Miriam Margolyes

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).

Known For

Nurse

Romeo + Juliet

Narrator (voice)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

Joey's Mother

I Love You to Death

Peg Sellers

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Matchmaker (voice)

Mulan

Narrator (UK version)

The Last Artifact

Mrs. Catherine Mingott

The Age of Innocence

Realtor

Pacific Heights

Thelma & Selma

Undertaking Betty

Scotch & Wry

Sophie the Castle Maid

Cats & Dogs

Rita's Grandma (voice)

Flushed Away

Fly (voice)

Babe: Pig in the City

Mrs. Beetle

Cold Comfort Farm

Pomona Sprout

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Mabel

End of Days

Fly (voice)

Babe

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Happy Feet

Nanette Streicherová

Immortal Beloved

Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Caseworker

Alone

Aunt Vee

The Dukes

Jane Powell

The Good Father

Flora Finching

Little Dorrit

Dr. Kadira

The Awakening

Landlady

The Apple

Rose Sonnenschein

Sunshine

Ticket Girl

Electric Dreams

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Magnolia

Signora Caldoni

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Jones

Scrubbers

Aunt One (voice)

Mog's Christmas

Krupskaya

Stalin

Sean McDuck (voice)

The First Snow of Winter

Queen Victoria

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Pamela

Different for Girls

Hypnotism Patient

Dead Again

Patricia

The Wedding Video

Self – Narrator (voice)

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

Judy

My Happy Ending

Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

(voice)

The Long Way Home

Tony's Mother

Body Contact

Voice

Naughty Girls

Self

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Kathie

The Ha-Ha

Narrator

Liberation

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

Sir Billi

Self

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

Mrs. Mark

The Seventeenth Kind

Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Lifeswappers

Mummy Socks (voice)

The Itch of the Golden Nit

Laughter (voice)

Unexplained Laughter

Audrey

As You Like It

Pomona Sprout

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pensione

A Nice Girl Like Me

Elephant Ethel

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Reds

Doctor Wallace

Morons from Outer Space

Dental Nurse

Little Shop of Horrors

Vee Talbot

Orpheus Descending

Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Gina

The Butcher's Wife

Mabel Chilton

Ed and His Dead Mother

Grandma Rosy

Balto

Dorcas

Ladies in Lavender

Dolly de Vries

Being Julia

Gertrude Stein

Modigliani

Aunt Bessie

Wallis & Edward

Mrs. Kowalski

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Anita

The Guilt Trip

Mother

Demonella

Self

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Auntie Beth

House!

Queen (voice)

Maya the Bee Movie

Lady Thyrza

The Legend of Longwood

Self

When Harry Left Hogwarts

Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

Outlier

Self

We Are Most Amused

Self

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

Sarah

Yentl

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Mrs. Rajzman

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Mrs. Bowring

The Fool

Narrator (voice)

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

Tour Guide

The Battle of Billy's Pond

The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

Patricia

Honeysuckle

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

On the Game

(voice)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

Mrs. Fisk

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Narrator (voice)

Echoes That Remain

Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

Spirit-ED

Mrs. Kilbride

A Closed Book

Herself

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

Wulftrud (voice)

The Little Vampire 3D

Nellie

Old Flames

Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Early Man

Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

The Thief and the Cobbler

Postcards from the 48%

Prudence Stanley

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Miss Bamford

H Is for Happiness

Narrator

What the Pythons Did Next...

Veronica

The Thin End of the Wedge

Audrey

Wings

Sugar Plum

The IMAX Nutcracker

Ester Cailingold (voice)

In Search of Peace

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

Granny Vera

Pored tebe

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

Self

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Maria

Chasing Liberty

How To Make It In Comedy

Holy Days

The Importance of Being Miriam

Angels in the Asylum

Maria Aponte

Mother

self

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

Dorothy

A Friend of Dorothy

Self

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

Miss N. Shortt

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

Meep

Doctor Who: The Star Beast

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

128

Gender

Female

Birthday

1941-05-18

Place of Birth

Oxford, England, UK

Also Known As

Miriam Margolyes, OBE