Miriam Margolyes
Acting1941Oxford, 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
Acting History
Future
2026
Holy Days
as Sister Luke
2025
A Friend of Dorothy
as Dorothy
Badjelly
TVas Badjelly (voice)• 13 eps
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
TVas Self - Presenter• 2 eps
2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
as Narrator (voice)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
TVas Self• 3 eps
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
TVas Self• 1 eps
Remembers…
TVas Self• 1 eps
2023
Mog's Christmas
as Aunt One (voice)
My Happy Ending
as Judy
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Next to You
as Granny Vera
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
TVas Self• 2 eps
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
Dog Squad
TVas Sylvie (voice)• 36 eps
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
TVas Self - Host• 3 eps
2021
H Is for Happiness
as Miss Bamford
Apple & Onion
TVas Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)• 1 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TVas Self• 1 eps
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
TVas Self• 7 eps
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
TVas Narrator• 3 eps
2020
The Last Artifact
as Narrator (UK version)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Prudence Stanley
Wings
as Audrey
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
TVas Self - Presenter• 2 eps
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
TVas Self - Host• 3 eps
2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
TVas Herself - Presenter• 2 eps
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
TVas Herself• 1 eps
Call the Midwife
TVas Mother Mildred• 4 eps
2018
Early Man
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
TVas Herself• 3 eps
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mrs. Fisk
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Herself
The Little Vampire 3D
as Wulftrud (voice)
Peter and the Wolf
as Narrator
The Last Leg
TVas Self• 6 eps
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TVas Self• 1 eps
Bucket
TVas Mim• 4 eps
Family Guy
TVas Right Eyeball (voice)• 1 eps
2016
The Real Marigold on Tour
TVas Host (Herself)• 10 eps
Plebs
TVas Iona• 1 eps
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
TVas Self• 1 eps
The Real Marigold Hotel
TVas Self• 3 eps
2015
2014
Maya the Bee Movie
as Queen (voice)
The Legend of Longwood
as Lady Thyrza
Outlier
as Odamee Marshall
Honeysuckle
as Patricia
The Seventeenth Kind
as Mrs. Mark
2012
The Wedding Video
as Patricia
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
The Guilt Trip
as Anita
A Closed Book
as Mrs. Kilbride
Sir Billi
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
Q&A
TVas Self - Panellist• 1 eps
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
TVas Aunt Prudence• 12 eps
2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Mummy Socks (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Pomona Sprout
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Merlin
TVas Grunhilda• 1 eps
2009
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TVas Leaf Blathereen (voice)• 2 eps
2008
We Are Most Amused
as Self
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Mrs. Kowalski
Kingdom
TVas Henny Leach• 1 eps
2007
The Dukes
as Aunt Vee
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Narrator (voice)
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Narrator
American Dad!
TVas Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)• 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
TVas Self• 12 eps
2006
Flushed Away
as Rita's Grandma (voice)
Happy Feet
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Jam and Jerusalem
TVas Mrs. Joyce Midge• 1 eps
2005
Wallis & Edward
as Aunt Bessie
Dickens in America
TVas Host• 10 eps
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Peg Sellers
Ladies in Lavender
as Dorcas
Modigliani
as Gertrude Stein
Being Julia
as Dolly de Vries
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Cook
Chasing Liberty
as Maria
Agatha Christie's Marple
TVas Mrs. Price-Ridley• 1 eps
2002
Undertaking Betty
as Thelma & Selma
Alone
as Caseworker
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Pomona Sprout
An Audience with...
TVas Self• 1 eps
Dickens
TVas Catherine Dickens• 3 eps
2001
Cats & Dogs
as Sophie the Castle Maid
In Search of Peace
as Ester Cailingold (voice)
Magic Grandad
TVas Grandma• 3 eps
2000
House!
as Auntie Beth
Dharma & Greg
TVas Chloe• 1 eps
1999
End of Days
as Mabel
Sunshine
as Rose Sonnenschein
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Signora Caldoni
Magnolia
as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
1998
The First Snow of Winter
as Sean McDuck (voice)
Mulan
as The Matchmaker (voice)
Babe: Pig in the City
as Fly (voice)
Supply and Demand
TVas Edna• 6 eps
Vanity Fair
TVas Miss Crawley• 3 eps
Rugrats
TVas Shirley Finster (voice)• 1 eps
1997
The Long Way Home
as (voice)
The IMAX Nutcracker
as Sugar Plum
The Phoenix and the Carpet
TVas Cook• 6 eps
1996
James and the Giant Peach
as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Different for Girls
as Pamela
Romeo + Juliet
as Nurse
1995
1994
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Mabel Chilton
Demonella
as Mother
The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
TVas Self• 1 eps
1992
1991
1990
I Love You to Death
as Joey's Mother
Orpheus Descending
as Vee Talbot
The Fool
as Mrs. Bowring
Old Flames
as Nellie
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
Pacific Heights
as Realtor
1989
Unexplained Laughter
as Laughter (voice)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Mrs. Rajzman
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TVas Elsa Maxwell• 6 eps
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Queen Victoria
1987
Little Dorrit
as Flora Finching
Body Contact
as Tony's Mother
A Little Princess
TVas Miss Amelia Minchin• 6 eps
1986
Little Shop of Horrors
as Dental Nurse
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
as Miss N. Shortt
Muzzy in Gondoland
TVas The Queen (voice)• 6 eps
1985
1984
Electric Dreams
as Ticket Girl
Freud
TVas Baroness von Lieben• 3 eps
1983
Yentl
as Sarah
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
as Narrator (voice)
Blackadder
TVas Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain• 1 eps
1982
Scrubbers
as Jones
Crystal Gazing
as Newsreader
1981
Reds
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
TVas Maria• 6 eps
The History Man
TVas Melissa Tordoroff• 3 eps
1980
The Awakening
as Dr. Kadira
The Apple
as Landlady
Tales of the Unexpected
TVas Mary Burge• 1 eps
Monkey
TVas Demon (voice)• 1 eps
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
as Elephant Ethel
The Thin End of the Wedge
as Veronica
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Play for Today
TVas Veronica• 1 eps
1976
The Lifeswappers
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
The Battle of Billy's Pond
as Tour Guide
Kizzy
TVas Mrs Doe• 2 eps
1975
1974
On the Game
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Fall of Eagles
TVas Anna Vyrubova• 1 eps
1969
The Ha-Ha
as Kathie
A Nice Girl Like Me
as Pensione
1965
Theatre 625
TVas Rita• 1 eps