Miriam Margolyes

Biography

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).

Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Monkey

Narator

Rugrats

Shirley Finster (voice)

The Weekly with Charlie Pickering

Self

Q&A

Self - Panellist

American Dad!

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

Merlin

Grunhilda

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025	A Friend of Dorothy	Dorothy
2024	The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved	Narrator (voice)
2024	How To Make It In Comedy
2024	Alec Guinness: A Class Act	self
2023	Mog's Christmas	Aunt One (voice)
2023	Blackadder: A Cunning Story	Self – Narrator (voice)
2023	My Happy Ending	Judy
2023	Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials	The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
2023	Next to You	Granny Vera
2022	imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs	Self
2022	The Fringe, Fame and Me	Self
2022	David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count	Self
2022	Miriam's Dickensian Christmas	Self
2022	Judi Dench: Our National Treasure	Self
2022	The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration	Self
2021	H Is for Happiness	Miss Bamford
2021	Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2020	The Last Artifact	Narrator (UK version)
2020	Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears	Prudence Stanley
2020	Wings	Audrey
2018	Early Man	Queen Oofeefa (voice)
2018	Postcards from the 48%
2017	The Man Who Invented Christmas	Mrs. Fisk
2017	Harry Potter: A History Of Magic	Herself
2017	The Little Vampire 3D	Wulftrud (voice)
2016	Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book	Self
2015	Spirit-ED	Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
2015	The Importance of Being Miriam
2015	Mother	Maria Aponte
2014	The Seventeenth Kind	Mrs. Mark
2014	Maya the Bee Movie	Queen (voice)
2014	The Legend of Longwood
2014	Outlier
2014	Honeysuckle	Patricia
2012	The Wedding Video	Patricia
2012	The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas	Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
2012	Sir Billi	Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
2012	The Guilt Trip	Anita
2012	A Closed Book	Mrs. Kilbride
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2	Pomona Sprout
2011	The Itch of the Golden Nit	Mummy Socks (voice)
2011	When Harry Left Hogwarts	Self
2010	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
2008	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	Mrs. Kowalski
2008	We Are Most Amused	Self
2008	Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments	Self
2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Narrator (voice)
2007	The Dukes	Aunt Vee
2007	What the Pythons Did Next...	Narrator
2006	Flushed Away	Rita's Grandma (voice)
2006	Happy Feet	Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
2005	Wallis & Edward	Aunt Bessie
2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peg Sellers
2004	Ladies in Lavender	Dorcas
2004	Being Julia	Dolly de Vries
2004	Modigliani	Gertrude Stein
2004	Chasing Liberty	Maria
2002	Undertaking Betty	Thelma & Selma
2002	Alone	Caseworker
2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Pomona Sprout
2001	Cats & Dogs	Sophie the Castle Maid
2001	In Search of Peace	Ester Cailingold (voice)
2001	Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2000	House!	Auntie Beth
1999	End of Days	Mabel
1999	Sunshine	Rose Sonnenschein
1999	Magnolia	Faye Barringer (uncredited)
1999	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	Signora Caldoni
1998	Mulan	The Matchmaker (voice)
1998	Babe: Pig in the City	Fly (voice)
1998	The First Snow of Winter	Sean McDuck (voice)
1997	The Long Way Home	(voice)
1997	The IMAX Nutcracker	Sugar Plum
1996	Romeo + Juliet	Nurse
1996	James and the Giant Peach	Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
1996	Different for Girls	Pamela
1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Mrs. Beetle
1995	Babe	Fly (voice)
1995	Balto	Grandma Rosy
1994	Immortal Beloved	Nanette Streicherová
1994	Liberation	Narrator
1993	The Age of Innocence	Mrs. Catherine Mingott
1993	Ed and His Dead Mother	Mabel Chilton
1993	Demonella	Mother
1993	The Thief and the Cobbler	Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
1992	Stalin	Krupskaya
1992	As You Like It	Audrey
1991	Dead Again	Hypnotism Patient
1991	The Butcher's Wife	Gina
1991	Echoes That Remain	Narrator (voice)
1990	I Love You to Death	Joey's Mother
1990	Pacific Heights	Realtor
1990	The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship	Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
1990	Orpheus Descending	Vee Talbot
1990	The Fool	Mrs. Bowring
1990	Old Flames	Nellie
1989	Unexplained Laughter	Laughter (voice)
1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Mrs. Rajzman
1988	Blackadder's Christmas Carol	Queen Victoria
1987	Little Dorrit	Flora Finching
1987	Body Contact	Tony's Mother
1986	Scotch & Wry
1986	Little Shop of Horrors	Dental Nurse
1986	The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors	Miss N. Shortt
1985	The Good Father	Jane Powell
1985	Morons from Outer Space	Doctor Wallace
1984	Electric Dreams	Ticket Girl
1983	Yentl	Sarah
1983	Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti	(voice)
1982	Scrubbers	Jones
1981	Reds	Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
1980	The Awakening	Dr. Kadira
1980	The Apple	Landlady
1978	On a Paving Stone Mounted
1977	Stand up, Virgin Soldiers	Elephant Ethel
1977	Confessions from a Holiday Camp	Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
1977	The Thin End of the Wedge	Veronica
1976	The Lifeswappers	Miriam/Miss Babberton
1976	The Battle of Billy's Pond	Tour Guide
1975	Naughty Girls	Voice
1975	Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1974	On the Game	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1969	The Ha-Ha	Kathie
1969	A Nice Girl Like Me	Pensione
	Holy Days
	Angels in the Asylum

