Miriam Margolyes
Birthdate
May 18, 1941 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Details
Birthdate
May 18, 1941 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Known For
Acting
Biography
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).
Miriam Margolyes's LGBTQ+ Titles
Different for Girls
Pamela
Acting (193)
Badjelly as Badjelly (voice) (13 episodes)
Holy Days
2024
Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure as Self - Presenter (3 episodes)
2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved as Narrator (voice)
2024
Doctor Who as The Meep (voice) (1 episode)
2024
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian as Self (3 episodes)
2024
How To Make It In Comedy
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
Next to You as Granny Vera
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Narrator (voice)
2023
My Happy Ending as Judy
2023
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer as Self (2 episodes)
2022
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
2022
Dog Squad as Sylvie (voice) (36 episodes)
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
2022
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked as Self - Host (3 episodes)
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure as Self
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Self
2021
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland as Self (7 episodes)
2021
H Is for Happiness as Miss Bamford
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership as Narrator (3 episodes)
2020
Wings as Audrey
2020
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian as Self - Host (3 episodes)
2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure as Self - Presenter (2 episodes)
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears as Prudence Stanley
2020
The Last Artifact as Narrator (UK version)
2019
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter as Herself (1 episode)
2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure as Herself - Presenter (2 episodes)
2018
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Apple & Onion as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice) (1 episode)
2018
Early Man as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
2018
Miriam’s Big American Adventure as Herself (3 episodes)
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 (1 episode)
2017
Bucket as Mim (4 episodes)
2016
The Real Marigold on Tour as Host (Herself) (10 episodes)
2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book as Self
2016
John Bishop: In Conversation With... as Self (1 episode)
2016
The Real Marigold Hotel as Self (3 episodes)
2015
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Spirit-ED as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
2015
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering as Self (1 episode)
2014
The Legend of Longwood
2014
Outlier
2014
Maya the Bee Movie as The Queen (voice)
2014
The Seventeenth Kind as Mrs. Mark
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self (1 episode)
2014
Honeysuckle as Patricia
2013
Plebs as Iona (1 episode)
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 (1 episode)
2012
The Last Leg as Self (1 episode)
2012
The Wedding Video as Patricia
2012
A Closed Book as Mrs. Kilbride
2012
Sir Billi as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
2012
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries as Aunt Prudence (12 episodes)
2012
Honest Trailers as Pomona Sprout (archive footage) (1 episode)
2012
Call the Midwife as Mother Mildred (4 episodes)
2012
Call the Midwife as Sister Mildred (1 episode)
2011
When Harry Left Hogwarts as Self
2011
Trollied (8 episodes)
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 (52 episodes)
2008
We Are Most Amused as Self
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Mrs. Kowalski
2008
Merlin as Grunhilda (1 episode)
2008
Q&A as Self - Panellist (1 episode)
2007
The Dukes as Aunt Vee
2007
Kingdom as Henny Leach (1 episode)
2007
The Graham Norton Show as Self (11 episodes)
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Narrator (voice)
2007
What the Pythons Did Next... as Narrator
2006
Jam and Jerusalem as Joyce Midge (13 episodes)
2006
Happy Feet as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
2006
Flushed Away as Rita's Grandma (voice)
2005
Wallis & Edward as Aunt Bessie
2005
Dickens in America as Host (10 episodes)
2005
American Dad! as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice) (1 episode)
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Mrs. Price-Ridley (1 episode)
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
2002
Dickens (3 episodes)
2002
Alone as Caseworker
2001
In Search of Peace as Ester Cailingold (voice)
2001
Cats & Dogs as Sophie the Castle Maid
2001
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2000
House! as Auntie Beth
1999
Magnolia as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
1999
End of Days as Mabel
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Signora Caldoni
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 (6 episodes)
1998
Supply and Demand as Edna (6 episodes)
1998
Mulan as The Matchmaker (voice)
1997
The IMAX Nutcracker as Sugar Plum
1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet as Cook (6 episodes)
1997
Dharma & Greg as Chloe (1 episode)
1997
The Long Way Home as (voice)
1996
Romeo + Juliet as Nurse
1996
Different for Girls as Pamela
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
1994
Moonacre as Old Elspeth (6 episodes)
1994
Liberation as Narrator
1993
The Thief and the Cobbler as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
1993
The Age of Innocence as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother as Mabel Chilton
1993
Demonella as Mother
1993
Magic Grandad as Grandma (3 episodes)
1992
Stalin as Krupskaya
1992
Terry Wogan's Friday Night as Self (1 episode)
1992
As You Like It as Audrey
1992
Frannie's Turn as Frannie Escobar (6 episodes)
1991
The Butcher's Wife as Gina
1991
Dead Again as Hypnotism Patient
1991
Rugrats as Shirley Finster (voice) (1 episode)
1991
Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)
1990
The Fool as Mrs. Bowring
1990
Pacific Heights as Realtor
1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
1990
Orpheus Descending as Vee Talbot
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 (6 episodes)
1989
Unexplained Laughter as Laughter (voice)
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story as Mrs. Rajzman
1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol as Queen Victoria
1987
Little Dorrit as Flora Finching
1987
Body Contact as Tony's Mother
1987
A Little Princess as Miss Amelia (6 episodes)
1986
Little Shop of Horrors as Dental Nurse
1986
Scotch & Wry
1986
Muzzy in Gondoland as The Queen (voice) (6 episodes)
1986
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures (3 episodes)
1985
The Good Father as Jane Powell
1985
Oliver Twist (4 episodes)
1985
Morons from Outer Space as Doctor Wallace
1984
Freud as Baroness von Lieben (6 episodes)
1984
Electric Dreams as Ticket Girl
1983
Yentl as Sarah
1983
Blackadder as Lady Whiteadder (1 episode)
1983
Blackadder as Queen Victoria (1 episode)
1983
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti as (voice)
1982
The Comic Strip Presents... as Mother (1 episode)
1982
Scrubbers as Jones
1982
Wogan as Self (1 episode)
1981
Reds as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
1981
A Kick Up the Eighties (10 episodes)
1981
Take a Letter, Mr. Jones (6 episodes)
1981
The History Man as Melissa Tordoroff (4 episodes)
1980
The Apple as Landlady
1980
The Awakening as Dr. Kadira
1979
Tales of the Unexpected as Mary Burge (1 episode)
1978
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Monkey as Narator (52 episodes)
1978
An Audience with... as Self (1 episode)
1977
The Thin End of the Wedge as Veronica
1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Elephant Ethel
1976
The Lifeswappers as Miriam/Miss Babberton
1976
Kizzy (6 episodes)
1976
The Battle of Billy's Pond as Tour Guide
1975
Naughty Girls as Voice
1975
Angels (2 episodes)
1975
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
The Girls of Slender Means as Jane Wright (3 episodes)
1974
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter (19 episodes)
1974
Fall of Eagles as Anna Vyrubova (1 episode)
1974
On the Game as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1970
Play for Today as Veronica (1 episode)
1969
A Nice Girl Like Me as Pensione
1969
The Ha-Ha as Kathie
1967
At the Eleventh Hour (10 episodes)
Creator (1)
2021
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
• Creator