Miriam Margolyes

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1941-05-18 (Age: 85)

Place of Birth

Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK

Miriam Margolyes

Biography

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).

Filmography (132)

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me

⭐ 6.3 Role: Sister Luke

Holy Days

⭐ 7.1 Role: Dorothy

A Friend of Dorothy

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

⭐ 6.0 Role: self

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

How To Make It In Comedy

⭐ 8.8 Role: The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

⭐ 7.3 Role: Aunt One (voice)

Mog's Christmas

⭐ 3.5 Role: Granny Vera

Next to You

⭐ 7.7 Role: Self - Narrator (voice)

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

⭐ 6.6 Role: Judy

My Happy Ending

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

⭐ 10.0 Role: Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

⭐ 0 Role: Self

The Fringe, Fame and Me

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

⭐ 0 Role: Self

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

⭐ 6.4 Role: Miss Bamford

H Is for Happiness

⭐ 7.5 Role: Unknown

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

⭐ 0 Role: Audrey

Wings

⭐ 6.1 Role: Prudence Stanley

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (UK version)

The Last Artifact

⭐ 6.0 Role: Unknown

Postcards from the 48%

⭐ 6.1 Role: Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Early Man

⭐ 7.3 Role: Herself

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

⭐ 6.8 Role: Mrs. Fisk

The Man Who Invented Christmas

⭐ 6.1 Role: Wulftrud (voice)

The Little Vampire 3D

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Peter and the Wolf

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Importance of Being Miriam

⭐ 5.0 Role: Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

Spirit-ED

⭐ 0 Role: Maria Aponte

Mother

⭐ 5.3 Role: Lady Thyrza

The Legend of Longwood

⭐ 0 Role: Odamee Marshall

Outlier

⭐ 6.2 Role: Queen (voice)

Maya the Bee Movie

⭐ 0 Role: Mrs. Mark

The Seventeenth Kind

⭐ 0 Role: Patricia

Honeysuckle

⭐ 6.0 Role: Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

⭐ 5.6 Role: Anita

The Guilt Trip

⭐ 5.5 Role: Patricia

The Wedding Video

⭐ 5.5 Role: Mrs. Kilbride

A Closed Book

⭐ 3.2 Role: Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Sir Billi

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

When Harry Left Hogwarts

⭐ 8.1 Role: Pomona Sprout

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

⭐ 7.7 Role: Mummy Socks (voice)

The Itch of the Golden Nit

⭐ 6.8 Role: Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

We Are Most Amused

⭐ 4.5 Role: Self

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

⭐ 6.0 Role: Mrs. Kowalski

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema

⭐ 5.1 Role: Aunt Vee

The Dukes

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator (voice)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

What the Pythons Did Next...

⭐ 6.2 Role: Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Happy Feet

⭐ 6.3 Role: Rita's Grandma (voice)

Flushed Away

⭐ 5.6 Role: Aunt Bessie

Wallis & Edward

⭐ 6.4 Role: Dorcas

Ladies in Lavender

⭐ 6.6 Role: Peg Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

⭐ 6.4 Role: Dolly de Vries

Being Julia

⭐ 7.0 Role: Cook

The Phoenix and the Carpet

⭐ 7.0 Role: Gertrude Stein

Modigliani

⭐ 6.2 Role: Maria

Chasing Liberty

⭐ 6.1 Role: Thelma & Selma

Undertaking Betty

⭐ 7.7 Role: Pomona Sprout

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

⭐ 5.1 Role: Caseworker

Alone

⭐ 7.0 Role: Ester Cailingold (voice)

In Search of Peace

⭐ 5.4 Role: Sophie the Castle Maid

Cats & Dogs

⭐ 8.0 Role: Unknown

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

⭐ 6.7 Role: Auntie Beth

House!

⭐ 7.7 Role: Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Magnolia

⭐ 6.1 Role: Mabel

End of Days

⭐ 6.4 Role: Signora Caldoni

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

⭐ 6.5 Role: Rose Sonnenschein

Sunshine

⭐ 6.6 Role: Sean McDuck (voice)

The First Snow of Winter

⭐ 5.7 Role: Fly (voice)

Babe: Pig in the City

⭐ 7.9 Role: The Matchmaker (voice)

Mulan

⭐ 6.3 Role: Mrs. Goldman

Left Luggage

⭐ 9.0 Role: Sugar Plum

The IMAX Nutcracker

⭐ 7.1 Role: (voice)

The Long Way Home

⭐ 6.8 Role: Nurse

Romeo + Juliet

⭐ 7.1 Role: Pamela

Different for Girls

⭐ 6.6 Role: Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

⭐ 7.3 Role: Grandma Rosy

Balto

⭐ 6.3 Role: Fly (voice)

Babe

⭐ 6.8 Role: Mrs. Beetle

Cold Comfort Farm

⭐ 7.1 Role: Nanette Streicherová

Immortal Beloved

⭐ 7.9 Role: Narrator

Liberation

⭐ 7.1 Role: Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

The Thief and the Cobbler

⭐ 7.0 Role: Mrs. Catherine Mingott

The Age of Innocence

⭐ 5.5 Role: Mabel Chilton

Ed and His Dead Mother

⭐ 0 Role: Mother

Demonella

⭐ 5.3 Role: Krupskaya

Stalin

⭐ 6.0 Role: Audrey

As You Like It

⭐ 5.7 Role: Gina

The Butcher's Wife

⭐ 6.4 Role: Hypnotism Patient

Dead Again

⭐ 7.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

Echoes That Remain

⭐ 8.0 Role: Mrs. Bowring

The Fool

⭐ 6.3 Role: Realtor

Pacific Heights

⭐ 8.1 Role: Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

⭐ 4.6 Role: Vee Talbot

Orpheus Descending

⭐ 6.4 Role: Joey's Mother

I Love You to Death

⭐ 0 Role: Nellie

Old Flames

⭐ 10.0 Role: Laughter (voice)

Unexplained Laughter

⭐ 5.9 Role: Mrs. Rajzman

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

⭐ 7.6 Role: Queen Victoria

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

⭐ 6.4 Role: Flora Finching

Little Dorrit

⭐ 5.6 Role: Tony's Mother

Body Contact

⭐ 7.0 Role: Dental Nurse

Little Shop of Horrors

⭐ 9.0 Role: Unknown

Scotch & Wry

⭐ 0 Role: Miss N. Shortt

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

⭐ 5.6 Role: Jane Powell

The Good Father

⭐ 4.8 Role: Doctor Wallace

Morons from Outer Space

⭐ 6.3 Role: Ticket Girl

Electric Dreams

⭐ 6.7 Role: Sarah

Yentl

⭐ 6.2 Role: Narrator (voice)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

⭐ 5.2 Role: Jones

Scrubbers

⭐ 7.0 Role: Newsreader

Crystal Gazing

⭐ 6.9 Role: Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Reds

⭐ 4.5 Role: Landlady

The Apple

⭐ 5.5 Role: Dr. Kadira

The Awakening

⭐ 9.0 Role: Unknown

On a Paving Stone Mounted

⭐ 0 Role: Veronica

The Thin End of the Wedge

⭐ 5.0 Role: Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

⭐ 4.6 Role: Elephant Ethel

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

⭐ 0 Role: Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Lifeswappers

⭐ 7.5 Role: Tour Guide

The Battle of Billy's Pond

⭐ 0 Role: Voice

Naughty Girls

⭐ 7.5 Role: Unknown

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

⭐ 3.7 Role: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

On the Game

⭐ 7.0 Role: Pensione

A Nice Girl Like Me

⭐ 0 Role: Kathie

The Ha-Ha