Miriam Margolyes
May 18, 1941 (83 years old) in Oxford, England, UK
Miriam Margoyles OBE (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
Credits
- 2024 · Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure as Self - Presenter
- 2024 · How To Make It In Comedy as
- 2023 · Next to You as Granny Vera
- 2023 · Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · My Happy Ending as Judy
- 2022 · The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
- 2021 · Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self
- 2021 · H Is for Happiness as Miss Bamford
- 2021 · Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership as Narrator
- 2020 · Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian as Self - Host
- 2020 · The Last Artifact as Narrator (UK version)
- 2016 · The Real Marigold on Tour as Host (Herself)
- 2014 · The Legend of Longwood as
- 2012 · The Wedding Video as Patricia
- 2012 · A Closed Book as Mrs. Kilbride
- 2011 · When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
- 2008 · Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
- 2007 · The Dukes as Aunt Vee
- 2007 · The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · What the Pythons Did Next... as Narrator
- 2005 · Dickens in America as Host
- 2002 · Dickens as
- 2002 · Alone as Caseworker
- 2001 · In Search of Peace as Ester Cailingold (voice)
- 2000 · House! as Auntie Beth
- 1999 · Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Signora Caldoni
- 1997 · The Phoenix and the Carpet as Cook
- 1997 · The Long Way Home as (voice)
- 1996 · Different for Girls as Pamela
- 1994 · Moonacre as Old Elspeth
- 1994 · Liberation as Narrator
- 1993 · Ed and His Dead Mother as Mabel Chilton
- 1992 · Frannie's Turn as Frannie Escobar
- 1991 · Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · The Fool as Mrs. Bowring
- 1990 · The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
- 1990 · Orpheus Descending as Vee Talbot
- 1988 · Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queen Victoria
- 1987 · Body Contact as Tony's Mother
- 1987 · A Little Princess as Miss Amelia
- 1986 · Scotch & Wry as
- 1981 · The History Man as Melissa Tordoroff
- 1977 · Confessions from a Holiday Camp as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
- 1976 · Kizzy as
- 1975 · The Girls of Slender Means as Jane Wright
- 1974 · Ken Dodd's World of Laughter as
- Future · Badjelly as Badjelly (voice)
- 2024 · The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 · Doctor Who as The Meep (voice)
- 2024 · Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian as Self
- 2023 · Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
- 2023 · Mog's Christmas as Aunt One (voice)
- 2023 · Hilda: The Fairy Isle as Astrid
- 2023 · Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer as Self
- 2022 · Miriam's Dickensian Christmas as
- 2022 · David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
- 2022 · Dog Squad as Sylvie (voice)
- 2022 · Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked as Self - Host
- 2022 · Judi Dench: Our National Treasure as Self
- 2022 · imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Self
- 2021 · Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall as
- 2020 · Wings as Audrey
- 2020 · Miriam's Big Fat Adventure as Self - Presenter
- 2020 · Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears as Prudence Stanley
- 2019 · Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter as Herself
- 2019 · Miriam's Dead Good Adventure as Herself - Presenter
- 2018 · Postcards from the 48% as
- 2018 · Apple & Onion as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
- 2018 · Early Man as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
- 2018 · Miriam’s Big American Adventure as Herself
- 2017 · Harry Potter: A History Of Magic as Herself
- 2017 · The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mrs. Fisk
- 2017 · The Little Vampire 3D as Wulftrud (voice)
- 2017 · Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- 2017 · Bucket as Mim
- 2016 · Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book as Self
- 2016 · John Bishop: In Conversation With... as Self
- 2016 · The Real Marigold Hotel as Self
- 2015 · The Importance of Being Miriam as
- 2015 · Spirit-ED as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
- 2015 · The Weekly with Charlie Pickering as Self
- 2014 · Outlier as
- 2014 · Maya the Bee Movie as The Queen (voice)
- 2014 · The Seventeenth Kind as Mrs. Mark
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · Honeysuckle as Patricia
- 2013 · Plebs as Iona
- 2012 · The Guilt Trip as Anita
- 2012 · The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
- 2012 · The Last Leg as Herself
