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