
Miriam Margolyes
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
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).
Known For
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Filmography
Angels in the Asylum
Movie

Heart of Darkness
Movie · as The Aunt

Gods of Tennis
Movie · as Herself

Nightling
Movie · as Mad Marti (voice)

Holy Days
Movie · as Sister Luke

Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
Movie · as Self

They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
Movie · as Self

1 in 2
Movie
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
Movie

A Friend of Dorothy
Movie · as Dorothy

Badjelly
TV · as Badjelly (voice) · 13 eps

Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
TV · as Self - Presenter · 2 eps

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
Movie · as self

Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
TV · as Self · 3 eps

Mog's Christmas
Movie · as Aunt One (voice)

Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)

My Happy Ending
Movie · as Judy

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
Movie · as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Next to You
Movie · as Granny Vera

Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
TV · as Self · 2 eps

Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
TV · as Self · 2 eps

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Movie · as Self

The Fringe, Fame and Me
Movie · as Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Movie · as Self

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
Movie · as Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Movie · as Self

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Movie · as Self

Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
TV · as Self - Host · 3 eps

Dog Squad
TV · as Sylvie (voice) · 36 eps

Remembers…
TV · as Self · 1 ep

H Is for Happiness
Movie · as Miss Bamford

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
Movie

Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
TV · as Self · 7 eps

Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
TV · as Narrator · 3 eps

The Last Artifact
Movie · as Narrator (UK version)

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Movie · as Prudence Stanley

Wings
Movie · as Audrey

Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
TV · as Self - Presenter · 2 eps

Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
TV · as Self - Host · 3 eps

Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
TV · as Herself - Presenter · 2 eps
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
TV · as Herself · 1 ep

Let's Talk About Sex
TV · as Self · 3 eps

Early Man
Movie · as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Postcards from the 48%
Movie

Miriam’s Big American Adventure
TV · as Herself · 3 eps

Apple & Onion
TV · as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice) · 1 ep

The Man Who Invented Christmas
Movie · as Mrs. Fisk

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Movie · as Herself

The Little Vampire 3D
Movie · as Wulftrud (voice)

Peter and the Wolf
Movie · as Narrator

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Bucket
TV · as Mim · 4 eps

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Movie · as Self

The Real Marigold Hotel
TV · as Self · 3 eps

The Real Marigold on Tour
TV · as Self - Host · 10 eps

John Bishop: In Conversation with...
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Spirit-ED
Movie · as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

The Importance of Being Miriam
Movie
Mother
Movie · as Maria Aponte

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Seventeenth Kind
Movie · as Mrs. Mark

Maya the Bee Movie
Movie · as Queen (voice)

The Legend of Longwood
Movie · as Lady Thyrza
Outlier
Movie · as Odamee Marshall
Honeysuckle
Movie · as Patricia

Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

Plebs
TV · as Iona · 1 ep

The Last Leg
TV · as Self · 6 eps

The Wedding Video
Movie · as Patricia

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
Movie · as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

Sir Billi
Movie · as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

The Guilt Trip
Movie · as Anita

A Closed Book
Movie · as Mrs. Kilbride

Call the Midwife
TV · as Mother Mildred · 4 eps

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
TV · as Aunt Prudence · 12 eps

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Movie · as Pomona Sprout

The Itch of the Golden Nit
Movie · as Mummy Socks (voice)

When Harry Left Hogwarts
Movie · as Self

Trollied
TV · 8 eps

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Movie · as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
TV · 52 eps

The Project
TV · 1 ep

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Movie · as Mrs. Kowalski

We Are Most Amused
Movie · as Self

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Movie · as Self

Q&A
TV · as Self - Panellist · 1 ep

Merlin
TV · as Grunhilda · 1 ep

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

The Dukes
Movie · as Aunt Vee

What the Pythons Did Next...
Movie · as Narrator

Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
Movie · as Narrator

Kingdom
TV · as Henny Leach · 1 ep

The Graham Norton Show
TV · as Self · 12 eps

The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV · as Leaf Blathereen (voice) · 2 eps

Flushed Away
Movie · as Rita's Grandma (voice)

Happy Feet
Movie · as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Jam and Jerusalem
TV · as Joyce Midge, Mrs. Joyce Midge

Wallis & Edward
Movie · as Aunt Bessie

Dickens in America
TV · as Host · 10 eps

American Dad!
TV · as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice) · 1 ep

Inconceivable
TV · as Malva · 1 ep

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Movie · as Peg Sellers

Ladies in Lavender
Movie · as Dorcas

Being Julia
Movie · as Dolly de Vries

Modigliani
Movie · as Gertrude Stein

Chasing Liberty
Movie · as Maria

The Phoenix and the Carpet
Movie · as Cook

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Mrs. Price-Ridley · 1 ep

Undertaking Betty
Movie · as Thelma & Selma

Alone
Movie · as Caseworker

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Movie · as Pomona Sprout

Dickens
TV · as Catherine Dickens · 3 eps

Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
TV · as Self · 3 eps

Cats & Dogs
Movie · as Sophie the Castle Maid

In Search of Peace
Movie · as Ester Cailingold (voice)

