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 (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)
(2024)
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
(2024)
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self – Narrator (voice)
(2023)
Doctor Who: The Star Beast
as Meep
(2023)
Mog's Christmas
as Aunt One (voice)
(2023)
Next to You
as Granny Vera
(2023)
My Happy Ending
as Judy
(2023)
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
(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)
Wings
as Audrey
(2020)
The Last Artifact
as Narrator (UK version)
(2018)
Early Man
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
(2018)
(2017)
The Little Vampire 3D
as Wulftrud (voice)
(2017)
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mrs. Fisk
(2017)
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Herself
(2017)
Peter and the Wolf
as Narrator
(2016)
(2015)
Mother
as Maria Aponte
(2015)
(2015)
Spirit-ED
as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
(2014)
Maya the Bee Movie
as Queen (voice)
(2014)
(2014)
The Seventeenth Kind
as Mrs. Mark
(2014)
The Legend of Longwood
as Lady Thyrza
(2014)
Honeysuckle
as Patricia
(2012)
The Guilt Trip
as Anita
(2012)
Sir Billi
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
(2012)
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
(2012)
The Wedding Video
as Patricia
(2012)
A Closed Book
as Mrs. Kilbride
(2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Pomona Sprout
(2011)
The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Mummy Socks (voice)
(2011)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
(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)
(2008)
We Are Most Amused
as Self
(2007)
The Dukes
as Aunt Vee
(2007)
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Narrator
(2007)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Narrator (voice)
(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)
Being Julia
as Dolly de Vries
(2004)
Modigliani
as Gertrude Stein
(2004)
Ladies in Lavender
as Dorcas
(2004)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Peg Sellers
(2004)
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Cook
(2002)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Pomona Sprout
(2002)
Alone
as Caseworker
(2002)
Undertaking Betty
as Thelma & Selma
(2001)
Cats & Dogs
as Sophie the Castle Maid
(2001)
(2001)
In Search of Peace
as Ester Cailingold (voice)
(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)
Dead Again
as Hypnotism Patient
(1991)
The Butcher's Wife
as Gina
(1991)
Echoes That Remain
as Narrator (voice)
(1990)
Pacific Heights
as Realtor
(1990)
Old Flames
as Nellie
(1990)
The Fool
as Mrs. Bowring
(1990)
I Love You to Death
as Joey's Mother
(1990)
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
(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 Narrator (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)
The Thin End of the Wedge
as Veronica
(1977)
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
(1977)
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
as Elephant Ethel
(1976)
The Battle of Billy's Pond
as Tour Guide
(1976)
The Lifeswappers
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
(1975)
(1975)
Naughty Girls
as Voice
(1974)
On the Game
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1969)
The Ha-Ha
as Kathie
(1969)
A Nice Girl Like Me
as Pensione