Miriam Margolyes

Actor May 18 (age 84) Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK 1964–2026 (62 year career)

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Biography

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).

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Pomona Sprout

Film

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Pomona Sprout

Film

Mulan

The Matchmaker (voice)

Film

Magnolia

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Film

Romeo + Juliet

Nurse

Film

Balto

Grandma Rosy

Film

Happy Feet

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Film

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

Filmography

Acting (207)

Movies (131)

Holy Days

as Sister Luke

A Friend of Dorothy

as Dorothy

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

2025

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

as self

6.0

How To Make It In Comedy

2024

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

2024

as Narrator (voice)

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.5

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

2023

as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Mog's Christmas

as Aunt One (voice)

My Happy Ending

as Judy

Hilda: The Fairy Isle

2023

as Aunt Astrid (Voice)

9.0

Next to You

2023

as Granny Vera

3.5

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

2022

as Self

8.0

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

2022

as Self

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

2022

as Self

10.0

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022

as Self

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

2022

as Self

8.0

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

as Self

H Is for Happiness

as Miss Bamford

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

2021

7.5

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

2020

as Prudence Stanley

6.1

Wings

2020

as Audrey

The Last Artifact

2020

as Narrator (UK version)

Early Man

2018

as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

6.1

Postcards from the 48%

2018

6.0

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

as Mrs. Fisk

6.8

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

2017

as Herself

7.3

The Little Vampire 3D

2017

as Wulftrud (voice)

6.1

Peter and the Wolf

2017

as Narrator

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

2016

as Self

8.0

The Importance of Being Miriam

2015

Mother

2015

as Maria Aponte

Spirit-ED

2015

as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

Maya the Bee Movie

as Queen (voice)

Honeysuckle

as Patricia

Outlier

2014

The Legend of Longwood

2014

as Lady Thyrza

5.3

The Seventeenth Kind

2014

as Mrs. Mark

The Guilt Trip

2012

as Anita

5.6

Sir Billi

2012

as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

The Wedding Video

as Patricia

A Closed Book

as Mrs. Kilbride

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

2012

as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

6.0

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011

as Pomona Sprout

8.1

The Itch of the Golden Nit

2011

as Mummy Socks (voice)

7.7

When Harry Left Hogwarts

2011

as Self

7.0

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

2010

as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

6.8

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

as Self

4.5

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

as Mrs. Kowalski

We Are Most Amused

as Self

The Dukes

as Aunt Vee

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

as Narrator (voice)

What the Pythons Did Next...

2007

as Narrator

Happy Feet

2006

as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

6.2

Flushed Away

2006

as Rita's Grandma (voice)

Wallis & Edward

as Aunt Bessie

Chasing Liberty

as Maria

Modigliani

as Gertrude Stein

Ladies in Lavender

as Dorcas

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

as Peg Sellers

Being Julia

as Dolly de Vries

The Phoenix and the Carpet

2004

as Cook

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

as Pomona Sprout

Alone

as Caseworker

Undertaking Betty

as Thelma & Selma

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

2001

Cats & Dogs

2001

as Sophie the Castle Maid

5.4

In Search of Peace

2001

as Ester Cailingold (voice)

House!

as Auntie Beth

Magnolia

as Faye Barringer (uncredited)

End of Days

as Mabel

Sunshine

as Rose Sonnenschein

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

as Signora Caldoni

6.0

Mulan

1998

as The Matchmaker (voice)

7.9

The First Snow of Winter

1998

as Sean McDuck (voice)

6.5

Babe: Pig in the City

as Fly (voice)

The Long Way Home

as (voice)

The IMAX Nutcracker

as Sugar Plum

Romeo + Juliet

1996

as Nurse

6.8

James and the Giant Peach

1996

as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

Different for Girls

as Pamela

Babe

as Fly (voice)

Balto

as Grandma Rosy

Cold Comfort Farm

as Mrs. Beetle

Immortal Beloved

as Nanette Streicherová

Liberation

as Narrator

The Age of Innocence

as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

7.0

The Thief and the Cobbler

1993

as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

7.1

Demonella

1993

as Mother

Ed and His Dead Mother

as Mabel Chilton

As You Like It

as Audrey

Stalin

as Krupskaya

Dead Again

as Hypnotism Patient

Echoes That Remain

as Narrator (voice)

