Birthday
1941/05/18 (83 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Also know as
Miriam Margolyes, OBE
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).
(1996) Romeo + Juliet
as Nurse
(2007) The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Narrator (voice)
(1996) James and the Giant Peach
as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
(1990) I Love You to Death
as Joey's Mother
(2004) The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Peg Sellers
(1998) Mulan
as The Matchmaker (voice)
(2020) The Last Artifact
as Narrator (UK version)
(1993) The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
(1990) Pacific Heights
as Realtor
(2002) Undertaking Betty
as Thelma & Selma
(1986) Scotch & Wry
as ---
(2001) Cats & Dogs
as Sophie the Castle Maid
(2006) Flushed Away
as Rita's Grandma (voice)
(1998) Babe: Pig in the City
as Fly (voice)
(1995) Cold Comfort Farm
as Mrs. Beetle
(2011) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Pomona Sprout
(1999) End of Days
as Mabel
(1995) Babe
as Fly (voice)
(2006) Happy Feet
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
(1994) Immortal Beloved
as Nanette Streicherová
(2010) Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
(2002) Alone
as Caseworker
(2007) The Dukes
as Aunt Vee
(1985) The Good Father
as Jane Powell
(1987) Little Dorrit
as Flora Finching
(1980) The Awakening
as Dr. Kadira
(1980) The Apple
as Landlady
(1999) Sunshine
as Rose Sonnenschein
(1984) Electric Dreams
as Ticket Girl
(1999) Magnolia
as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
(1999) Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Signora Caldoni
(1982) Scrubbers
as Jones
(2023) Mog's Christmas
as Aunt One (voice)
(1992) Stalin
as Krupskaya
(1998) The First Snow of Winter
as Sean McDuck (voice)
(1988) Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Queen Victoria
(1996) Different for Girls
as Pamela
(1991) Dead Again
as Hypnotism Patient
(2012) The Wedding Video
as Patricia
(2023) Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self – Narrator (voice)
(2023) My Happy Ending
as Judy
(2012) The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
(1997) The Long Way Home
as (voice)
(1987) Body Contact
as Tony's Mother
(1975) Naughty Girls
as Voice
(2022) imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
as Self
(1969) The Ha-Ha
as Kathie
(1994) Liberation
as Narrator
(2016) Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
as Self
(2012) Sir Billi
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
(2014) The Seventeenth Kind
as Mrs. Mark
(1976) The Lifeswappers
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
(2011) The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Mummy Socks (voice)
(1989) Unexplained Laughter
as Laughter (voice)
(1992) As You Like It
as Audrey
(1969) A Nice Girl Like Me
as Pensione
(1977) Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
as Elephant Ethel
(2004) Ladies in Lavender
as Dorcas
(2004) Being Julia
as Dolly de Vries
(1985) Morons from Outer Space
as Doctor Wallace
(2004) Modigliani
as Gertrude Stein
(2012) The Guilt Trip
as Anita
(2008) How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Mrs. Kowalski
(2005) Wallis & Edward
as Aunt Bessie
(1990) Orpheus Descending
as Vee Talbot
(1990) The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
(1977) Confessions from a Holiday Camp
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
(1981) Reds
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
(1993) Ed and His Dead Mother
as Mabel Chilton
(1991) The Butcher's Wife
as Gina
(2002) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Pomona Sprout
(1986) Little Shop of Horrors
as Dental Nurse
(1995) Balto
as Grandma Rosy
(1993) Demonella
as Mother
(2022) The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
(1975) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
as ---
(2000) House!
as Auntie Beth
(2014) Maya the Bee Movie
as The Queen (voice)
(2014) The Legend of Longwood
as ---
(2011) When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
(2022) David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
as Self
(2014) Outlier
as ---
(2008) We Are Most Amused
as Self
(2022) Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
as Self
(2022) Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
as Self
(1983) Yentl
as Sarah
(1978) On a Paving Stone Mounted
as ---
(1989) Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Mrs. Rajzman
(1990) The Fool
as Mrs. Bowring
(2024) The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
as Narrator (voice)
(1976) The Battle of Billy's Pond
as Tour Guide
(2023) Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
(2014) Honeysuckle
as Patricia
(1974) On the Game
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1983) Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
as (voice)
(2017) The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mrs. Fisk
(1991) Echoes That Remain
as Narrator (voice)
(2015) Spirit-ED
as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
(2012) A Closed Book
as Mrs. Kilbride
(2017) Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Herself
(2017) The Little Vampire 3D
as Wulftrud (voice)
(1990) Old Flames
as Nellie
(2018) Early Man
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
(1993) The Thief and the Cobbler
as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
(2018) Postcards from the 48%
as ---
(2020) Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Prudence Stanley
(2021) H Is for Happiness
as Miss Bamford
(2007) What the Pythons Did Next...
