Miriam Margolyes

Acting

Born: 1941-05-18 in 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).

Acting

Romeo + Juliet

Nurse

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Narrator (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

I Love You to Death

Joey's Mother

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Peg Sellers

Mulan

The Matchmaker (voice)

The Last Artifact

Narrator (UK version)

The Age of Innocence

Mrs. Catherine Mingott

Pacific Heights

Realtor

Undertaking Betty

Thelma & Selma

Scotch & Wry

Cats & Dogs

Sophie the Castle Maid

Flushed Away

Rita's Grandma (voice)

Babe: Pig in the City

Fly (voice)

Cold Comfort Farm

Mrs. Beetle

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Pomona Sprout

End of Days

Mabel

Babe

Fly (voice)

Happy Feet

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Immortal Beloved

Nanette Streicherová

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

Alone

Caseworker

The Dukes

Aunt Vee

The Good Father

Jane Powell

Little Dorrit

Flora Finching

The Awakening

Dr. Kadira

The Apple

Landlady

Sunshine

Rose Sonnenschein

Electric Dreams

Ticket Girl

Magnolia

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Signora Caldoni

Scrubbers

Jones

Mog's Christmas

Aunt One (voice)

Stalin

Krupskaya

The First Snow of Winter

Sean McDuck (voice)

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Queen Victoria

Different for Girls

Pamela

Dead Again

Hypnotism Patient

The Wedding Video

Patricia

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

Self - Narrator (voice)

My Happy Ending

Judy

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

The Long Way Home

(voice)

Body Contact

Tony's Mother

Naughty Girls

Voice

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Self

The Ha-Ha

Kathie

Liberation

Narrator

Sir Billi

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

Self

The Seventeenth Kind

Mrs. Mark

The Lifeswappers

Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Itch of the Golden Nit

Mummy Socks (voice)

Unexplained Laughter

Laughter (voice)

As You Like It

Audrey

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pomona Sprout

A Nice Girl Like Me

Pensione

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Elephant Ethel

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

Reds

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Morons from Outer Space

Doctor Wallace

Little Shop of Horrors

Dental Nurse

Orpheus Descending

Vee Talbot

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

The Butcher's Wife

Gina

Ed and His Dead Mother

Mabel Chilton

Balto

Grandma Rosy

Ladies in Lavender

Dorcas

Being Julia

Dolly de Vries

Modigliani

Gertrude Stein

Wallis & Edward

Aunt Bessie

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Mrs. Kowalski

The Guilt Trip

Anita

Demonella

Mother

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Self

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

House!

Auntie Beth

Maya the Bee Movie

Queen (voice)

The Legend of Longwood

Lady Thyrza

When Harry Left Hogwarts

Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

Self

Outlier

Odamee Marshall

We Are Most Amused

Self

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

Self

Yentl

Sarah

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Mrs. Rajzman

The Fool

Mrs. Bowring

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

Narrator (voice)

The Battle of Billy's Pond

Tour Guide

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Honeysuckle

Patricia

On the Game

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

Narrator (voice)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Mrs. Fisk

Echoes That Remain

Narrator (voice)

Spirit-ED

Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

A Closed Book

Mrs. Kilbride

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Herself

The Little Vampire 3D

Wulftrud (voice)

Old Flames

Nellie

Early Man

Queen Oofeefa (voice)

The Thief and the Cobbler

Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

Postcards from the 48%

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Prudence Stanley

H Is for Happiness

Miss Bamford

What the Pythons Did Next...

