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