
Miriam Margolyes
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
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Pomona Sprout
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Pomona Sprout
Mulan
The Matchmaker (voice)
Magnolia
Faye Barringer (uncredited)
Romeo + Juliet
Nurse
Balto
Grandma Rosy
Happy Feet
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
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Filmography
Acting (207)
Movies (131)
Holy Days
2026as Sister Luke
A Friend of Dorothy
2025as Dorothy
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024as self
How To Make It In Comedy
2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024as Narrator (voice)
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023as Self - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Mog's Christmas
2023as Aunt One (voice)
My Happy Ending
2023as Judy
Hilda: The Fairy Isle
2023as Aunt Astrid (Voice)
Next to You
2023as Granny Vera
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022as Self
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022as Self
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022as Self
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022as Self
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022as Self
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022as Self
H Is for Happiness
2021as Miss Bamford
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020as Prudence Stanley
Wings
2020as Audrey
The Last Artifact
2020as Narrator (UK version)
Early Man
2018as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Postcards from the 48%
2018
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017as Mrs. Fisk
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017as Herself
The Little Vampire 3D
2017as Wulftrud (voice)
Peter and the Wolf
2017as Narrator
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016as Self
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015Mother
2015as Maria Aponte
Spirit-ED
2015as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
Maya the Bee Movie
2014as Queen (voice)
Honeysuckle
2014as Patricia
Outlier
2014
The Legend of Longwood
2014as Lady Thyrza
The Seventeenth Kind
2014as Mrs. Mark
The Guilt Trip
2012as Anita
Sir Billi
2012as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
The Wedding Video
2012as Patricia
A Closed Book
2012as Mrs. Kilbride
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011as Pomona Sprout
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011as Mummy Socks (voice)
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011as Self
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008as Self
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008as Mrs. Kowalski
We Are Most Amused
2008as Self
The Dukes
2007as Aunt Vee
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007as Narrator (voice)
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007as Narrator
Happy Feet
2006as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Flushed Away
2006as Rita's Grandma (voice)
Wallis & Edward
2005as Aunt Bessie
Chasing Liberty
2004as Maria
Modigliani
2004as Gertrude Stein
Ladies in Lavender
2004as Dorcas
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004as Peg Sellers
Being Julia
2004as Dolly de Vries
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004as Cook
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002as Pomona Sprout
Alone
2002as Caseworker
Undertaking Betty
2002as Thelma & Selma
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
Cats & Dogs
2001as Sophie the Castle Maid
In Search of Peace
2001as Ester Cailingold (voice)
House!
2000as Auntie Beth
Magnolia
1999as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
End of Days
1999as Mabel
Sunshine
1999as Rose Sonnenschein
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999as Signora Caldoni
Mulan
1998as The Matchmaker (voice)
The First Snow of Winter
1998as Sean McDuck (voice)
Babe: Pig in the City
1998as Fly (voice)
The Long Way Home
1997as (voice)
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997as Sugar Plum
Romeo + Juliet
1996as Nurse
James and the Giant Peach
1996as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Different for Girls
1996as Pamela
Babe
1995as Fly (voice)
Balto
1995as Grandma Rosy
Cold Comfort Farm
1995as Mrs. Beetle
Immortal Beloved
1994as Nanette Streicherová
Liberation
1994as Narrator
The Age of Innocence
1993as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
Demonella
1993as Mother
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993as Mabel Chilton
As You Like It
1992as Audrey
Stalin
1992as Krupskaya
Dead Again
1991as Hypnotism Patient
Echoes That Remain
1991as Narrator (voice)
The Butcher's Wife
1991as Gina
Pacific Heights
1990as Realtor
I Love You to Death
1990as Joey's Mother
Orpheus Descending
1990as Vee Talbot
The Fool
1990as Mrs. Bowring
Old Flames
1990as Nellie
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
Unexplained Laughter
1989as Laughter (voice)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989as Mrs. Rajzman
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988as Queen Victoria
Body Contact
1987as Tony's Mother
Little Dorrit
1987as Flora Finching
Little Shop of Horrors
1986as Dental Nurse
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986as Miss N. Shortt
Scotch & Wry
1986
Morons from Outer Space
1985as Doctor Wallace
The Good Father
1985as Jane Powell
Electric Dreams
1984as Ticket Girl
Yentl
1983as Sarah
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983as Narrator (voice)
Scrubbers
1982as Jones
Crystal Gazing
1982as Newsreader
Reds
1981as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
The Awakening
1980as Dr. Kadira
The Apple
1980as Landlady
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977as Elephant Ethel
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977as Veronica
The Lifeswappers
1976as Miriam/Miss Babberton
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976as Tour Guide
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975Naughty Girls
1975as Voice
On the Game
1974as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Ha-Ha
1969as Kathie
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969as Pensione
Angels in the Asylum
Television (76)
Badjelly
2025as Badjelly (voice)
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025as Self - Presenter
Doctor Who
2024as The Meep (voice)
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024as Self
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023as Self
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023as Self
Dog Squad
2022as Sylvie (voice)
Remembers…
2022as Self
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022as Self - Host
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021as Self
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021as Narrator
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020as Self - Presenter
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020as Self - Host
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019as Herself - Presenter
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019as Herself
Apple & Onion
2018as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018as Herself
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017as Self
Bucket
2017as Mim
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016as Self
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016as Host (Herself)
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016as Self
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014as Self
The Last Leg
2013as Self
Plebs
2013as Iona
Call the Midwife
2012as Sister Mildred
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012as Aunt Prudence
Trollied
2011
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
The Project
2009
Merlin
2008as Grunhilda
Q&A
2008as Self - Panellist
The Graham Norton Show
2007as Self
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007as Leaf Blathereen (voice)
Kingdom
2007as Henny Leach
Jam and Jerusalem
2006as Mrs. Joyce Midge
American Dad!
2005as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
Dickens in America
2005as Host
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004as Mrs. Price-Ridley
Dickens
2002as Catherine Dickens
Family Guy
1999as Right Eyeball (voice)
Vanity Fair
1998as Miss Crawley
Vanity Fair
1998as Miss Crawley
Supply and Demand
1998as Edna
Dharma & Greg
1997as Chloe
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997as Cook
Moonacre
1994as Old Elspeth
Magic Grandad
1993as Grandma
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992as Self
Frannie's Turn
1992as Frannie Escobar
Rugrats
1991as Shirley Finster (voice)
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989as Elsa Maxwell
A Little Princess
1987as Miss Amelia
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986as Nurse Hopkins
Muzzy in Gondoland
1986as The Queen (voice)
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Oliver Twist
1985
Freud
1984as Baroness von Lieben
Blackadder
1983as Queen Victoria
Wogan
1982as Self
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
The History Man
1981as Melissa Tordoroff
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981as Maria
Tales of the Unexpected
1979as Mary Burge
An Audience with...
1978as Self
Monkey
1978as Narator
Monkey
1978as Demon (voice)
Kizzy
1976as Mrs Doe
Angels
1975
The Girls of Slender Means
1975as Jane Wright
Fall of Eagles
1974as Anna Vyrubova
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Play for Today
1970as Veronica
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
Theatre 625
1964as Rita
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