Miriam Margolyes
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
- Acting
- Born
- May 18, 1941 · 85 years old
- Place of birth
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
- Gender
- Female
- Credits
- 222 as cast · 1 as crew
- Best known for
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- Popularity
- 2.3
1 in 2
2026
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
Self2026
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
Self2026
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
Self2026
Holy Days
Sister Luke2026
A Friend of Dorothy
Dorothy2025
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
Self - Presenter2025
Badjelly
Badjelly (voice)2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Narrator (voice)2024
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
Self2024
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
The Meep (voice) (archive footage)2023
Mog's Christmas
Aunt One (voice)2023
Next to You
Granny Vera2023
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
Self2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Self - Narrator (voice)2023
My Happy Ending
Judy2023
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
Self2023
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
Self2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self2022
Dog Squad
Sylvie (voice)2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Self2022
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
Self - Host2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Self2022
Remembers…
Self2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Self2022
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
Self2021
H Is for Happiness
Miss Bamford2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
Narrator2021
Wings
Audrey2020
The Last Artifact
Narrator (UK version)2020
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
Self - Host2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
Self - Presenter2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Prudence Stanley2020
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
Herself2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
Herself - Presenter2019
Let's Talk About Sex
Self2019
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Apple & Onion
Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)2018
Early Man
Queen Oofeefa (voice)2018
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
Herself2018
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Herself2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Mrs. Fisk2017
The Little Vampire 3D
Wulftrud (voice)2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self2017
Bucket
Mim2017
Peter and the Wolf
Narrator2017
The Real Marigold on Tour
Self - Host2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Self2016
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Self2016
The Real Marigold Hotel
Self2016
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Spirit-ED
Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup2015
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Self2015
Mother
Maria Aponte2015
The Legend of Longwood
Lady Thyrza2014
Outlier
Odamee Marshall2014
Maya the Bee Movie
Queen (voice)2014
The Seventeenth Kind
Mrs. Mark2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest2014
Honeysuckle
Patricia2014
Plebs
Iona2013
The Last Leg
Self2013
The Guilt Trip
Anita2012
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)2012
The Wedding Video
Patricia2012
A Closed Book
Mrs. Kilbride2012
Sir Billi
Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)2012
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Aunt Prudence2012
Call the Midwife
Mother Mildred2012
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self2011
Trollied
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Pomona Sprout2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
Mummy Socks (voice)2011
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Mrs. Plithiver (voice)2010
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
The Project
2009
We Are Most Amused
Self2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Mrs. Kowalski2008
Merlin
Grunhilda2008
Q&A
Self - Panellist2008
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Leaf Blathereen (voice)2007
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
Narrator2007
The Dukes
Aunt Vee2007
Kingdom
Henny Leach2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Narrator (voice)2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
Narrator2007
Jam and Jerusalem
Joyce Midge2006
Happy Feet
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)2006
Flushed Away
Rita's Grandma (voice)2006
Wallis & Edward
Aunt Bessie2005
Inconceivable
Malva2005
Dickens in America
Host2005
American Dad!
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs. Price-Ridley2004
Ladies in Lavender
Dorcas2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Peg Sellers2004
Being Julia
Dolly de Vries2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Cook2004
Modigliani
Gertrude Stein2004
Chasing Liberty
Maria2004
Undertaking Betty
Thelma & Selma2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pomona Sprout2002
Dickens
Catherine Dickens2002
Alone
Caseworker2002
In Search of Peace
Ester Cailingold (voice)2001
Cats & Dogs
Sophie the Castle Maid2001
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
House!
Auntie Beth2000
Magnolia
Faye Barringer (uncredited)1999
End of Days
Mabel1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Signora Caldoni1999
Sunshine
Rose Sonnenschein1999
Family Guy
Right Eyeball (voice)1999
The First Snow of Winter
Sean McDuck (voice)1998
Babe: Pig in the City
Fly (voice)1998
Vanity Fair
Miss Crawley1998
Supply and Demand
CS Edna Colley1998
Mulan
The Matchmaker (voice)1998
Left Luggage
Mrs. Goldman1998
The IMAX Nutcracker
Sugar Plum1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Cook1997
Dharma & Greg
Chloe1997
The Long Way Home
(voice)1997
Romeo + Juliet
Nurse1996
Different for Girls
Pamela1996
James and the Giant Peach
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)1996
Balto
Grandma Rosy1995
Babe
Fly (voice)1995
Cold Comfort Farm
Mrs. Beetle1995
Immortal Beloved
Nanette Streicherová1994
Moonacre
Old Elspeth1994
Liberation
Narrator (voice)1994
The Thief and the Cobbler
Maiden from Mombassa (voice)1993
The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Catherine Mingott1993
Ed and His Dead Mother
Mabel Chilton1993
Demonella
Mother1993
Magic Grandad
Grandma1993
Stalin
Krupskaya1992
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
Self1992
As You Like It
Audrey1992
Frannie's Turn
Frannie Escobar1992
The Butcher's Wife
Gina1991
Dead Again
Mrs. Tupper (uncredited)1991
Rugrats
Shirley Finster (voice)1991
Echoes That Remain
Narrator (voice)1991
Tonight at 8.30
Mrs. Wadhurst1991
The Fool
Mrs. Bowring1990
Pacific Heights
Realtor1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter1990
Orpheus Descending
Vee Talbot1990
I Love You to Death
Joey's Mother1990
Old Flames
Nellie1990
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Elsa Maxwell1989
Unexplained Laughter
Laughter (voice)1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Mrs. Rajzman1989
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Queen Victoria1988
The Play on One
Laughter (voice)1988
Little Dorrit
Flora Finching1987
Body Contact
Tony's Mother1987
Big Muzzy
The Queen (voice)1987
A Little Princess
Miss Amelia Minchin1987
Little Shop of Horrors
Dental Nurse1986
Scotch & Wry
1986
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Nurse Hopkins1986
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
Miss N. Shortt1986
The Good Father
Jane Powell1985
Oliver Twist
Mrs Bumble1985
Morons from Outer Space
Doctor Wallace1985
Screen Two
Nellie1985
Freud
Baroness von Lieben1984
Electric Dreams
Ticket Girl1984
Yentl
Sarah1983
Blackadder
Lady Whiteadder1983
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Narrator (voice)1983
Scrubbers
Jones1982
Crystal Gazing
Newsreader1982
Wogan
Self1982
Reds
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)1981
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
Maria1981
The History Man
Melissa Tordoroff1981
The Apple
Landlady1980
The Awakening
Dr. Kadira1980
Tales of the Unexpected
Mary Burge1979
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Monkey
Narator1978
An Audience with...
Self1978
The Thin End of the Wedge
Veronica1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Elephant Ethel1977
Childhood
Mademoiselle1977
The Lifeswappers
Miriam/Miss Babberton1976
Plays for Britain
Miriam / Miss Babberton1976
Kizzy
Mrs Doe1976
The Battle of Billy's Pond
Tour Guide1976
Naughty Girls
Voice1975
Angels
1975
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
The Girls of Slender Means
Jane Wright1975
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Fall of Eagles
Anna Vyrubova1974
On the Game
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)1974
Play for Today
Veronica1970
A Nice Girl Like Me
Pensione1969
The Ha-Ha
Kathie1969
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
Omnibus
1967
ITV Playhouse
Kathie1967
Boy Meets Girl
Maria1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Voice1965
Theatre 625
Rita1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self1962
Heart of Darkness
The Aunt
Gods of Tennis
Herself
Angels in the Asylum