Miriam Margolyes
Born
May 18, 1941 (84 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
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).
Known For

A Friend of Dorothy
Dorothy
2025

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025

Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand
Self - Presenter · (2 episodes)
2025

Badjelly
Badjelly (voice) · (13 episodes)
2025

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
2024

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Narrator (voice)
2024

Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
Self · (3 episodes)
2024
How To Make It In Comedy
2024

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
2023

Mog's Christmas
Aunt One (voice)
2023

Doctor Who: The Star Beast
Meep
2023

Next to You
Granny Vera
2023

Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Self – Narrator (voice)
2023

My Happy Ending
Judy
2023

Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
Self · (2 episodes)
2023

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
Self
2022

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
2022

Dog Squad
Sylvie (voice) · (36 episodes)
2022

The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
2022

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Self
2022

Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
Self - Host · (3 episodes)
2022

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Self
2022

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Self
2022

Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
Self · (7 episodes)
2021

H Is for Happiness
Miss Bamford
2021

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021

Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
Narrator · (3 episodes)
2021

Wings
Audrey
2020

Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
Self - Host · (3 episodes)
2020

Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
Self - Presenter · (2 episodes)
2020

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Prudence Stanley
2020

The Last Artifact
Narrator (UK version)
2020
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
Herself · (1 episode)
2019

Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
Herself - Presenter · (2 episodes)
2019

Postcards from the 48%
2018

Apple & Onion
Queen Victoria Sponge (voice) · (1 episode)
2018

Early Man
Queen Oofeefa (voice)
2018

Miriam’s Big American Adventure
Herself · (3 episodes)
2018

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Herself
2017

The Man Who Invented Christmas
Mrs. Fisk
2017

The Little Vampire 3D
Wulftrud (voice)
2017

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self · (1 episode)
2017

Bucket
Mim · (4 episodes)
2017

The Real Marigold on Tour
Host (Herself) · (10 episodes)
2016

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Self
2016

John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Self · (1 episode)
2016

The Real Marigold Hotel
Self · (3 episodes)
2016
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Spirit-ED
Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
2015

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Mother
Maria Aponte
2015

The Legend of Longwood
Lady Thyrza
2014
Outlier
2014

Maya the Bee Movie
Queen (voice)
2014

The Seventeenth Kind
Mrs. Mark
2014

Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Honeysuckle
Patricia
2014

Plebs
Iona · (1 episode)
2013

The Last Leg
Self · (6 episodes)
2013

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
2012

The Guilt Trip
Anita
2012

The Wedding Video
Patricia
2012

A Closed Book
Mrs. Kilbride
2012

Sir Billi
Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
2012

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Aunt Prudence · (12 episodes)
2012

Honest Trailers
Pomona Sprout (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2012

Call the Midwife
Mother Mildred · (4 episodes)
2012

When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
2011

Trollied
(8 episodes)
2011

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Pomona Sprout
2011

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
(52 episodes)
2010

The Project
(1 episode)
2009

We Are Most Amused
Self
2008

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self
2008

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Mrs. Kowalski
2008

Merlin
Grunhilda · (1 episode)
2008

Q&A
Self - Panellist · (1 episode)
2008

The Sarah Jane Adventures
Leaf Blathereen (voice) · (2 episodes)
2007

The Dukes
Aunt Vee
2007

Kingdom
Henny Leach · (1 episode)
2007

The Graham Norton Show
Self · (11 episodes)
2007

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Narrator (voice)
2007

What the Pythons Did Next...
Narrator
2007

Jam and Jerusalem
Joyce Midge · (13 episodes)
2006

Happy Feet
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
2006

Flushed Away
Rita's Grandma (voice)
2006

Wallis & Edward
Aunt Bessie
2005

Dickens in America
Host · (10 episodes)
2005

American Dad!
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice) · (1 episode)
2005

Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs. Price-Ridley · (1 episode)
2004

Ladies in Lavender
Dorcas
2004

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Peg Sellers
2004

Being Julia
Dolly de Vries
2004

Modigliani
Gertrude Stein
2004

Chasing Liberty
Maria
2004

Undertaking Betty
Thelma & Selma
2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pomona Sprout
2002

Dickens
(3 episodes)
2002

Alone
Caseworker
2002

In Search of Peace
Ester Cailingold (voice)
2001

Cats & Dogs
Sophie the Castle Maid
2001

Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001

House!
Auntie Beth
2000

Magnolia
Faye Barringer (uncredited)
1999

End of Days
Mabel
1999

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Signora Caldoni
1999

Sunshine
Rose Sonnenschein
1999

The First Snow of Winter
Sean McDuck (voice)
1998

Babe: Pig in the City
Fly (voice)
1998

Vanity Fair
Miss Crawley · (6 episodes)
1998

Supply and Demand
Edna · (6 episodes)
1998

Mulan
The Matchmaker (voice)
1998

The IMAX Nutcracker
Sugar Plum
1997

The Phoenix and the Carpet
Cook · (6 episodes)
1997

Dharma & Greg
Chloe · (1 episode)
1997

The Long Way Home
(voice)
1997

Romeo + Juliet
Nurse
1996

Different for Girls
Pamela
1996

James and the Giant Peach
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
1996

Balto
Grandma Rosy
1995

Babe
Fly (voice)
1995

Cold Comfort Farm
Mrs. Beetle
1995

Immortal Beloved
Nanette Streicherová
1994
Moonacre
Old Elspeth · (6 episodes)
1994

Liberation
Narrator
1994

The Thief and the Cobbler
Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
1993

The Age of Innocence
Mrs. Catherine Mingott
1993

Ed and His Dead Mother
Mabel Chilton
1993

Demonella
Mother
1993
Magic Grandad
Grandma · (3 episodes)
1993

Stalin
Krupskaya
1992

As You Like It
Audrey
1992
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
Self · (1 episode)
1992
Frannie's Turn
Frannie Escobar · (6 episodes)
1992

The Butcher's Wife
Gina
1991

Dead Again
Hypnotism Patient
1991

Rugrats
Shirley Finster (voice) · (1 episode)
1991

Echoes That Remain
Narrator (voice)
1991
The Fool
Mrs. Bowring
1990

Pacific Heights
Realtor
1990

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
1990

Orpheus Descending
Vee Talbot
1990

I Love You to Death
Joey's Mother
1990

Old Flames
Nellie
1990

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Elsa Maxwell · (6 episodes)
1989

Unexplained Laughter
Laughter (voice)
1989

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
Mrs. Rajzman
1989

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Queen Victoria
1988

Little Dorrit
Flora Finching
1987

Body Contact
Tony's Mother
1987

A Little Princess
Miss Amelia · (6 episodes)
1987

Little Shop of Horrors
Dental Nurse
1986

Scotch & Wry
1986
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
(3 episodes)
1986

Muzzy in Gondoland
The Queen (voice) · (6 episodes)
1986
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
Miss N. Shortt
1986

The Good Father
Jane Powell
1985

Freud
Baroness von Lieben · (6 episodes)
1984

Blackadder
Lady Whiteadder · (1 episode)
1983

The Comic Strip Presents...
Mother · (1 episode)
1982

Wogan
Self · (1 episode)
1982

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
(6 episodes)
1981

The History Man
Melissa Tordoroff · (4 episodes)
1981

Tales of the Unexpected
Mary Burge · (1 episode)
1979

An Audience with...
Self · (1 episode)
1978

The Thin End of the Wedge
Veronica
1977

Holy Days
Angels in the Asylum

Oliver Twist
(4 episodes)
1985

Morons from Outer Space
Doctor Wallace
1985

Electric Dreams
Ticket Girl
1984

Yentl
Sarah
1983

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
(voice)
1983

Scrubbers
Jones
1982

Reds
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
1981

A Kick Up the Eighties
(10 episodes)
1981

The Apple
Landlady
1980

The Awakening
Dr. Kadira
1980

On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978

Monkey
Narator · (52 episodes)
1978

Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
1977

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Elephant Ethel
1977
The Lifeswappers
Miriam/Miss Babberton
1976

Kizzy
(6 episodes)
1976

The Battle of Billy's Pond
Tour Guide
1976
Naughty Girls
Voice
1975

Angels
(2 episodes)
1975

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975

The Girls of Slender Means
Jane Wright · (3 episodes)
1975

Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
(19 episodes)
1974

Fall of Eagles
Anna Vyrubova · (1 episode)
1974

On the Game
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1974

Play for Today
Veronica · (1 episode)
1970

A Nice Girl Like Me
Pensione
1969
The Ha-Ha
Kathie
1969
At the Eleventh Hour
(10 episodes)
1967