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