6.6Acting
Miriam Margolyes
- Born
- 1941-05-18
- Birthplace
- Oxford, 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
Filmography
222 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
1 in 2
2026 · Movie
Cast
Holy Days
2026 · Movie
Sister Luke
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026 · Movie
Self
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026 · TV Show
Self
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026 · Movie
Self
A Friend of Dorothy
2025 · Movie
Dorothy
Badjelly
2025 · TV Show
Badjelly (voice)
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025 · Movie
Cast
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025 · TV Show
Self - Presenter
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024 · Movie
self
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024 · TV Show
Self
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023 · Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023 · Movie
The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023 · TV Show
Self
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023 · TV Show
Self
Mog's Christmas
2023 · Movie
Aunt One (voice)
My Happy Ending
2023 · Movie
Judy
Next to You
2023 · Movie
Granny Vera
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022 · Movie
Self
Dog Squad
2022 · TV Show
Sylvie (voice)
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022 · Movie
Self
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022 · Movie
Self
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022 · TV Show
Self - Host
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022 · Movie
Self
Remembers…
2022 · TV Show
Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022 · Movie
Self
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022 · Movie
Self
H Is for Happiness
2021 · Movie
Miss Bamford
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021 · Movie
Cast
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021 · TV Show
Self
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021 · TV Show
Narrator · Creator
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020 · TV Show
Self - Host
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020 · TV Show
Self - Presenter
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020 · Movie
Prudence Stanley
The Last Artifact
2020 · Movie
Narrator (UK version)
Wings
2020 · Movie
Audrey
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019 · TV Show
Herself
Let's Talk About Sex
2019 · TV Show
Self
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019 · TV Show
Herself - Presenter
Apple & Onion
2018 · TV Show
Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
Early Man
2018 · Movie
Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018 · TV Show
Herself
Postcards from the 48%
2018 · Movie
Cast
Bucket
2017 · TV Show
Mim
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017 · Movie
Herself
Peter and the Wolf
2017 · Movie
Narrator
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017 · TV Show
Self
The Little Vampire 3D
2017 · Movie
Wulftrud (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · Movie
Mrs. Fisk
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016 · TV Show
Self
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016 · Movie
Self
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016 · TV Show
Self
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016 · TV Show
Self - Host
Mother
2015 · Movie
Maria Aponte
Spirit-ED
2015 · Movie
Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015 · Movie
Cast
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015 · TV Show
Self
Honeysuckle
2014 · Movie
Patricia
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV Show
Self - Guest
Maya the Bee Movie
2014 · Movie
Queen (voice)
Outlier
2014 · Movie
Odamee Marshall
The Legend of Longwood
2014 · Movie
Lady Thyrza
The Seventeenth Kind
2014 · Movie
Mrs. Mark
Plebs
2013 · TV Show
Iona
The Last Leg
2013 · TV Show
Self
A Closed Book
2012 · Movie
Mrs. Kilbride
Call the Midwife
2012 · TV Show
Mother Mildred
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 · TV Show
Aunt Prudence
Sir Billi
2012 · Movie
Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012 · Movie
Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
The Guilt Trip
2012 · Movie
Anita
The Wedding Video
2012 · Movie
Patricia
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · Movie
Pomona Sprout
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011 · Movie
Mummy Socks (voice)
Trollied
2011 · TV Show
Cast
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011 · Movie
Self
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · Movie
Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010 · TV Show
Cast
The Project
2009 · TV Show
Cast
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008 · Movie
Self
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · Movie
Mrs. Kowalski
Merlin
2008 · TV Show
Grunhilda
Q&A
2008 · TV Show
Self - Panellist
We Are Most Amused
2008 · Movie
Self
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007 · Movie
Narrator
Kingdom
2007 · TV Show
Henny Leach
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Dukes
2007 · Movie
Aunt Vee
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV Show
Self
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007 · TV Show
Leaf Blathereen (voice)
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007 · Movie
Narrator
Flushed Away
2006 · Movie
Rita's Grandma (voice)
Happy Feet
2006 · Movie
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · TV Show
Joyce Midge · Mrs. Joyce Midge
American Dad!
2005 · TV Show
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
Dickens in America
2005 · TV Show
Host
Inconceivable
2005 · TV Show
Malva
Wallis & Edward
2005 · Movie
Aunt Bessie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV Show
Mrs. Price-Ridley
Being Julia
2004 · Movie
Dolly de Vries
Chasing Liberty
2004 · Movie
Maria
Ladies in Lavender
2004 · Movie
Dorcas
Modigliani
2004 · Movie
Gertrude Stein
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 · Movie
Peg Sellers
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004 · Movie
Cook
Alone
2002 · Movie
Caseworker
Dickens
2002 · TV Show
Catherine Dickens
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · Movie
Pomona Sprout
Undertaking Betty
2002 · Movie
Thelma & Selma
Cats & Dogs
2001 · Movie
Sophie the Castle Maid
In Search of Peace
2001 · Movie
Ester Cailingold (voice)
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001 · Movie
Cast
House!
