Miriam Margolyes

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Known Credits 170

Gender Female

Birthday 1941-05-18 (82 years old)

Place of Birth Oxford, England, UK

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Miriam Margolyes, OBE

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Miriam Margolyes

Biography

Miriam Margoyles 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 after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).

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Acting

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(1 episode) as The Meep (voice)

2023		Mog's Christmas as (voice)
2023		Next to You as Granny Vera
2023		Blackadder: A Cunning Story as Self – Narrator (voice)
2023		My Happy Ending as Judy
2023		Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer (2 episodes) as Self

2022		Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022		David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count as Self
2022		The Fringe, Fame and Me as Self
2022		Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked (3 episodes) as Self - Host
2022		Judi Dench: Our National Treasure as Self
2022		Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs as Self
2022		The Story of Queen Victoria (3 episodes) as Narrator

2021		Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland (7 episodes) as Self
2021		H Is for Happiness as Miss Bamford
2021		Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

2020		Wings as Audrey
2020		Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian (3 episodes) as Self - Host
2020		The Last Leg: Locked Down Under (1 episode) as Herself
2020		Miriam's Big Fat Adventure (2 episodes) as Self - Presenter
2020		Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears as Prudence Stanley
2020		The Last Artifact as Narrator (UK version)

2019		Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter (1 episode) as Herself
2019		Miriam's Dead Good Adventure (2 episodes) as Herself - Presenter

2018		Postcards from the 48%
2018		Apple & Onion (1 episode) as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
2018		Early Man as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
2018		Miriam’s Big American Adventure (3 episodes) as Herself

2017		Harry Potter: A History Of Magic as Herself
2017		The Man Who Invented Christmas as Mrs. Fisk
2017		The Little Vampire 3D as Wulftrud (voice)
2017		Tate Britain's Great Art Walks (1 episode) as Self
2017		Bucket (4 episodes) as Mim

2016		The Real Marigold on Tour (10 episodes) as Host (Herself)
2016		Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book as Self
2016		John Bishop: In Conversation With... (1 episode) as Herself
2016		The Real Marigold Hotel (3 episodes) as Self

2015

as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

2014		The Legend of Longwood
2014		Outlier
2014		Maya the Bee Movie as The Queen (voice)
2014		The Seventeenth Kind as Mrs. Mark
2014		Late Night with Seth Meyers (1 episode) as Self
2014		Honeysuckle as Patricia

2013		Plebs (1 episode) as Iona
2013		The Last Leg (1 episode) as Herself

2012		The Guilt Trip as Anita
2012		The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
2012		The Wedding Video as Patricia
2012		A Closed Book as Mrs. Kilbride
2012		Sir Billi as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
2012		Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (12 episodes) as Aunt Prudence

2011		Trollied (8 episodes)
2011		Wizard People 2: Spiders and Snakes, Dear Reader as Pomona Sprout
2011		Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as Pomona Sprout
2011		The Itch of the Golden Nit as Mummy Socks (voice)

2010		Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
2010		Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga (52 episodes)

2008		We Are Most Amused as Self
2008		Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments as Self
2008		How to Lose Friends & Alienate People as Mrs. Kowalski
2008		Merlin (1 episode) as Grunhilda
2008		Q&A (1 episode) as Self - Panellist

2007		The Dukes as Aunt Vee
2007		Kingdom (1 episode) as Henny Leach
2007		The Graham Norton Show (10 episodes) as Self - Guest
2007		The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Narrator (voice)
2007		What the Pythons Did Next... as Narrator

2006		Jam & Jerusalem (13 episodes) as Joyce Midge
2006		Happy Feet as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
2006		Flushed Away as Rita's Grandma (voice)

2005		Wallis & Edward as Aunt Bessie
2005		Dickens in America (10 episodes) as Host
2005		American Dad! (1 episode) as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

2004		Agatha Christie's Marple (1 episode) as Mrs. Price-Ridley
2004		Ladies in Lavender as Dorcas
2004		The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Peg Sellers
2004		Being Julia as Dolly de Vries
2004		Modigliani as Gertrude Stein
2004		Chasing Liberty as Maria

2002		Undertaking Betty as Thelma & Selma
2002		Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as Pomona Sprout
2002		Dickens (3 episodes)
2002		Alone as Caseworker