Not Afraid, Not Afraid
Movie

House!
Movie · as Auntie Beth

End of Days
Movie · as Mabel

Sunshine
Movie · as Rose Sonnenschein

Magnolia
Movie · as Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie · as Signora Caldoni

Family Guy
TV · as Right Eyeball (voice) · 1 ep

Mulan
Movie · as The Matchmaker (voice)

Babe: Pig in the City
Movie · as Fly (voice)

The First Snow of Winter
Movie · as Sean McDuck (voice)

Left Luggage
Movie · as Mrs. Goldman

Vanity Fair
TV · as Miss Crawley · 3 eps

Supply and Demand
TV · as CS Edna Colley · 6 eps

Different for Girls
Movie · as Pamela

The Long Way Home
Movie · as (voice)

The IMAX Nutcracker
Movie · as Sugar Plum

Dharma & Greg
TV · as Chloe · 1 ep

The Phoenix and the Carpet
TV · as Cook · 6 eps

Romeo + Juliet
Movie · as Nurse

James and the Giant Peach
Movie · as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

Cold Comfort Farm
Movie · as Mrs. Beetle

Babe
Movie · as Fly (voice)

Balto
Movie · as Grandma Rosy

Immortal Beloved
Movie · as Nanette Streicherová

Liberation
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Moonacre
TV · as Old Elspeth · 6 eps

The Age of Innocence
Movie · as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

Ed and His Dead Mother
Movie · as Mabel Chilton

Demonella
Movie · as Mother

The Thief and the Cobbler
Movie · as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
Magic Grandad
TV · as Grandma · 3 eps

Stalin
Movie · as Krupskaya

As You Like It
Movie · as Audrey

Frannie's Turn
TV · as Frannie Escobar · 6 eps
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Dead Again
Movie · as Mrs. Tupper (uncredited)

The Butcher's Wife
Movie · as Gina

Echoes That Remain
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Rugrats
TV · as Shirley Finster (voice) · 2 eps

Tonight at 8.30
TV · as Mrs. Wadhurst, Nanny · 1 ep

I Love You to Death
Movie · as Joey's Mother

Pacific Heights
Movie · as Realtor

Orpheus Descending
Movie · as Vee Talbot

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Movie · as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
The Fool
Movie · as Mrs. Bowring

Old Flames
Movie · as Nellie

Unexplained Laughter
Movie · as Laughter (voice)

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Movie · as Mrs. Rajzman

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TV · as Elsa Maxwell · 6 eps

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Movie · as Queen Victoria

The Play on One
TV · as Laughter (voice) · 1 ep

Little Dorrit
Movie · as Flora Finching

Body Contact
Movie · as Tony's Mother

A Little Princess
TV · as Miss Amelia Minchin · 6 eps

Big Muzzy
TV · as The Queen (voice) · 6 eps

Scotch & Wry
Movie

Little Shop of Horrors
Movie · as Dental Nurse

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
Movie · as Miss N. Shortt
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
TV · 3 eps

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
TV · as Nurse Hopkins · 2 eps

The Good Father
Movie · as Jane Powell

Morons from Outer Space
Movie · as Doctor Wallace

Screen Two
TV · as Nellie · 1 ep

Oliver Twist
TV · as Mrs Bumble, Mrs Corney · 3 eps

Electric Dreams
Movie · as Ticket Girl

Freud
TV · as Baroness von Lieben · 3 eps

Yentl
Movie · as Sarah

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Blackadder
TV · as Lady Whiteadder, Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain · 1 ep

Scrubbers
Movie · as Jones

Crystal Gazing
Movie · as Newsreader

Wogan
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Reds
Movie · as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Take a Letter, Mr Jones
TV · as Maria · 6 eps

A Kick Up the Eighties
TV · 10 eps

The History Man
TV · as Melissa Tordoroff · 3 eps

The Awakening
Movie · as Dr. Kadira

The Apple
Movie · as Landlady

Tales of the Unexpected
TV · as Mary Burge · 1 ep

On a Paving Stone Mounted
Movie

Monkey
TV · as Narator, Demon (voice) · 26 eps

An Audience with...
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Movie · as Elephant Ethel

Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Movie · as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

The Thin End of the Wedge
Movie · as Veronica
Childhood
TV · as Mademoiselle · 1 ep

The Lifeswappers
Movie · as Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Battle of Billy's Pond
Movie · as Tour Guide

Kizzy
TV · as Mrs Doe · 2 eps

Plays for Britain
TV · as Miriam / Miss Babberton · 1 ep
Naughty Girls
Movie · as Voice

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Movie

Angels
TV · 2 eps

The Girls of Slender Means
TV · as Jane Wright · 3 eps

On the Game
Movie · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Fall of Eagles
TV · as Anna Vyrubova · 1 ep

Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
TV · 19 eps

Play for Today
TV · as Veronica · 1 ep
The Ha-Ha
Movie · as Kathie

A Nice Girl Like Me
Movie · as Pensione
At the Eleventh Hour
TV · 10 eps

ITV Playhouse
TV · as Kathie · 1 ep

Omnibus
TV · 1 ep

Boy Meets Girl
TV · as Maria · 1 ep

Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Voice · 1 ep

Theatre 625
TV · as Rita · 1 ep

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep


