Miriam Margolyes
Acting
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).
TV Shows(77)
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
Self
2026
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
Self - Presenter
2025
Badjelly
Badjelly (voice)
2025
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
Self
2024
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
Self
2023
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
Self
2023
Dog Squad
Sylvie (voice)
2022
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
Self - Host
2022
Remembers…
Self
2022
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
Self
2021
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
Narrator
2021
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
Self - Host
2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
Self - Presenter
2020
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
Herself
2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
Herself - Presenter
2019
Apple & Onion
Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
2018
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
Herself
2018
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self
2017
Bucket
Mim
2017
The Real Marigold on Tour
Self - Host
2016
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Self
2016
The Real Marigold Hotel
Self
2016
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
Self
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
Plebs
Iona
2013
The Last Leg
Self
2013
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Aunt Prudence
2012
Call the Midwife
Mother Mildred
2012
Trollied
2011
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
The Project
2009
Merlin
Grunhilda
2008
Q&A
Self - Panellist
2008
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Leaf Blathereen (voice)
2007
Kingdom
Henny Leach
2007
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
Joyce Midge
2006
Dickens in America
Host
2005
American Dad!
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
Mrs. Price-Ridley
2004
Dickens
Catherine Dickens
2002
Family Guy
Right Eyeball (voice)
1999
Vanity Fair
Miss Crawley
1998
Supply and Demand
Edna
1998
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Cook
1997
Dharma & Greg
Chloe
1997
Moonacre
Old Elspeth
1994
Magic Grandad
Grandma
1993
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
Self
1992
Frannie's Turn
Frannie Escobar
1992
Rugrats
Shirley Finster (voice)
1991
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Elsa Maxwell
1989
Big Muzzy
The Queen (voice)
1987
A Little Princess
Miss Amelia Minchin
1987
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Nurse Hopkins
1986
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Oliver Twist
1985
Freud
Baroness von Lieben
1984
Blackadder
Lady Whiteadder
1983
Wogan
Self
1982
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
Maria
1981
The History Man
Melissa Tordoroff
1981
Tales of the Unexpected
Mary Burge
1979
Monkey
Narator
1978
An Audience with...
Self
1978
Plays for Britain
Miriam / Miss Babberton
1976
Kizzy
Mrs Doe
1976
Angels
1975
The Girls of Slender Means
Jane Wright
1975
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Fall of Eagles
Anna Vyrubova
1974
Play for Today
Veronica
1970
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
ITV Playhouse
Kathie
1967
Theatre 625
Rita
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Movies(133)
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
Self
2026
Holy Days
Sister Luke
2026
A Friend of Dorothy
Dorothy
2025
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
self
2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
Narrator (voice)
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
Next to You
Granny Vera
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
My Happy Ending
Judy
2023
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
Self
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
Self
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
Self
2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
Self
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
Self
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
Self
2022
H Is for Happiness
Miss Bamford
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Wings
Audrey
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Prudence Stanley
2020
The Last Artifact
Narrator (UK version)
2020
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Early Man
Queen Oofeefa (voice)
2018
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
Herself
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Mrs. Fisk
2017
The Little Vampire 3D
Wulftrud (voice)
2017
Peter and the Wolf
Narrator
2017
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
Self
2016
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Spirit-ED
Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
2015
Mother
Maria Aponte
2015
The Legend of Longwood
Lady Thyrza
2014
Outlier
Odamee Marshall
2014
Maya the Bee Movie
Queen (voice)
2014
The Seventeenth Kind
Mrs. Mark
2014
Honeysuckle
Patricia
2014
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
When Harry Left Hogwarts
Self
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
We Are Most Amused
Self
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
Self
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Mrs. Kowalski
2008
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
Narrator
2007
The Dukes
Aunt Vee
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Narrator (voice)
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
Narrator
2007
Happy Feet
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
2006
Flushed Away
Rita's Grandma (voice)
2006
Wallis & Edward
Aunt Bessie
2005
Ladies in Lavender
Dorcas
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Peg Sellers
2004
Being Julia
Dolly de Vries
2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
Cook
2004
Modigliani
Gertrude Stein
2004
Chasing Liberty
Maria
2004
Undertaking Betty
Thelma & Selma
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pomona Sprout
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
Mulan
The Matchmaker (voice)
1998
Left Luggage
Mrs. Goldman
1998
The IMAX Nutcracker
Sugar Plum
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
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
Stalin
Krupskaya
1992
As You Like It
Audrey
1992
The Butcher's Wife
Gina
1991
Dead Again
Hypnotism Patient
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
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
Little Shop of Horrors
Dental Nurse
1986
Scotch & Wry
1986
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
Miss N. Shortt
1986
The Good Father
Jane Powell
1985
Morons from Outer Space
Doctor Wallace
1985
Electric Dreams
Ticket Girl
1984
Yentl
Sarah
1983
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
Narrator (voice)
1983
Scrubbers
Jones
1982
Crystal Gazing
Newsreader
1982
Reds
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
1981
The Apple
Landlady
1980
The Awakening
Dr. Kadira
1980
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
The Thin End of the Wedge
Veronica
1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
Elephant Ethel
1977
The Lifeswappers
Miriam/Miss Babberton
1976
The Battle of Billy's Pond
Tour Guide
1976
Naughty Girls
Voice
1975
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
On the Game
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1974
A Nice Girl Like Me
Pensione
1969
The Ha-Ha
Kathie
1969
Angels in the Asylum