- 2012 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Sir Billi as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
- 2012 · Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Aunt Prudence
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Pomona Sprout (archive footage)
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Mother Mildred
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Sister Mildred
- 2011 · Trollied as
- 2011 · Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Pomona Sprout
- 2011 · The Itch of the Golden Nit as Mummy Socks (voice)
- 2010 · Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
- 2010 · Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga as
- 2008 · We Are Most Amused as Self
- 2008 · How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Mrs. Kowalski
- 2008 · Merlin as Grunhilda
- 2008 · Q&A as Self - Panellist
- 2007 · Kingdom as Henny Leach
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Jam and Jerusalem as Joyce Midge
- 2006 · Happy Feet as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
- 2006 · Flushed Away as Rita's Grandma (voice)
- 2005 · Wallis & Edward as Aunt Bessie
- 2005 · American Dad! as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Price-Ridley
- 2004 · Ladies in Lavender as Dorcas
- 2004 · The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Peg Sellers
- 2004 · Being Julia as Dolly de Vries
- 2004 · Modigliani as Gertrude Stein
- 2004 · Chasing Liberty as Maria
- 2002 · Undertaking Betty as Thelma & Selma
- 2002 · Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Pomona Sprout
- 2001 · Cats & Dogs as Sophie the Castle Maid
- 2001 · Not Afraid, Not Afraid as
- 1999 · Magnolia as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
- 1999 · End of Days as Mabel
- 1999 · Sunshine as Rose Sonnenschein
- 1998 · The First Snow of Winter as Sean McDuck (voice)
- 1998 · Babe: Pig in the City as Fly (voice)
- 1998 · Vanity Fair as Miss Crawley
- 1998 · Supply and Demand as Edna
- 1998 · Mulan as The Matchmaker (voice)
- 1997 · The IMAX Nutcracker as Sugar Plum
- 1997 · Dharma & Greg as Chloe
- 1996 · Romeo + Juliet as Nurse
- 1996 · James and the Giant Peach as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
- 1995 · Balto as Grandma Rosy
- 1995 · Babe as Fly (voice)
- 1995 · Cold Comfort Farm as Mrs. Beetle
- 1994 · Immortal Beloved as Nanette Streicherová
- 1993 · The Thief and the Cobbler as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
- 1993 · The Age of Innocence as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
- 1993 · Demonella as Mother
- 1993 · Magic Grandad as Grandma
- 1992 · Stalin as Krupskaya
- 1992 · Terry Wogan's Friday Night as Self
- 1992 · As You Like It as Audrey
- 1991 · The Butcher's Wife as Gina
- 1991 · Dead Again as Hypnotism Patient
- 1991 · Rugrats as Shirley Finster (voice)
- 1990 · Pacific Heights as Realtor
- 1990 · I Love You to Death as Joey's Mother
- 1990 · Old Flames as Nellie
- 1989 · Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story as Elsa Maxwell
- 1989 · Unexplained Laughter as Laughter (voice)
- 1989 · Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Mrs. Rajzman
- 1987 · Little Dorrit as Flora Finching
- 1986 · Little Shop of Horrors as Dental Nurse
- 1986 · Muzzy in Gondoland as The Queen (voice)
- 1986 · Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures as
- 1985 · The Good Father as Jane Powell
- 1985 · Oliver Twist as
- 1985 · Morons from Outer Space as Doctor Wallace
- 1984 · Freud as Baroness von Lieben
- 1984 · Electric Dreams as Ticket Girl
- 1983 · Yentl as Sarah
- 1983 · Blackadder as Lady Whiteadder
- 1983 · Blackadder as Queen Victoria
- 1983 · Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti as (voice)
- 1982 · The Comic Strip Presents... as Mother
- 1982 · Scrubbers as Jones
- 1982 · Wogan as Self
- 1981 · Reds as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
- 1981 · A Kick Up the Eighties as
- 1981 · Take a Letter, Mr. Jones as
- 1980 · The Apple as Landlady
- 1980 · The Awakening as Dr. Kadira
- 1979 · Tales of the Unexpected as Mary Burge
- 1978 · On a Paving Stone Mounted as
- 1978 · Monkey as Narator
- 1978 · An Audience with... as Self
- 1977 · The Thin End of the Wedge as Veronica
- 1977 · Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Elephant Ethel
- 1976 · The Lifeswappers as Miriam/Miss Babberton
- 1976 · The Battle of Billy's Pond as Tour Guide
- 1975 · Naughty Girls as Voice
- 1975 · Angels as
- 1975 · Rime of the Ancient Mariner as
- 1974 · Fall of Eagles as Anna Vyrubova
- 1974 · On the Game as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1970 · Play for Today as Veronica
- 1969 · A Nice Girl Like Me as Pensione
- 1969 · The Ha-Ha as Kathie
- 1967 · At the Eleventh Hour as
- Future · Holy Days as