Narrator

The Thin End of the Wedge

Veronica

Wings

Audrey

The IMAX Nutcracker

Sugar Plum

In Search of Peace

Ester Cailingold (voice)

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

Next to You

Granny Vera

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Self

Chasing Liberty

Maria

How To Make It In Comedy

Holy Days

Sister Luke

The Importance of Being Miriam

Angels in the Asylum

Mother

Maria Aponte

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

self

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

A Friend of Dorothy

Dorothy

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

Self

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

Miss N. Shortt

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Cook

Peter and the Wolf

Narrator

Crystal Gazing

Newsreader

Romeo + Juliet

Nurse

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Narrator (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

I Love You to Death

Joey's Mother

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Peg Sellers

Mulan

The Matchmaker (voice)

The Last Artifact

Narrator (UK version)

The Age of Innocence

Mrs. Catherine Mingott

Pacific Heights

Realtor

Undertaking Betty

Thelma & Selma

Scotch & Wry

Cats & Dogs

Sophie the Castle Maid

Flushed Away

Rita's Grandma (voice)

Babe: Pig in the City

Fly (voice)

Cold Comfort Farm

Mrs. Beetle

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Pomona Sprout

End of Days

Mabel

Babe

Fly (voice)

Happy Feet

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Immortal Beloved

Nanette Streicherová

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

Alone

Caseworker

The Dukes

Aunt Vee

The Good Father

Jane Powell

Little Dorrit

Flora Finching

The Awakening

Dr. Kadira

The Apple

Landlady

Sunshine

Rose Sonnenschein

Electric Dreams

Ticket Girl

Magnolia

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Signora Caldoni

Scrubbers

Jones

Mog's Christmas

Aunt One (voice)

Stalin

Krupskaya

The First Snow of Winter

Sean McDuck (voice)

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Queen Victoria

Different for Girls

Pamela

Dead Again

Hypnotism Patient

The Wedding Video

Patricia

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

Self - Narrator (voice)

My Happy Ending

Judy

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

The Long Way Home

(voice)

Body Contact

Tony's Mother

Naughty Girls

Voice

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Self

The Ha-Ha

Kathie

Liberation

Narrator

Sir Billi

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

Self

The Seventeenth Kind

Mrs. Mark

The Lifeswappers

Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Itch of the Golden Nit

Mummy Socks (voice)

Unexplained Laughter

Laughter (voice)

As You Like It

Audrey

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pomona Sprout

A Nice Girl Like Me

Pensione

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Elephant Ethel

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

Reds

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Morons from Outer Space

Doctor Wallace

Little Shop of Horrors

Dental Nurse

Orpheus Descending

Vee Talbot

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

The Butcher's Wife

Gina

Ed and His Dead Mother

Mabel Chilton

Balto

Grandma Rosy

Ladies in Lavender

Dorcas

Being Julia

Dolly de Vries

Modigliani

Gertrude Stein

Wallis & Edward

Aunt Bessie

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Mrs. Kowalski

The Guilt Trip

Anita

Demonella

Mother

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Self

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

House!

Auntie Beth

Maya the Bee Movie

Queen (voice)

The Legend of Longwood

Lady Thyrza

When Harry Left Hogwarts

Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

Self

Outlier

Odamee Marshall

We Are Most Amused

Self

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

Self

Yentl

Sarah

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Mrs. Rajzman

The Fool

Mrs. Bowring

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

Narrator (voice)

The Battle of Billy's Pond

Tour Guide

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Honeysuckle

Patricia

On the Game

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

Narrator (voice)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Mrs. Fisk

Echoes That Remain

Narrator (voice)

Spirit-ED

Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

A Closed Book

Mrs. Kilbride

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Herself

The Little Vampire 3D

Wulftrud (voice)

Old Flames

Nellie

Early Man

Queen Oofeefa (voice)

The Thief and the Cobbler

Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

Postcards from the 48%

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Prudence Stanley

H Is for Happiness

Miss Bamford

What the Pythons Did Next...

Narrator

The Thin End of the Wedge

Veronica

Wings

Audrey

The IMAX Nutcracker

Sugar Plum

In Search of Peace

Ester Cailingold (voice)

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

Next to You

Granny Vera

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Self

Chasing Liberty

Maria

How To Make It In Comedy

Holy Days

Sister Luke

The Importance of Being Miriam

Angels in the Asylum

Mother

Maria Aponte

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

self

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

A Friend of Dorothy

Dorothy

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

Self

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

Miss N. Shortt

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Cook

Peter and the Wolf

Narrator

Crystal Gazing

Newsreader