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	Badjelly	Badjelly (voice)
2025	Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand	Self - Presenter
2024	Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian	Self
2023	Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer	Self
2022	Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked	Self - Host
2022	Dog Squad	Sylvie (voice)
2021	Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland	Self
2021	Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership	Narrator
2020	Miriam's Big Fat Adventure	Self - Presenter
2020	Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian	Self - Host
2019	Miriam's Dead Good Adventure	Herself - Presenter
2019	Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter	Herself
2018	Miriam’s Big American Adventure	Herself
2018	Apple & Onion	Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
2017	Tate Britain's Great Art Walks	Self
2017	Bucket	Mim
2016	The Real Marigold Hotel	Self
2016	The Real Marigold on Tour	Host (Herself)
2016	John Bishop: In Conversation with...	Self
2015	The Weekly with Charlie Pickering	Self
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2013	Plebs	Iona
2013	The Last Leg	Self
2012	Call the Midwife	Mother Mildred
2012	Honest Trailers	Pomona Sprout (archive footage)
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Aunt Prudence
2011	Trollied
2010	Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2008	Q&A	Self - Panellist
2008	Merlin	Grunhilda
2007	Kingdom	Henny Leach
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2007	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Leaf Blathereen (voice)
2006	Jam and Jerusalem	Joyce Midge
2005	Dickens in America	Host
2005	American Dad!	Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Mrs. Price-Ridley
2002	Dickens
1998	Supply and Demand	Edna
1998	Vanity Fair	Miss Crawley
1997	Dharma & Greg	Chloe
1997	The Phoenix and the Carpet	Cook
1994	Moonacre	Old Elspeth
1993	Magic Grandad	Grandma
1992	Frannie's Turn	Frannie Escobar
1992	Terry Wogan's Friday Night	Self
1991	Rugrats	Shirley Finster (voice)
1989	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	Elsa Maxwell
1987	A Little Princess	Miss Amelia
1986	Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986	Muzzy in Gondoland	The Queen (voice)
1985	Oliver Twist
1984	Freud	Baroness von Lieben
1983	Blackadder	Lady Whiteadder
1982	Wogan	Self
1982	The Comic Strip Presents...	Mother
1981	Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
1981	A Kick Up the Eighties
1981	The History Man	Melissa Tordoroff
1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Mary Burge
1978	Monkey	Narator
1978	An Audience with...	Self
1976	Kizzy
1975	Angels
1975	The Girls of Slender Means	Jane Wright
1974	Fall of Eagles	Anna Vyrubova
1974	Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1970	Play for Today	Veronica
1967	At the Eleventh Hour