Fly (voice)
- Vanity Fair as Miss Crawley
- Supply and Demand as CS Edna Colley
- Left Luggage as Mrs. Goldman
- The First Snow of Winter as Sean McDuck (voice)
1997
- Dharma & Greg as Chloe
- The Long Way Home as (voice)
- The Phoenix and the Carpet as Cook
- The IMAX Nutcracker as Sugar Plum
1996
- Romeo + Juliet as Nurse
- James and the Giant Peach as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
- Different for Girls as Pamela
1995
- Babe as Fly (voice)
- Balto as Grandma Rosy
- Cold Comfort Farm as Mrs. Beetle
1994
- Immortal Beloved as Nanette Streicherová
- Moonacre as Old Elspeth
- Liberation as Narrator
1993
- The Age of Innocence as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
- Magic Grandad as Grandma
- The Thief and the Cobbler as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
- Ed and His Dead Mother as Mabel Chilton
- Demonella as Mother
1992
- Terry Wogan's Friday Night as Self
- Stalin as Krupskaya
- Frannie's Turn as Frannie Escobar
- As You Like It as Audrey
1991
- Rugrats as Shirley Finster (voice)
- Dead Again as Hypnotism Patient
- The Butcher's Wife as Gina
- Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)
1990
- Pacific Heights as Realtor
- I Love You to Death as Joey's Mother
- The Fool as Mrs. Bowring
- Old Flames as Nellie
- Orpheus Descending as Vee Talbot
- The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
1989
- Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story as Elsa Maxwell
- Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Mrs. Rajzman
- Unexplained Laughter as Laughter (voice)
1988
- The Play on One as Laughter (voice)
- Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queen Victoria
1987
- Big Muzzy as The Queen (voice)
- A Little Princess as Miss Amelia Minchin
- Little Dorrit as Flora Finching
- Body Contact as Tony's Mother
1986
- Little Shop of Horrors as Dental Nurse
- The Life and Loves of a She-Devil as Nurse Hopkins
- Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
- The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors as Miss N. Shortt
- Scotch & Wry
1985
- Oliver Twist
- The Good Father as Jane Powell
- Morons from Outer Space as Doctor Wallace
1984
- Freud as Baroness von Lieben
- Electric Dreams as Ticket Girl
1983
- Blackadder as Lady Whiteadder
- Yentl as Sarah
- Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti as Narrator (voice)
1982
- Wogan as Self
- Scrubbers as Jones
- Crystal Gazing as Newsreader
1981
- Reds as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
- A Kick Up the Eighties
- The History Man as Melissa Tordoroff
- Take a Letter, Mr Jones as Maria
1980
- The Awakening as Dr. Kadira
- The Apple as Landlady
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Mary Burge
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- Monkey as Narator
- On a Paving Stone Mounted
1977
- Confessions from a Holiday Camp as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
- The Thin End of the Wedge as Veronica
- Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Elephant Ethel
1976
- Kizzy as Mrs Doe
- Plays for Britain as Miriam / Miss Babberton
- The Lifeswappers as Miriam/Miss Babberton
- The Battle of Billy's Pond as Tour Guide
1975
- Angels
- The Girls of Slender Means as Jane Wright
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Naughty Girls as Voice
1974
- Fall of Eagles as Anna Vyrubova
- Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
- On the Game as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1970
- Play for Today as Veronica
1969
- A Nice Girl Like Me as Pensione
- The Ha-Ha as Kathie
1967
- Omnibus
- ITV Playhouse as Kathie
- At the Eleventh Hour
1964
- Theatre 625 as Rita