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).
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
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
128
Gender
Female
Birthday
1941-05-18
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Also Known As
Miriam Margolyes, OBE