The Butcher's Wife

as Gina

Pacific Heights

as Realtor

I Love You to Death

as Joey's Mother

Orpheus Descending

as Vee Talbot

The Fool

as Mrs. Bowring

Old Flames

as Nellie

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

1990

as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

8.1

Unexplained Laughter

1989

as Laughter (voice)

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989

as Mrs. Rajzman

5.7

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

as Queen Victoria

Body Contact

as Tony's Mother

Little Dorrit

as Flora Finching

Little Shop of Horrors

1986

as Dental Nurse

7.0

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

1986

as Miss N. Shortt

Scotch & Wry

1986

10.0

Morons from Outer Space

as Doctor Wallace

The Good Father

as Jane Powell

Electric Dreams

as Ticket Girl

Yentl

as Sarah

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

as Narrator (voice)

Scrubbers

as Jones

Crystal Gazing

as Newsreader

Reds

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

The Awakening

as Dr. Kadira

The Apple

as Landlady

On a Paving Stone Mounted

1978

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

1977

as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

5.0

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

1977

as Elephant Ethel

4.2

The Thin End of the Wedge

1977

as Veronica

The Lifeswappers

1976

as Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Battle of Billy's Pond

1976

as Tour Guide

6.7

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1975

7.0

Naughty Girls

1975

as Voice

On the Game

1974

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

3.2

The Ha-Ha

1969

as Kathie

A Nice Girl Like Me

1969

as Pensione

Angels in the Asylum

Television (76)

Badjelly

2025

as Badjelly (voice)

10.0

Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand

as Self - Presenter

Doctor Who

as The Meep (voice)

Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian

2024

as Self

6.7

Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer

2023

as Self

Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes

2023

as Self

Dog Squad

2022

as Sylvie (voice)

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked

2022

as Self - Host

6.8

Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland

2021

as Self

7.4

Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership

2021

as Narrator

10.0

Miriam's Big Fat Adventure

2020

as Self - Presenter

7.5

Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian

2020

as Self - Host

7.6

Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

2019

as Herself - Presenter

7.3

Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter

2019

as Herself

Apple & Onion

2018

as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

6.6

Miriam’s Big American Adventure

2018

as Herself

7.5

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

2017

as Self

Bucket

2017

as Mim

5.8

John Bishop: In Conversation with...

2016

as Self

7.0

The Real Marigold on Tour

2016

as Host (Herself)

8.0

The Real Marigold Hotel

2016

as Self

8.0

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

2015

as Self

4.7

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self

The Last Leg

as Self

Plebs

as Iona

Call the Midwife

as Sister Mildred

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

as Aunt Prudence

Trollied

Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga

The Project

Merlin

as Grunhilda

Q&A

as Self - Panellist

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self

7.2

The Sarah Jane Adventures

2007

as Leaf Blathereen (voice)

Kingdom

as Henny Leach

Jam and Jerusalem

as Mrs. Joyce Midge

American Dad!

as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

7.0

Dickens in America

2005

as Host

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Mrs. Price-Ridley

7.8

Dickens

2002

as Catherine Dickens

Family Guy

1999

as Right Eyeball (voice)

Vanity Fair

as Miss Crawley

Vanity Fair

as Miss Crawley

Supply and Demand

as Edna

Dharma & Greg

1997

as Chloe

6.4

The Phoenix and the Carpet

1997

as Cook

Moonacre

1994

as Old Elspeth

Magic Grandad

1993

as Grandma

6.0

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

as Self

Frannie's Turn

as Frannie Escobar

Rugrats

as Shirley Finster (voice)

7.6

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

as Elsa Maxwell

A Little Princess

as Miss Amelia

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

as Nurse Hopkins

Muzzy in Gondoland

as The Queen (voice)

Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures

Oliver Twist

Freud

as Baroness von Lieben

Blackadder

as Queen Victoria

Wogan

as Self

A Kick Up the Eighties

The History Man

as Melissa Tordoroff

Take a Letter, Mr Jones

1981

as Maria

4.0

Tales of the Unexpected

as Mary Burge

An Audience with...

as Self

Monkey

as Narator

Monkey

as Demon (voice)

Kizzy

as Mrs Doe

Angels

The Girls of Slender Means

as Jane Wright

Fall of Eagles

as Anna Vyrubova

Ken Dodd's World of Laughter

Play for Today

as Veronica

At the Eleventh Hour

Theatre 625

as Rita