2001		In Search of Peace as Ester Cailingold (voice)
2001		Cats & Dogs as Sophie the Castle Maid
2001		Not Afraid, Not Afraid

2000

as Auntie Beth

1999		Magnolia as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
1999		End of Days as Mabel
1999		Dreaming of Joseph Lees as Signora Caldoni
1999		Sunshine as Rose Sonnenschein

1998		The First Snow of Winter as Sean McDuck (voice)
1998		Babe: Pig in the City as Fly (voice)
1998		Vanity Fair (6 episodes) as Miss Crawley
1998		Supply and Demand (6 episodes) as Edna
1998		Mulan as The Matchmaker (voice)

1997		The IMAX Nutcracker as Sugar Plum
1997		The Phoenix and the Carpet (6 episodes) as Cook
1997		Dharma & Greg (1 episode) as Chloe
1997		The Long Way Home as (voice)

1996		Romeo + Juliet as Nurse
1996		Different for Girls as Pamela
1996		James and the Giant Peach as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

1995		Balto as Grandma Rosy
1995		Babe as Fly (voice)
1995		Cold Comfort Farm as Mrs. Beetle

1994		Immortal Beloved as Nanette Streicherová
1994		Moonacre (6 episodes) as Old Elspeth
1994		Liberation as Narrator

1993		The Thief and the Cobbler as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
1993		The Age of Innocence as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
1993		Ed and His Dead Mother as Mabel Chilton
1993		Magic Grandad (3 episodes) as Grandma

1992		Stalin as Krupskaya
1992		Terry Wogan's Friday Night (1 episode) as Self
1992		As You Like It as Audrey
1992		Frannie's Turn (6 episodes) as Frannie Escobar

1991		The Butcher's Wife as Gina
1991		Dead Again as Hypnotism Patient
1991		Rugrats (1 episode) as Shirley Finster (voice)
1991		Echoes That Remain as Narrator (voice)

1990		Pacific Heights as Realtor
1990		The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
1990		Orpheus Descending as Vee Talbot
1990		I Love You to Death as Joey's Mother
1990		Old Flames as Nellie

1989		Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (6 episodes) as Elsa Maxwell
1989		Unexplained Laughter as Laughter (voice)

1988

as Queen Victoria

1987		Little Dorrit as Flora Finching
1987		A Little Princess (6 episodes) as Miss Amelia
1987		Body Contact as Tony's Mother

1986		Little Shop of Horrors as Dental Nurse
1986		Scotch & Wry
1986		Muzzy in Gondoland (6 episodes) as The Queen

1985		The Good Father as Jane Powell
1985		Oliver Twist (4 episodes)
1985		Morons from Outer Space as Doctor Wallace

1984		Freud (6 episodes) as Baroness von Lieben
1984		Electric Dreams as Ticket Girl

1983		Yentl as Sarah
1983		Blackadder (1 episode) as Lady Whiteadder
1983		Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti as (voice)

1982		The Comic Strip Presents (1 episode) as Mother
1982		Scrubbers as Jones
1982		Wogan (1 episode) as Self

1981		Reds as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
1981		A Kick Up the Eighties (10 episodes)
1981		Take a Letter, Mr. Jones (6 episodes)
1981		The History Man (4 episodes) as Melissa Tordoroff

1980		The Apple as Landlady
1980		The Awakening as Dr. Kadira

1979

(1 episode) as Mary Burge

1978		Monkey (52 episodes) as Narator
1978		An Audience with... (1 episode) as Self

1977		The Thin End of the Wedge as Veronica
1977		Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Elephant Ethel
1977		Confessions from a Holiday Camp as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

1976		The Lifeswappers as Miriam/Miss Babberton
1976		Kizzy (6 episodes)
1976		The Battle of Billy's Pond as Tour Guide

1975		Naughty Girls as Voice
1975		Angels (2 episodes)

1974		Ken Dodd's World of Laughter (19 episodes)
1974		Fall of Eagles (1 episode) as Anna Vyrubova
1974		On the Game as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1969		A Nice Girl Like Me as Pensione
1969		The Ha-Ha as Kathie

1967

(10 episodes)

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