Miriam Margolyes
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Acting Credits
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
Filmography
Holy Days
2026
as Sister Luke
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
as Self
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
as Self
1 in 2
2026
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
as Self
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
as Dorothy
Badjelly
2025
as Badjelly (voice)
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
as Self - Presenter
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
as Narrator (voice)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
as self
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
as Self
Mog's Christmas
2023
as Aunt One (voice)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
My Happy Ending
2023
as Judy
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Next to You
2023
as Granny Vera
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
as Self
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
as Self
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
as Self
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
as Self
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
as Self
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
as Self
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
as Self
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
as Self - Host
Dog Squad
2022
as Sylvie (voice)
Remembers…
2022
as Self
H Is for Happiness
2021
as Miss Bamford
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
as Self
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
as Narrator
The Last Artifact
2020
as Narrator (UK version)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
as Prudence Stanley
Wings
2020
as Audrey
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
as Self - Presenter
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
as Self - Host
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
as Herself - Presenter
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
as Herself
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
as Self
Early Man
2018
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
as Herself
Apple & Onion
2018
as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
as Mrs. Fisk
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
as Herself
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
as Wulftrud (voice)
Peter and the Wolf
2017
as Narrator
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self
Bucket
2017
as Mim
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
as Self
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
as Self
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
as Self - Host
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
as Self
Spirit-ED
2015
as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Mother
2015
as Maria Aponte
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
as Self
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
as Mrs. Mark
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
as Queen (voice)
The Legend of Longwood
2014
as Lady Thyrza
Outlier
2014
as Odamee Marshall
Honeysuckle
2014
as Patricia
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
Plebs
2013
as Iona
The Last Leg
2013
as Self
The Wedding Video
2012
as Patricia
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
Sir Billi
2012
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
The Guilt Trip
2012
as Anita
A Closed Book
2012
as Mrs. Kilbride
Call the Midwife
2012
as Mother Mildred
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
as Aunt Prudence
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Pomona Sprout
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
as Mummy Socks (voice)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
Trollied
2011
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
The Project
2009
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
as Mrs. Kowalski
We Are Most Amused
2008
as Self
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
as Self
Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist
Merlin
2008
as Grunhilda
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Narrator (voice)
The Dukes
2007
as Aunt Vee
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
as Narrator
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007
as Narrator
Kingdom
2007
as Henny Leach
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
as Leaf Blathereen (voice)
Flushed Away
2006
as Rita's Grandma (voice)
Happy Feet
2006
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
as Joyce Midge
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
as Mrs. Joyce Midge
Wallis & Edward
2005
as Aunt Bessie
Dickens in America
2005
as Host
American Dad!
2005
as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
Inconceivable
2005
as Malva
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Peg Sellers
Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Dorcas
Being Julia
2004
as Dolly de Vries
Modigliani
2004
as Gertrude Stein
Chasing Liberty
2004
as Maria
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
as Cook
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Mrs. Price-Ridley
Undertaking Betty
2002
as Thelma & Selma
Alone
2002
as Caseworker
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Pomona Sprout
Dickens
2002
as Catherine Dickens
Cats & Dogs
2001
as Sophie the Castle Maid
In Search of Peace
2001
as Ester Cailingold (voice)
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
House!
2000
as Auntie Beth
End of Days
1999
as Mabel
Sunshine
1999
as Rose Sonnenschein
Magnolia
1999
as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Signora Caldoni
Family Guy
1999
as Right Eyeball (voice)
Mulan
1998
as The Matchmaker (voice)
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
as Fly (voice)
The First Snow of Winter
1998
as Sean McDuck (voice)
Left Luggage
1998
as Mrs. Goldman
Vanity Fair
1998
as Miss Crawley
Supply and Demand
1998
as CS Edna Colley
The Long Way Home
1997
as (voice)
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
as Sugar Plum
Dharma & Greg
1997
as Chloe
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
as Cook
Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Nurse
James and the Giant Peach
1996
as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Different for Girls
1996
as Pamela
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
as Mrs. Beetle
Babe
1995
as Fly (voice)
Balto
1995
as Grandma Rosy
Immortal Beloved
1994
as Nanette Streicherová
Liberation
1994
as Narrator (voice)
Moonacre
1994
as Old Elspeth
The Age of Innocence
1993
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as Mabel Chilton
Demonella
1993
as Mother
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
Magic Grandad
1993
as Grandma
Stalin
1992
as Krupskaya
As You Like It
1992
as Audrey
Frannie's Turn
1992
as Frannie Escobar
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
as Self
Dead Again
1991
as Mrs. Tupper (uncredited)
The Butcher's Wife
1991
as Gina
Echoes That Remain
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Rugrats
1991
as Shirley Finster (voice)
Tonight at 8.30
1991
as Mrs. Wadhurst
Tonight at 8.30
1991
as Nanny
I Love You to Death
1990
as Joey's Mother
Pacific Heights
1990
as Realtor
Orpheus Descending
1990
as Vee Talbot
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
The Fool
1990
as Mrs. Bowring
Old Flames
1990
as Nellie
Unexplained Laughter
1989
as Laughter (voice)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Mrs. Rajzman
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as Elsa Maxwell
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Queen Victoria
The Play on One
1988
as Laughter (voice)
Little Dorrit
1987
as Flora Finching
Body Contact
1987
as Tony's Mother
A Little Princess
1987
as Miss Amelia Minchin
Big Muzzy
1987
as The Queen (voice)
Scotch & Wry
1986
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
as Dental Nurse
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
as Miss N. Shortt
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
as Nurse Hopkins
The Good Father
1985
as Jane Powell
Morons from Outer Space
1985
as Doctor Wallace
Screen Two
1985
as Nellie
Oliver Twist
1985
as Mrs Bumble
Oliver Twist
1985
as Mrs Corney
Electric Dreams
1984
as Ticket Girl
Freud
1984
as Baroness von Lieben
Yentl
1983
as Sarah
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
as Narrator (voice)
Blackadder
1983
as Lady Whiteadder
Blackadder
1983
as Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
Scrubbers
1982
as Jones
Crystal Gazing
1982
as Newsreader
Wogan
1982
as Self
Reds
1981
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
as Maria
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
The History Man
1981
as Melissa Tordoroff
The Awakening
1980
as Dr. Kadira
The Apple
1980
as Landlady
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Mary Burge
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Monkey
1978
as Narator
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
Monkey
1978
as Demon (voice)
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
as Elephant Ethel
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
as Veronica
Childhood
1977
as Mademoiselle
The Lifeswappers
1976
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
as Tour Guide
Kizzy
1976
as Mrs Doe
Plays for Britain
1976
as Miriam / Miss Babberton
Naughty Girls
1975
as Voice
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Angels
1975
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
as Jane Wright
On the Game
1974
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Fall of Eagles
1974
as Anna Vyrubova
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Play for Today
1970
as Veronica
The Ha-Ha
1969
as Kathie
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
as Pensione
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Kathie
Omnibus
1967
Boy Meets Girl
1967
as Maria
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Voice
Theatre 625
1964
as Rita
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self