Miriam Margolyes

May 18, 1941 (84 years old) in Oxford, England, UK

Miriam Margolyes OBE (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

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American Dad!

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

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Rugrats

Shirley Finster (voice)

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Call the Midwife

Mother Mildred

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pomona Sprout

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Merlin

Grunhilda

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Agatha Christie's Marple

Mrs. Price-Ridley

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Pomona Sprout

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Play for Today

Veronica

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Tales of the Unexpected

Mary Burge

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The Comic Strip Presents...

Mother

Credits

Holy Days Future

★ NR
Angels in the Asylum Future

★ NR
A Friend of Dorothy 2025

Dorothy

★ NR
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness 2025

★ NR
Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand 2025

Self - Presenter

★ 7.3
Badjelly 2025

Badjelly (voice)

★ NR
Alec Guinness: A Class Act 2024

self

★ 6
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved 2024

Narrator (voice)

★ NR
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian 2024

Self

★ 6.6
How To Make It In Comedy 2024

★ NR
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials 2023

The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

★ 9.2
Mog's Christmas 2023

Aunt One (voice)

★ 7.3
Doctor Who: The Star Beast 2023

Meep

★ 9.5
Next to You 2023

Granny Vera

★ 3.5
Blackadder: A Cunning Story 2023

Self – Narrator (voice)

★ 7.5
My Happy Ending 2023

Judy

★ 6.6
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer 2023

Self

★ NR
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas 2022

Self

★ 10
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count 2022

Self

★ 10
Dog Squad 2022

Sylvie (voice)

★ NR
The Fringe, Fame and Me 2022

Self

★ NR
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration 2022

Self

★ 8
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked 2022

Self - Host

★ 6.8
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure 2022

Self

★ 8
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs 2022

Self

★ NR
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland 2021

Self

★ 7.5
H Is for Happiness 2021

Miss Bamford

★ 6.7
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall 2021

★ 7.5
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership 2021

Narrator

★ 10
Wings 2020

Audrey

★ NR
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian 2020

Self - Host

★ 7.8
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure 2020

Self - Presenter

★ 8
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears 2020

Prudence Stanley

★ 6.1
The Last Artifact 2020

Narrator (UK version)

★ NR
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter 2019

Herself

★ NR
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure 2019

Herself - Presenter

★ 7.5
Postcards from the 48% 2018

★ 6
Apple & Onion 2018

Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

★ 6.6
Early Man 2018

Queen Oofeefa (voice)

★ 6.1
Miriam’s Big American Adventure 2018

Herself

★ 8
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic 2017

Herself

★ 7.4
The Man Who Invented Christmas 2017

Mrs. Fisk

★ 6.8
The Little Vampire 3D 2017

Wulftrud (voice)

★ 6.1
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks 2017

Self

★ NR
Bucket 2017

Mim

★ 5.8
The Real Marigold on Tour 2016

Host (Herself)

★ 8
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book 2016

Self

★ 8
The Real Marigold Hotel 2016

Self

★ 8
The Importance of Being Miriam 2015

★ NR
Spirit-ED 2015

Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

★ 5
Mother 2015

Maria Aponte

★ NR
The Legend of Longwood 2014

Lady Thyrza

★ 5.2
Outlier 2014

★ NR
Maya the Bee Movie 2014

Queen (voice)

★ 6.2
The Seventeenth Kind 2014

Mrs. Mark

★ NR
Honeysuckle 2014

Patricia

★ NR
Plebs 2013

Iona

★ 7.3
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas 2012

Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

★ 6
The Guilt Trip 2012

Anita

★ 5.6
The Wedding Video 2012

Patricia

★ 5.4
A Closed Book 2012

Mrs. Kilbride

★ 5.5
Sir Billi 2012

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

★ 3.2
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries 2012

Aunt Prudence

★ 7.7
Honest Trailers 2012

Pomona Sprout (archive footage)

★ 6.6
Call the Midwife 2012

Mother Mildred

★ 7.5
When Harry Left Hogwarts 2011

Self

★ 7
Trollied 2011

★ 6.3
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2011

Pomona Sprout

★ 8.1
The Itch of the Golden Nit 2011

Mummy Socks (voice)

★ 7.7
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole 2010

Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

★ 6.8
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga 2010

★ 7
We Are Most Amused 2008

Self

★ 7.2
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments 2008

Self

★ 4.5
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 2008

Mrs. Kowalski

★ 6
Merlin 2008

Grunhilda

★ 7.8
The Sarah Jane Adventures 2007

Leaf Blathereen (voice)

★ 7.1
The Dukes 2007

Aunt Vee

★ 4.6
Kingdom 2007

Henny Leach

★ 7.1
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas 2007

Narrator (voice)

★ NR
What the Pythons Did Next... 2007

Narrator

★ NR
Jam and Jerusalem 2006

Joyce Midge

★ 7
Happy Feet 2006

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

★ 6.2
Flushed Away 2006

Rita's Grandma (voice)

★ 6.3
Wallis & Edward 2005

Aunt Bessie

★ 5.1
Dickens in America 2005

Host

★ NR
American Dad! 2005

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

★ 7
Agatha Christie's Marple 2004

Mrs. Price-Ridley

★ 7.7
Ladies in Lavender 2004

Dorcas

★ 6.4
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 2004

Peg Sellers

★ 6.6
Being Julia 2004

Dolly de Vries

★ 6.5
Modigliani 2004

Gertrude Stein

★ 7.1
Chasing Liberty 2004

Maria

★ 6.2
Undertaking Betty 2002

Thelma & Selma

★ 6.1
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002

Pomona Sprout

★ 7.7
Dickens 2002

★ NR
Alone 2002

Caseworker

★ 4.6
In Search of Peace 2001

Ester Cailingold (voice)

