
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).

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

Self
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
Sir Billi

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

Aunt Bessie
Wallis & Edward

Mrs. Kowalski
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Mabel Chilton
Ed and His Dead Mother

Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Pensione
A Nice Girl Like Me

Grandma Rosy
Balto

Dorcas
Ladies in Lavender

Dolly de Vries
Being Julia

Gertrude Stein
Modigliani

Elephant Ethel
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Vee Talbot
Orpheus Descending

Pomona Sprout
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Dental Nurse
Little Shop of Horrors

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Confessions from a Holiday Camp

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
Reds

Anita
The Guilt Trip

Doctor Wallace
Morons from Outer Space

Gina
The Butcher's Wife

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

Narrator (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

Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Early Man

Nellie
Old Flames

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

Cook
The Phoenix and the Carpet

Narrator
Peter and the Wolf

Newsreader
Crystal Gazing

Aunt Astrid (Voice)
Hilda: The Fairy Isle
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
131
Gender
Female
Birthday
1941-05-18
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Also Known As
Miriam Margolyes, OBE