
Miriam Margolyes
Known for Acting · 213 credits
- Born
- 1941-05-18 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
- Also known as
- Miriam Margolyes, OBE
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
TV Shows (80)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

Family Guy
1999
as Right Eyeball (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self

American Dad!
2005
as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Call the Midwife
2012
as Mother Mildred

Rugrats
1991
as Shirley Finster (voice)

Play for Today
1970
as Veronica

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Mrs. Price-Ridley

Wogan
1982
as Self

Merlin
2008
as Grunhilda

The Last Leg
2013
as Self

Omnibus
1967

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Mary Burge

Screen Two
1985
as Nellie

Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist

Theatre 625
1964
as Rita

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

ITV Playhouse
1967
as Kathie

Blackadder
1983
as Lady Whiteadder / Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain

Dharma & Greg
1997
as Chloe

Apple & Onion
2018
as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

Remembers…
2022
as Self

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
as Aunt Prudence

The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
as Leaf Blathereen (voice)

Angels
1975

Monkey
1978
as Narator / Demon (voice)

Kingdom
2007
as Henny Leach

Trollied
2011

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
as Self

Plebs
2013
as Iona

The Play on One
1988
as Laughter (voice)

Fall of Eagles
1974
as Anna Vyrubova

John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
as Self

Vanity Fair
1998
as Miss Crawley

Jam and Jerusalem
2006
as Joyce Midge / Mrs. Joyce Midge
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
as Self

Dog Squad
2022
as Sylvie (voice)

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
as Elsa Maxwell

Big Muzzy
1987
as The Queen (voice)
Magic Grandad
1993
as Grandma

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self

Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
as Self

Oliver Twist
1985

A Kick Up the Eighties
1981

Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
as Narrator

Freud
1984
as Baroness von Lieben

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
as Nurse Hopkins

Badjelly
2025
as Badjelly (voice)

Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010

The History Man
1981
as Melissa Tordoroff

A Little Princess
1987
as Miss Amelia Minchin

The Project
2009

Dickens in America
2005
as Host

Supply and Demand
1998
as CS Edna Colley

The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
as Self - Host

Dickens
2002
as Catherine Dickens

The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
as Self

Plays for Britain
1976
as Miriam / Miss Babberton

Bucket
2017
as Mim
Movies (133)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
as Pomona Sprout

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
as Pomona Sprout

Mulan
1998
as The Matchmaker (voice)

Flushed Away
2006
as Rita's Grandma (voice)

Magnolia
1999
as Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Babe
1995
as Fly (voice)

Early Man
2018
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Happy Feet
2006
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

End of Days
1999
as Mabel

Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Nurse

Cats & Dogs
2001
as Sophie the Castle Maid

Little Shop of Horrors
1986
as Dental Nurse

James and the Giant Peach
1996
as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

Balto
1995
as Grandma Rosy

Sunshine
1999
as Rose Sonnenschein

Dead Again
1991
as Hypnotism Patient

The Age of Innocence
1993
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

The Guilt Trip
2012
as Anita

Babe: Pig in the City
1998
as Fly (voice)

Pacific Heights
1990
as Realtor

Electric Dreams
1984
as Ticket Girl

Holy Days
2026
as Sister Luke

Reds
1981
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Yentl
1983
as Sarah

Chasing Liberty
2004
as Maria

The Apple
1980
as Landlady

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
as Mrs. Kowalski

I Love You to Death
1990
as Joey's Mother

Undertaking Betty
2002
as Thelma & Selma

Maya the Bee Movie
2014
as Queen (voice)

Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Dorcas

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
as Mrs. Fisk

The Butcher's Wife
1991
as Gina

Immortal Beloved
1994
as Nanette Streicherová

The Little Vampire 3D
2017
as Wulftrud (voice)

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Peg Sellers

Being Julia
2004
as Dolly de Vries

The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
as Prudence Stanley

Cold Comfort Farm
1995
as Mrs. Beetle

Modigliani
2004
as Gertrude Stein

Little Dorrit
1987
as Flora Finching

Stalin
1992
as Krupskaya

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Narrator (voice)

Sir Billi
2012
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
as Mrs. Rajzman

My Happy Ending
2023
as Judy

The Awakening
1980
as Dr. Kadira

Mog's Christmas
2023
as Aunt One (voice)

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as Mabel Chilton

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021

The Long Way Home
1997
as (voice)
The Fool
1990
as Mrs. Bowring

Liberation
1994
as Narrator

The Seventeenth Kind
2014
as Mrs. Mark

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
as Herself

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Queen Victoria

Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

House!
2000
as Auntie Beth

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
as Self

The Legend of Longwood
2014
as Lady Thyrza

The Good Father
1985
as Jane Powell

Wallis & Edward
2005
as Aunt Bessie

The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
as Mummy Socks (voice)

Orpheus Descending
1990
as Vee Talbot

Morons from Outer Space
1985
as Doctor Wallace

Old Flames
1990
as Nellie

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
as Self

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Signora Caldoni

What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
as Narrator

In Search of Peace
2001
as Ester Cailingold (voice)

Alone
2002
as Caseworker

The Wedding Video
2012
as Patricia

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

On the Game
1974
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Left Luggage
1998
as Mrs. Goldman

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
as Self

The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
as Self

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
as Self

Different for Girls
1996
as Pamela

The Lifeswappers
1976
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
Outlier
2014
as Odamee Marshall

We Are Most Amused
2008
as Self

Body Contact
1987
as Tony's Mother

Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001

Scrubbers
1982
as Jones

Unexplained Laughter
1989
as Laughter (voice)

As You Like It
1992
as Audrey

The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
as Tour Guide

The Dukes
2007
as Aunt Vee

Echoes That Remain
1991
as Narrator (voice)

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
as Narrator (voice)

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
How To Make It In Comedy
2024

A Friend of Dorothy
2025
as Dorothy

H Is for Happiness
2021
as Miss Bamford
Angels in the Asylum

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025

A Closed Book
2012
as Mrs. Kilbride

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

Demonella
1993
as Mother

The First Snow of Winter
1998
as Sean McDuck (voice)

Next to You
2023
as Granny Vera

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
as Narrator (voice)

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
as self

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975

A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
as Pensione

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
as Self

The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
as Veronica

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
as Elephant Ethel

Postcards from the 48%
2018

Crystal Gazing
1982
as Newsreader

The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
as Cook

On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Honeysuckle
2014
as Patricia
The Ha-Ha
1969
as Kathie

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
as Miss N. Shortt
About Miriam Margolyes
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). With 213 credits spanning from 1962 to 2026, Miriam Margolyes has appeared in 133 films and 80 TV shows.
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Most Popular Miriam Margolyes Movies
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) — as Pomona Sprout
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) — as Pomona Sprout
- Mulan (1998) — as The Matchmaker (voice)
- Flushed Away (2006) — as Rita's Grandma (voice)
- Magnolia (1999) — as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
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