
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)

Family Guy
1999
as Right Eyeball (voice)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self

American Dad!
2005
as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self

The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self

Rugrats
1991
as Shirley Finster (voice)

Call the Midwife
2012
as Mother Mildred

Play for Today
1970
as Veronica

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

Merlin
2008
as Grunhilda

Wogan
1982
as Self

The Last Leg
2013
as Self

Omnibus
1967

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Mary Burge

Screen Two
1985
as Nellie

An Audience with...
1978
as Self

Q&A
2008
as Self - Panellist

Blackadder
1983
as Lady Whiteadder / Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain

Theatre 625
1964
as Rita

ITV Playhouse
1967
as Kathie

Dharma & Greg
1997
as Chloe

Remembers…
2022
as Self

Apple & Onion
2018
as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

Angels
1975

The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
as Leaf Blathereen (voice)

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
as Aunt Prudence

Trollied
2011

Monkey
1978
as Narator / Demon (voice)

Plebs
2013
as Iona

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
as Self

Kingdom
2007
as Henny Leach

The Play on One
1988
as Laughter (voice)

Fall of Eagles
1974
as Anna Vyrubova

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

Dog Squad
2022
as Sylvie (voice)

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

Vanity Fair
1998
as Miss Crawley

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

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

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self

Freud
1984
as Baroness von Lieben

Oliver Twist
1985

Dickens
2002
as Catherine Dickens

Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
as Self

A Little Princess
1987
as Miss Amelia Minchin

A Kick Up the Eighties
1981

Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010

Badjelly
2025
as Badjelly (voice)

The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
as Self - Host

Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
as Narrator

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

The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
as Self

Dickens in America
2005
as Host

The History Man
1981
as Melissa Tordoroff

The Project
2009

Plays for Britain
1976
as Miriam / Miss Babberton
Moonacre
1994
as Old Elspeth
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
as Herself
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)

Happy Feet
2006
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Babe
1995
as Fly (voice)

Romeo + Juliet
1996
as Nurse

End of Days
1999
as Mabel

Early Man
2018
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Cats & Dogs
2001
as Sophie the Castle Maid

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

Balto
1995
as Grandma Rosy

Little Shop of Horrors
1986
as Dental Nurse

The Age of Innocence
1993
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

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

Sunshine
1999
as Rose Sonnenschein

Dead Again
1991
as Hypnotism Patient

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

Electric Dreams
1984
as Ticket Girl

The Guilt Trip
2012
as Anita

I Love You to Death
1990
as Joey's Mother

Pacific Heights
1990
as Realtor

Chasing Liberty
2004
as Maria

Holy Days
2026
as Sister Luke

Reds
1981
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

The Little Vampire 3D
2017
as Wulftrud (voice)

Maya the Bee Movie
2014
as Queen (voice)

Immortal Beloved
1994
as Nanette Streicherová

Yentl
1983
as Sarah

The Apple
1980
as Landlady

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

Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Dorcas

The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
as Mrs. Fisk

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Peg Sellers

The Butcher's Wife
1991
as Gina

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

Cold Comfort Farm
1995
as Mrs. Beetle

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

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
as Prudence Stanley

Modigliani
2004
as Gertrude Stein

Being Julia
2004
as Dolly de Vries

Undertaking Betty
2002
as Thelma & Selma

Stalin
1992
as Krupskaya

Little Dorrit
1987
as Flora Finching

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Narrator (voice)

The Awakening
1980
as Dr. Kadira
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
as Mabel Chilton

When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
as Self

The Long Way Home
1997
as (voice)

Sir Billi
2012
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
as Herself

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021

My Happy Ending
2023
as Judy

The Good Father
1985
as Jane Powell

Mog's Christmas
2023
as Aunt One (voice)

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
as Self

Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
as Queen Victoria

Orpheus Descending
1990
as Vee Talbot

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

Morons from Outer Space
1985
as Doctor Wallace

House!
2000
as Auntie Beth

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
as Signora Caldoni
The Fool
1990
as Mrs. Bowring

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
as Self

Old Flames
1990
as Nellie

Liberation
1994
as Narrator

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

The Wedding Video
2012
as Patricia

The Seventeenth Kind
2014
as Mrs. Mark

Wallis & Edward
2005
as Aunt Bessie

What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
as Narrator

We Are Most Amused
2008
as Self

The Dukes
2007
as Aunt Vee

The Legend of Longwood
2014
as Lady Thyrza

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
as Self

Left Luggage
1998
as Mrs. Goldman

A Friend of Dorothy
2025
as Dorothy

Different for Girls
1996
as Pamela

Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001

The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
as Self

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

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

In Search of Peace
2001
as Ester Cailingold (voice)

H Is for Happiness
2021
as Miss Bamford

As You Like It
1992
as Audrey

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Outlier
2014
as Odamee Marshall

Unexplained Laughter
1989
as Laughter (voice)

The Lifeswappers
1976
as Miriam/Miss Babberton

Scrubbers
1982
as Jones

Alone
2002
as Caseworker
Angels in the Asylum

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
as Self

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

Body Contact
1987
as Tony's Mother

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

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025

The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
as Tour Guide

A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
as Pensione

A Closed Book
2012
as Mrs. Kilbride

Echoes That Remain
1991
as Narrator (voice)

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
as Self
How To Make It In Comedy
2024

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
as Narrator (voice)
The Ha-Ha
1969
as Kathie

Demonella
1993
as Mother

The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
as Cook

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
as Elephant Ethel

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
as self

The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
as Veronica

Postcards from the 48%
2018

Next to You
2023
as Granny Vera

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Honeysuckle
2014
as Patricia

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
as Narrator (voice)

Crystal Gazing
1982
as Newsreader

On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978

Wings
2020
as Audrey
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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- 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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