as Narrator
(1977) The Thin End of the Wedge
as Veronica
(2020) Wings
as Audrey
(1997) The IMAX Nutcracker
as Sugar Plum
(2001) In Search of Peace
as Ester Cailingold (voice)
(2021) Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
as ---
(2023) Next to You
as Granny Vera
(2001) Not Afraid, Not Afraid
as ---
(2008) Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
(2004) Chasing Liberty
as Maria
(2024) How To Make It In Comedy
as ---
Holy Days
as ---
(2015) The Importance of Being Miriam
as ---
(2006) Jam and Jerusalem
as Joyce Midge
(1979) Tales of the Unexpected
as Mary Burge
(1997) Dharma & Greg
as Chloe
(1981) Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
as ---
(1989) Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
as Elsa Maxwell
(1983) Blackadder
as Lady Whiteadder
(1975) Angels
as ---
(1974) Fall of Eagles
as Anna Vyrubova
(1985) Oliver Twist
as ---
(2010) Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
as ---
(1981) A Kick Up the Eighties
as ---
(1994) Moonacre
as Old Elspeth
(2023) Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
as Self
(2005) Dickens in America
as Host
(1992) Frannie's Turn
as Frannie Escobar
(1997) The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Cook
(1974) Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
as ---
(1967) At the Eleventh Hour
as ---
(1976) Kizzy
as ---
(1978) Monkey
as Narator
(2017) Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
as Self
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(2021) Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
as Self
(2013) Plebs
as Iona
(2011) Trollied
as ---
(2007) Kingdom
as Henny Leach
(2007) The Graham Norton Show
as Self
(2002) Dickens
as ---
(1993) Magic Grandad
as Grandma
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self
(2017) Bucket
as Mim
(1991) Rugrats
as Shirley Finster (voice)
(1998) Supply and Demand
as Edna
(1982) Wogan
as Self
(1992) Terry Wogan's Friday Night
as Self
(1984) Freud
as Baroness von Lieben
(1981) The History Man
as Melissa Tordoroff
(2024) Doctor Who
as The Meep (voice)
(1987) A Little Princess
as Miss Amelia
(1998) Vanity Fair
as Miss Crawley
(2012) Call the Midwife
as Mother Mildred
(2022) Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
as Self - Host
(2012) Call the Midwife
as Sister Mildred
(1975) The Girls of Slender Means
as Jane Wright
(2018) Miriam’s Big American Adventure
as Herself
(2016) The Real Marigold Hotel
as Self
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Mrs. Price-Ridley
(2012) Honest Trailers
as Pomona Sprout (archive footage)
(2018) Apple & Onion
as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
(2016) The Real Marigold on Tour
as Host (Herself)
(2019) Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
as Herself - Presenter
(1986) Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
as ---
(2015) The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
as Self
(2016) John Bishop: In Conversation with...
as Self
(2021) Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
as Narrator
(2024) Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
as Self
(1986) Muzzy in Gondoland
as The Queen (voice)
(2019) Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
as Herself
(2005) American Dad!
as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
(2008) Q&A
as Self - Panellist
(2020) Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
as Self - Presenter
(1970) Play for Today
as Veronica
(2012) Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
as Aunt Prudence
(2020) Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
as Self - Host
(1982) The Comic Strip Presents...
as Mother
(2024) Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure
as Self - Presenter
(2008) Merlin
as Grunhilda
(1983) Blackadder
as Queen Victoria
(2022) Dog Squad
as Sylvie (voice)
(2025) Badjelly
as Badjelly (voice)
(2013) The Last Leg
as Self
(2025) Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand
as Self - Presenter