Miriam Margolyes

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1941-05-18 (83 years old)

Place of Birth Oxford, England, UK

Also Known As Miriam Margolyes, OBE

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

Actor

Badjelly

as Badjelly (voice)

2024
2024
Doctor Who

as The Meep (voice)

2023
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

2023
Mog's Christmas

as Aunt One (voice)

2023
Next to You

as Granny Vera

2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self – Narrator (voice)

2023
2022
Dog Squad

as Sylvie (voice)

2021
H Is for Happiness

as Miss Bamford

2020
Wings

as Audrey

2020
2020
The Last Artifact

as Narrator (UK version)

2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure

as Self - Presenter

2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure

as Herself - Presenter

2018
Early Man

as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

2018
Apple & Onion

as Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

2017
The Little Vampire 3D

as Wulftrud (voice)

2017
Bucket

as Mim

2016
The Real Marigold on Tour

as Host (Herself)

2015
Spirit-ED

as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

2014
Maya the Bee Movie

as The Queen (voice)

2014
2014
Honeysuckle

as Patricia

2013
Plebs

as Iona

2012
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

2012
2012
The Wedding Video

as Patricia

2012
A Closed Book

as Mrs. Kilbride

2012
Sir Billi

as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

2012
The Last Leg

as Herself

2012
2012
Honest Trailers

as Pomona Sprout (archive footage)

2012
Call the Midwife

as Mother Mildred

2012
Call the Midwife

as Sister Mildred

2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit

as Mummy Socks (voice)

2010
2008
2008
Merlin

as Grunhilda

2008
Q&A

as Self - Panellist

2007
The Dukes

as Aunt Vee

2007
2007
Kingdom

as Henny Leach

2006
Happy Feet

as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

2006
Flushed Away

as Rita's Grandma (voice)

2006
Jam & Jerusalem

as Joyce Midge

2005
Wallis & Edward

as Aunt Bessie

2005
2005
American Dad!

as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

2004
2004
Being Julia

as Dolly de Vries

2004
Modigliani

as Gertrude Stein

2004
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Mrs. Price-Ridley

2002
Undertaking Betty

as Thelma & Selma

2002
Alone

as Caseworker

2001
In Search of Peace

as Ester Cailingold (voice)

2001
Cats & Dogs

as Sophie the Castle Maid

2000
House!

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
Mulan

as The Matchmaker (voice)

1998
Vanity Fair

as Miss Crawley

1998
1997
The IMAX Nutcracker

as Sugar Plum

1997
1997
Dharma & Greg

as Chloe

1996
1996
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
Liberation

as Narrator

1994
Moonacre

as Old Elspeth

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
Demonella

as Mother

1993
Magic Grandad

as Grandma

1992
Stalin

as Krupskaya

1992
As You Like It

as Audrey

1992
Frannie's Turn

as Frannie Escobar

1991
1991
Dead Again

as Hypnotism Patient

1991
Echoes That Remain

as Narrator (voice)

1991
Rugrats

as Shirley Finster (voice)

1990
The Fool

as Mrs. Bowring

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
Unexplained Laughter

as Laughter (voice)

1988
1987
Little Dorrit

as Flora Finching

1987
Body Contact

as Tony's Mother

1987
A Little Princess

as Miss Amelia

1986
Little Shop of Horrors

as Dental Nurse

1986
Muzzy in Gondoland

as The Queen (voice)

1985
The Good Father

as Jane Powell

1985
Morons from Outer Space

as Doctor Wallace

1984
Electric Dreams

as Ticket Girl

1984
Freud

as Baroness von Lieben

1983
Yentl

as Sarah

1983
Blackadder

as Lady Whiteadder

1983
Blackadder

as Queen Victoria

1982
Scrubbers

as Jones

1982
Wogan

as Self

1981
Reds

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

1981
The History Man

as Melissa Tordoroff

1980
The Apple

as Landlady

1980
The Awakening

as Dr. Kadira

1979
1978
Monkey

as Narator

1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp

as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

as Elephant Ethel

1976
The Lifeswappers

as Miriam/Miss Babberton

1976
1976
1975
Naughty Girls

as Voice

1975
1975
1974
On the Game

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1974
Fall of Eagles

as Anna Vyrubova

1970
Play for Today

as Veronica

1969
1969
The Ha-Ha

as Kathie