Miriam Margolyes
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1941-05-18 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Miriam Margolyes
Biography
Miriam Margolyes 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
Acting
(2025)
A Friend of Dorothy
as Dorothy
(2025)
(2024)
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
as Narrator (voice)
(2024)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
(2024)
(2023)
My Happy Ending
as Judy
(2023)
Mog's Christmas
as Aunt One (voice)
(2023)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self – Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
(2023)
Next to You
as Granny Vera
(2023)
Doctor Who: The Star Beast
as Meep
(2022)
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2022)
(2021)
H Is for Happiness
as Miss Bamford
(2021)
(2020)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Prudence Stanley
(2020)
The Last Artifact
as Narrator (UK version)
(2020)
Wings
as Audrey
(2018)
Early Man
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
(2018)
(2017)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mrs. Fisk
(2017)
The Little Vampire 3D
as Wulftrud (voice)
(2017)
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Herself
(2016)
(2015)
Mother
as Maria Aponte
(2015)
Spirit-ED
as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
(2015)
(2014)
Maya the Bee Movie
as Queen (voice)
(2014)
The Legend of Longwood
as Lady Thyrza
(2014)
(2014)
Honeysuckle
as Patricia
(2014)
The Seventeenth Kind
as Mrs. Mark
(2012)
The Guilt Trip
as Anita
(2012)
The Wedding Video
as Patricia
(2012)
Sir Billi
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
(2012)
A Closed Book
as Mrs. Kilbride
(2012)
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Pomona Sprout
(2011)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
(2011)
The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Mummy Socks (voice)
(2010)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
(2008)
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Mrs. Kowalski
(2008)
We Are Most Amused
as Self
(2008)
(2007)
The Dukes
as Aunt Vee
(2007)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Narrator (voice)
(2007)
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Narrator
(2006)
Flushed Away
as Rita's Grandma (voice)
(2006)
Happy Feet
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
(2005)
Wallis & Edward
as Aunt Bessie
(2004)
Chasing Liberty
as Maria
(2004)
Modigliani
as Gertrude Stein
(2004)
Ladies in Lavender
as Dorcas
(2004)
Being Julia
as Dolly de Vries
(2004)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Peg Sellers
(2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Pomona Sprout
(2002)
Undertaking Betty
as Thelma & Selma
(2002)
Alone
as Caseworker
(2001)
Cats & Dogs
as Sophie the Castle Maid
(2001)
In Search of Peace
as Ester Cailingold (voice)
(2001)
(2000)
House!
as Auntie Beth
(1999)
Magnolia
as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
(1999)
End of Days
as Mabel
(1999)
Sunshine
as Rose Sonnenschein
(1999)
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Signora Caldoni
(1998)
Mulan
as The Matchmaker (voice)
(1998)
Babe: Pig in the City
as Fly (voice)
(1998)
The First Snow of Winter
as Sean McDuck (voice)
(1997)
The Long Way Home
as (voice)
(1997)
The IMAX Nutcracker
as Sugar Plum
(1996)
Romeo + Juliet
as Nurse
(1996)
James and the Giant Peach
as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
(1996)
Different for Girls
as Pamela
(1995)
Babe
as Fly (voice)
(1995)
Balto
as Grandma Rosy
(1995)
Cold Comfort Farm
as Mrs. Beetle
(1994)
Immortal Beloved
as Nanette Streicherová
(1994)
Liberation
as Narrator
(1993)
The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
(1993)
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
(1993)
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Mabel Chilton
(1993)
Demonella
as Mother
(1992)
Stalin
as Krupskaya
(1992)
As You Like It
as Audrey
(1991)
The Butcher's Wife
as Gina
(1991)
Dead Again
as Hypnotism Patient
(1991)
Echoes That Remain
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
Pacific Heights
as Realtor
(1990)
I Love You to Death
as Joey's Mother
(1990)
The Fool
as Mrs. Bowring
(1990)
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
(1990)
Old Flames
as Nellie
(1990)
Orpheus Descending
as Vee Talbot
(1989)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Mrs. Rajzman
(1989)
Unexplained Laughter
as Laughter (voice)
(1988)
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Queen Victoria
(1987)
Little Dorrit
as Flora Finching
(1987)
Body Contact
as Tony's Mother
(1986)
Little Shop of Horrors
as Dental Nurse
(1986)
(1986)
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
as Miss N. Shortt
(1985)
Morons from Outer Space
as Doctor Wallace
(1985)
The Good Father
as Jane Powell
(1984)
Electric Dreams
as Ticket Girl
(1983)
Yentl
as Sarah
(1983)
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
as (voice)
(1982)
Scrubbers
as Jones
(1981)
Reds
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
(1980)
The Apple
as Landlady
(1980)
The Awakening
as Dr. Kadira
(1978)
(1977)
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
(1977)
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
as Elephant Ethel
(1977)
The Thin End of the Wedge
as Veronica
(1976)
The Lifeswappers
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
(1976)
The Battle of Billy's Pond
as Tour Guide
(1975)
Naughty Girls
as Voice
(1975)
(1974)
On the Game
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1969)
A Nice Girl Like Me
as Pensione
(1969)
The Ha-Ha
as Kathie