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Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

ActingBorn May 18, 1941 (age 85)Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK

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

2026
Holy Days

as Sister Luke

Movie
2025Movie
2025
Badjelly

as Badjelly (voice)

TV
2024Movie
2023
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Movie
2023
Mog's Christmas

as Aunt One (voice)

Movie
2023
Next to You

as Granny Vera

Movie
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2023Movie
2022
Dog Squad

as Sylvie (voice)

TV
2022Movie
2022TV
2021
H Is for Happiness

as Miss Bamford

Movie
2020
Wings

as Audrey

Movie
2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure

as Self - Presenter

TV
2020Movie
2020
The Last Artifact

as Narrator (UK version)

Movie
2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

as Herself - Presenter

TV
2018
Apple & Onion

as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

TV
2018
Early Man

as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Movie
2017Movie
2017
The Little Vampire 3D

as Wulftrud (voice)

Movie
2017
Bucket

as Mim

TV
2017Movie
2016TV
2015
Spirit-ED

as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

Movie
2015
Mother

as Maria Aponte

Movie
2014Movie
2014
Outlier

as Odamee Marshall

Movie
2014
Maya the Bee Movie

as Queen (voice)

Movie
2014Movie
2014
Honeysuckle

as Patricia

Movie
2013
Plebs

as Iona

TV
2013TV
2012
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

Movie
2012Movie
2012Movie
2012
A Closed Book

as Mrs. Kilbride

Movie
2012
Sir Billi

as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Movie
2012TV
2012
Call the Midwife

as Mother Mildred

TV
2011Movie
2011TV
2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit

as Mummy Socks (voice)

Movie
2010Movie
2008Movie
2008Movie
2008
Merlin

as Grunhilda

TV
2008
Q&A

as Self - Panellist

TV
2007
The Sarah Jane Adventures

as Leaf Blathereen (voice)

TV
2007
The Dukes

as Aunt Vee

Movie
2007
Kingdom

as Henny Leach

TV
2007Movie
2007Movie
2006
Jam and Jerusalem

as Joyce Midge

TV
2006
Jam and Jerusalem

as Mrs. Joyce Midge

TV
2006
Happy Feet

as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Movie
2006
Flushed Away

as Rita's Grandma (voice)

Movie
2005
Wallis & Edward

as Aunt Bessie

Movie
2005TV
2005
American Dad!

as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

TV
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Mrs. Price-Ridley

TV
2004Movie
2004
Being Julia

as Dolly de Vries

Movie
2004
Modigliani

as Gertrude Stein

Movie
2004Movie
2002
Undertaking Betty

as Thelma & Selma

Movie
2002
Dickens

as Catherine Dickens

TV
2002
Alone

as Caseworker

Movie
2001
In Search of Peace

as Ester Cailingold (voice)

Movie
2001
Cats & Dogs

as Sophie the Castle Maid

Movie
2000
House!

as Auntie Beth

Movie
1999
Magnolia

as Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Movie
1999
End of Days

as Mabel

Movie
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Signora Caldoni

Movie
1999
Sunshine

as Rose Sonnenschein

Movie
1999
Family Guy

as Right Eyeball (voice)

TV
1998
The First Snow of Winter

as Sean McDuck (voice)

Movie
1998
Babe: Pig in the City

as Fly (voice)

Movie
1998
Vanity Fair

as Miss Crawley

TV
1998
Supply and Demand

as CS Edna Colley

TV
1998
Mulan

as The Matchmaker (voice)

Movie
1998
Left Luggage

as Mrs. Goldman

Movie
1997
The IMAX Nutcracker

as Sugar Plum

Movie
1997TV
1997Movie
1996Movie
1996Movie
1996
James and the Giant Peach

as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

Movie
1995
Balto

as Grandma Rosy

Movie
1995
Babe

as Fly (voice)

Movie
1995
Cold Comfort Farm

as Mrs. Beetle

Movie
1994
Immortal Beloved

as Nanette Streicherová

Movie
1994
Moonacre

as Old Elspeth

TV
1994
Liberation

as Narrator

Movie
1993
The Thief and the Cobbler

as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

Movie
1993
The Age of Innocence

as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

Movie
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother

as Mabel Chilton

Movie
1993
Demonella

as Mother

Movie
1993
Magic Grandad

as Grandma

TV
1992
Stalin

as Krupskaya

Movie
1992Movie
1992
Frannie's Turn

as Frannie Escobar

TV
1991Movie
1991
Dead Again

as Hypnotism Patient

Movie
1991
Rugrats

as Shirley Finster (voice)

TV
1991
Echoes That Remain

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1990
The Fool

as Mrs. Bowring

Movie
1990
Pacific Heights

as Realtor

Movie
1990Movie
1990
Orpheus Descending

as Vee Talbot

Movie
1990
I Love You to Death

as Joey's Mother

Movie
1990
Old Flames

as Nellie

Movie
1989
Unexplained Laughter

as Laughter (voice)

Movie
1988Movie
1988
The Play on One

as Laughter (voice)

TV
1987
Little Dorrit

as Flora Finching

Movie
1987
Body Contact

as Tony's Mother

Movie
1987
Big Muzzy

as The Queen (voice)

TV
1987
A Little Princess

as Miss Amelia Minchin

TV
1986
Little Shop of Horrors

as Dental Nurse

Movie
1986Movie
1986TV
1986Movie
1985
The Good Father

as Jane Powell

Movie
1985
Morons from Outer Space

as Doctor Wallace

Movie
1985
Screen Two

as Nellie

TV
1984
Freud

as Baroness von Lieben

TV
1984
Electric Dreams

as Ticket Girl

Movie
1983
Yentl

as Sarah

Movie
1983
Blackadder

as Lady Whiteadder

TV
1983
Blackadder

as Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain

TV
1983
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1982
Scrubbers

as Jones

Movie
1982
Crystal Gazing

as Newsreader

Movie
1982
Wogan

as Self

TV
1981
Reds

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Movie
1981
The History Man

as Melissa Tordoroff

TV
1980
The Apple

as Landlady

Movie
1980
The Awakening

as Dr. Kadira

Movie
1979TV
1978
Monkey

as Narator

TV
1978
Monkey

as Demon (voice)

TV
1978TV
1977Movie
1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp

as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

as Elephant Ethel

Movie
1977
Childhood

as Mademoiselle

TV
1976
The Lifeswappers

as Miriam/Miss Babberton

Movie
1976
Plays for Britain

as Miriam / Miss Babberton

TV
1976
Kizzy

as Mrs Doe

TV
1976Movie
1975Movie
1975TV
1975TV
1974
Fall of Eagles

as Anna Vyrubova

TV
1974
On the Game

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Movie
1970
Play for Today

as Veronica

TV
1969Movie
1969
The Ha-Ha

as Kathie

Movie
1967TV
1967
ITV Playhouse

as Kathie

TV
1965TV
1964TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayMay 18, 1941
Place of BirthOxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Popularity1.2
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