Biography
Miriam Margoyles 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).
Filmography
all 202
Movies 125
TV Shows 77
self 39
Voice 32
Narrator 4
Self - Presenter
Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand (2025)
TV
Badjelly (voice)
Badjelly (2025)
TV
Self - Presenter
Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure (2024)
TV
Narrator (voice)
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved (2024)
Movie
The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials (2023)
Movie
Aunt One (voice)
Mog's Christmas (2023)
Movie
Granny Vera
Next to You (2023)
Movie
Self – Narrator (voice)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story (2023)
Movie
Sylvie (voice)
Dog Squad (2022)
TV
Miss Bamford
H Is for Happiness (2021)
Movie
Narrator / Creator
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership (2021)
TV
Audrey
Wings (2020)
Movie
Self - Host
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian (2020)
TV
Self - Presenter
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure (2020)
TV
Prudence Stanley
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
Movie
Narrator (UK version)
The Last Artifact (2020)
Movie
Herself - Presenter
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure (2019)
TV
Self - Voiceover
Flipping Profit (2018)
TV
Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
Apple & Onion (2018)
TV
Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Early Man (2018)
Movie
4.28
Wulftrud (voice)
The Little Vampire 3D (2017)
Movie
7
Self - Friend & Actress
Ken Dodd: In His Own Words (2016)
Movie
Host (Herself)
The Real Marigold on Tour (2016)
TV
Weathersnike
Bottersnikes & Gumbles (2016)
TV
Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
Spirit-ED (2015)
Movie
Maria Aponte
Mother (2015)
Movie
The Queen (voice)
Maya the Bee Movie (2014)
Movie
Mrs. Mark
The Seventeenth Kind (2014)
Movie
Patricia
Honeysuckle (2014)
Movie
Nana Sheila
Nina Needs to Go! (2013)
TV
Iona
Plebs (2013)
TV
6
Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas (2012)
Movie
Patricia
The Wedding Video (2012)
Movie
Mrs. Kilbride
A Closed Book (2012)
Movie
Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
Sir Billi (2012)
Movie
Aunt Prudence
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
TV
4.83
Pomona Sprout (archive footage)
Honest Trailers (2012)
TV
6
Mother Mildred
Call the Midwife (2012)
TV
5.45
Mummy Socks (voice)
The Itch of the Golden Nit (2011)
Movie
Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
Movie
7
Mrs. Kowalski
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
Movie
Grunhilda
Merlin (2008)
TV
7.4
Self - Panellist
Q&A (2008)
TV
Aunt Vee
The Dukes (2007)
Movie
Henny Leach
Kingdom (2007)
TV
6
Narrator (voice)
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
Movie
Joyce Midge
Jam and Jerusalem (2006)
TV
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Happy Feet (2006)
Movie
6.43
Rita's Grandma (voice)
Flushed Away (2006)
Movie
6.29
Aunt Bessie
Wallis & Edward (2005)
Movie
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
American Dad! (2005)
TV
6.24
Mrs. Price-Ridley
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
TV
6.11
Dolly de Vries
Being Julia (2004)
Movie
3
Gertrude Stein
Modigliani (2004)
Movie
Thelma & Selma
Undertaking Betty (2002)
Movie
Caseworker
Alone (2002)
Movie
Ester Cailingold (voice)
In Search of Peace (2001)
Movie
Sophie the Castle Maid
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Movie
5.5
Auntie Beth
House! (2000)
Movie
Faye Barringer (uncredited)
Magnolia (1999)
Movie
6
Signora Caldoni
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Movie
Rose Sonnenschein
Sunshine (1999)
Movie
Sean McDuck (voice)
The First Snow of Winter (1998)
Movie
Fly (voice)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
Movie
Miss Crawley
Vanity Fair (1998)
TV
1
The Matchmaker (voice)
Mulan (1998)
Movie
6.89
Mrs. Goldblum
Left Luggage (1998)
Movie
Sugar Plum
The IMAX Nutcracker (1997)
Movie
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Movie
6.89
Grandma Rosy
Balto (1995)
Movie
5.44
Fly (voice)
Babe (1995)
Movie
7.25
Mrs. Beetle
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Movie
Nanette Streicherová
Immortal Beloved (1994)
Movie
6
Old Elspeth
Moonacre (1994)
TV
Narrator
Liberation (1994)
Movie
Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
Movie
Mrs. Catherine Mingott
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Movie
2
Mabel Chilton
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
Movie
4.25
Mother
Demonella (1993)
Movie
Grandma
Magic Grandad (1993)
TV
Krupskaya
Stalin (1992)
Movie
Frannie Escobar
Frannie's Turn (1992)
TV
Hypnotism Patient
Dead Again (1991)
Movie
6
Shirley Finster (voice)
Rugrats (1991)
TV
7.44
Narrator (voice)
Echoes That Remain (1991)
Movie
Mrs. Wadhurst
Tonight at 8.30 (1991)
TV
Mrs. Bowring
The Fool (1990)
Movie
Realtor
Pacific Heights (1990)
Movie
6
Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990)
Movie
Vee Talbot
Orpheus Descending (1990)
Movie
Joey's Mother
I Love You to Death (1990)
Movie
Nellie
Old Flames (1990)
Movie
Laughter (voice)
Unexplained Laughter (1989)
Movie
Queen Victoria
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
Movie
Flora Finching
Little Dorrit (1987)
Movie
Tony's Mother
Body Contact (1987)
Movie
Miss Amelia
A Little Princess (1987)
TV
8
Dental Nurse
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Movie
7
Nurse Hopkins
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986)
TV
4.75
The Queen (voice)
Muzzy in Gondoland (1986)
TV
Jane Powell
The Good Father (1985)
Movie
Doctor Wallace
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Movie
Baroness von Lieben
Freud (1984)
TV
Ticket Girl
Electric Dreams (1984)
Movie
Sarah
Yentl (1983)
Movie
Self
Wogan (1982)
TV
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
Reds (1981)
Movie
5
Melissa Tordoroff
The History Man (1981)
TV
Landlady
The Apple (1980)
Movie
Queenie
The Lost Tribe (1980)
TV
Dr. Kadira
The Awakening (1980)
Movie
Mary Burge
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
TV
Narator
Monkey (1978)
TV
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
Movie
6
Elephant Ethel
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers (1977)
Movie
Miriam/Miss Babberton
The Lifeswappers (1976)
Movie
Tour Guide
The Battle of Billy's Pond (1976)
Movie
Jane Wright
The Girls of Slender Means (1975)
TV
Anna Vyrubova
Fall of Eagles (1974)
TV
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
On the Game (1974)
Movie
Veronica
Play for Today (1970)
TV
Pensione
A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)
Movie
Kathie
The Ha-Ha (1969)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1941-05-18 (83 years old)
Birth NameMiriam Margolyes
Birth PlaceOxford, United Kingdom
Height155-centimeter
RelationshipsHeather Sutherland
CitizenshipsAustralia, United Kingdom
Also Known AsMiriam Margolyes, OBE, میریام مارگولیس
AwardsAudie Award for Best Female Narrator, Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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