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Miriam Margolyes

Acting · Born 1941-05-18 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK

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