★ 6.5
Cats & Dogs 2001

Sophie the Castle Maid

★ 5.4
Not Afraid, Not Afraid 2001

★ NR
House! 2000

Auntie Beth

★ 6.3
Magnolia 1999

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

★ 7.7
End of Days 1999

Mabel

★ 6.1
Dreaming of Joseph Lees 1999

Signora Caldoni

★ 6
Sunshine 1999

Rose Sonnenschein

★ 6.5
The First Snow of Winter 1998

Sean McDuck (voice)

★ 6.5
Babe: Pig in the City 1998

Fly (voice)

★ 5.6
Vanity Fair 1998

Miss Crawley

★ 7.7
Supply and Demand 1998

Edna

★ NR
Mulan 1998

The Matchmaker (voice)

★ 7.9
The IMAX Nutcracker 1997

Sugar Plum

★ NR
The Phoenix and the Carpet 1997

Cook

★ NR
Dharma & Greg 1997

Chloe

★ 6.4
The Long Way Home 1997

(voice)

★ 7.1
Romeo + Juliet 1996

Nurse

★ 6.8
Different for Girls 1996

Pamela

★ 7.2
James and the Giant Peach 1996

Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

★ 6.6
Balto 1995

Grandma Rosy

★ 7.3
Babe 1995

Fly (voice)

★ 6.2
Cold Comfort Farm 1995

Mrs. Beetle

★ 6.8
Immortal Beloved 1994

Nanette Streicherová

★ 7.1
Moonacre 1994

Old Elspeth

★ NR
Liberation 1994

Narrator

★ 8
The Thief and the Cobbler 1993

Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

★ 7.1
The Age of Innocence 1993

Mrs. Catherine Mingott

★ 7
Ed and His Dead Mother 1993

Mabel Chilton

★ 5.5
Demonella 1993

Mother

★ NR
Magic Grandad 1993

Grandma

★ 6
Stalin 1992

Krupskaya

★ 5.1
As You Like It 1992

Audrey

★ 5.5
Frannie's Turn 1992

Frannie Escobar

★ 6
The Butcher's Wife 1991

Gina

★ 5.7
Dead Again 1991

Hypnotism Patient

★ 6.4
Rugrats 1991

Shirley Finster (voice)

★ 7.6
Echoes That Remain 1991

Narrator (voice)

★ 7
The Fool 1990

Mrs. Bowring

★ 7
Pacific Heights 1990

Realtor

★ 6.3
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship 1990

Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

★ 8.1
Orpheus Descending 1990

Vee Talbot

★ 4
I Love You to Death 1990

Joey's Mother

★ 6.4
Old Flames 1990

Nellie

★ NR
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story 1989

Elsa Maxwell

★ 4.5
Unexplained Laughter 1989

Laughter (voice)

★ NR
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story 1989

Mrs. Rajzman

★ 6.6
Blackadder's Christmas Carol 1988

Queen Victoria

★ 7.7
Little Dorrit 1987

Flora Finching

★ 6.5
Body Contact 1987

Tony's Mother

★ 4.2
A Little Princess 1987

Miss Amelia

★ 7.5
Little Shop of Horrors 1986

Dental Nurse

★ 7
Scotch & Wry 1986

★ 10
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures 1986

★ NR
Muzzy in Gondoland 1986

The Queen (voice)

★ 8.6
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors 1986

Miss N. Shortt

★ NR
The Good Father 1985

Jane Powell

★ 5.7
Oliver Twist 1985

★ 5.6
Morons from Outer Space 1985

Doctor Wallace

★ 4.7
Freud 1984

Baroness von Lieben

★ 3
Electric Dreams 1984

Ticket Girl

★ 6.3
Yentl 1983

Sarah

★ 6.7
Blackadder 1983

Lady Whiteadder

★ 8
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti 1983

(voice)

★ 5.3
The Comic Strip Presents... 1982

Mother

★ 7.4
Scrubbers 1982

Jones

★ 5.2
Reds 1981

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

★ 6.9
A Kick Up the Eighties 1981

★ 6.5
Take a Letter, Mr. Jones 1981

★ 4
The History Man 1981

Melissa Tordoroff

★ 4.1
The Apple 1980

Landlady

★ 4.4
The Awakening 1980

Dr. Kadira

★ 5.4
Tales of the Unexpected 1979

Mary Burge

★ 6.7
On a Paving Stone Mounted 1978

★ NR
Monkey 1978

Narator

★ 8.5
The Thin End of the Wedge 1977

Veronica

★ NR
Confessions from a Holiday Camp 1977

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

★ 5.2
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers 1977

Elephant Ethel

★ 4.8
The Lifeswappers 1976

Miriam/Miss Babberton

★ NR
Kizzy 1976

★ 6
The Battle of Billy's Pond 1976

Tour Guide

★ 6.7
Naughty Girls 1975

Voice

★ NR
Angels 1975

★ 3.7
Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1975

★ 7
The Girls of Slender Means 1975

Jane Wright

★ 1
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter 1974

★ NR
Fall of Eagles 1974

Anna Vyrubova

★ 6.9
On the Game 1974

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

★ 3.6
Play for Today 1970

Veronica

★ 6.3
A Nice Girl Like Me 1969

Pensione

★ NR
The Ha-Ha 1969

Kathie

★ NR
At the Eleventh Hour 1967

★ NR

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