2000 · Movie
Auntie Beth
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · Movie
Signora Caldoni
End of Days
1999 · Movie
Mabel
Family Guy
1999 · TV Show
Right Eyeball (voice)
Magnolia
1999 · Movie
Faye Barringer (uncredited)
Sunshine
1999 · Movie
Rose Sonnenschein
Babe: Pig in the City
1998 · Movie
Fly (voice)
Left Luggage
1998 · Movie
Mrs. Goldman
Mulan
1998 · Movie
The Matchmaker (voice)
Supply and Demand
1998 · TV Show
CS Edna Colley
The First Snow of Winter
1998 · Movie
Sean McDuck (voice)
Vanity Fair
1998 · TV Show
Miss Crawley
Dharma & Greg
1997 · TV Show
Chloe
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997 · Movie
Sugar Plum
The Long Way Home
1997 · Movie
(voice)
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997 · TV Show
Cook
Different for Girls
1996 · Movie
Pamela
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Movie
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · Movie
Nurse
Babe
1995 · Movie
Fly (voice)
Balto
1995 · Movie
Grandma Rosy
Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · Movie
Mrs. Beetle
Immortal Beloved
1994 · Movie
Nanette Streicherová
Liberation
1994 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Moonacre
1994 · TV Show
Old Elspeth
Demonella
1993 · Movie
Mother
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993 · Movie
Mabel Chilton
Magic Grandad
1993 · TV Show
Grandma
The Age of Innocence
1993 · Movie
Mrs. Catherine Mingott
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993 · Movie
Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
As You Like It
1992 · Movie
Audrey
Frannie's Turn
1992 · TV Show
Frannie Escobar
Stalin
1992 · Movie
Krupskaya
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992 · TV Show
Self
Dead Again
1991 · Movie
Mrs. Tupper (uncredited)
Echoes That Remain
1991 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Rugrats
1991 · TV Show
Shirley Finster (voice)
The Butcher's Wife
1991 · Movie
Gina
Tonight at 8.30
1991 · TV Show
Mrs. Wadhurst · Nanny
I Love You to Death
1990 · Movie
Joey's Mother
Old Flames
1990 · Movie
Nellie
Orpheus Descending
1990 · Movie
Vee Talbot
Pacific Heights
1990 · Movie
Realtor
The Fool
1990 · Movie
Mrs. Bowring
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990 · Movie
Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · Movie
Mrs. Rajzman
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989 · TV Show
Elsa Maxwell
Unexplained Laughter
1989 · Movie
Laughter (voice)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 · Movie
Queen Victoria
The Play on One
1988 · TV Show
Laughter (voice)
A Little Princess
1987 · TV Show
Miss Amelia Minchin
Big Muzzy
1987 · TV Show
The Queen (voice)
Body Contact
1987 · Movie
Tony's Mother
Little Dorrit
1987 · Movie
Flora Finching
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986 · TV Show
Cast
Little Shop of Horrors
1986 · Movie
Dental Nurse
Scotch & Wry
1986 · Movie
Cast
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986 · TV Show
Nurse Hopkins
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986 · Movie
Miss N. Shortt
Morons from Outer Space
1985 · Movie
Doctor Wallace
Oliver Twist
1985 · TV Show
Mrs Bumble · Mrs Corney
Screen Two
1985 · TV Show
Nellie
The Good Father
1985 · Movie
Jane Powell
Electric Dreams
1984 · Movie
Ticket Girl
Freud
1984 · TV Show
Baroness von Lieben
Blackadder
1983 · TV Show
Lady Whiteadder · Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983 · Movie
Narrator (voice)
Yentl
1983 · Movie
Sarah
Crystal Gazing
1982 · Movie
Newsreader
Scrubbers
1982 · Movie
Jones
Wogan
1982 · TV Show
Self
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981 · TV Show
Cast
Reds
1981 · Movie
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981 · TV Show
Maria
The History Man
1981 · TV Show
Melissa Tordoroff
The Apple
1980 · Movie
Landlady
The Awakening
1980 · Movie
Dr. Kadira
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · TV Show
Mary Burge
An Audience with...
1978 · TV Show
Self
Monkey
1978 · TV Show
Narator · Demon (voice)
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978 · Movie
Cast
Childhood
1977 · TV Show
Mademoiselle
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977 · Movie
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977 · Movie
Elephant Ethel
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977 · Movie
Veronica
Kizzy
1976 · TV Show
Mrs Doe
Plays for Britain
1976 · TV Show
Miriam / Miss Babberton
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976 · Movie
Tour Guide
The Lifeswappers
1976 · Movie
Miriam/Miss Babberton
Angels
1975 · TV Show
Cast
Naughty Girls
1975 · Movie
Voice
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975 · Movie
Cast
The Girls of Slender Means
1975 · TV Show
Jane Wright
Fall of Eagles
1974 · TV Show
Anna Vyrubova
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974 · TV Show
Cast
On the Game
1974 · Movie
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Play for Today
1970 · TV Show
Veronica
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969 · Movie
Pensione
The Ha-Ha
1969 · Movie
Kathie
At the Eleventh Hour
1967 · TV Show
Cast
Boy Meets Girl
1967 · TV Show
Maria
ITV Playhouse
1967 · TV Show
Kathie
Omnibus
1967 · TV Show
Cast
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · TV Show
Voice
Theatre 625
1964 · TV Show
Rita
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · TV Show
Self
Angels in the Asylum
Date unknown · Movie
Cast
Gods of Tennis
Date unknown · Movie
Herself
Heart of Darkness
Date unknown · Movie
The Aunt