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