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Miriam Margolyesborn 1941 (84)

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Actor

Popularity

0.8

Famous

Biography

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).

Credits

A Friend of Dorothy

2025

Comedy • Drama

as Dorothy

0.5

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

2025

Documentary

0.8

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

2024

Documentary

as self

6(1)

0.9

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

2024

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

0.6

How To Make It In Comedy

2024

Documentary

1.2

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

2023

Adventure • Drama • Science Fiction

as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

9.2(9)

0.4

Mog's Christmas

2023

Animation • Comedy • Family

as Aunt One (voice)

7.3(11)

1.1

Doctor Who: The Star Beast

2023

as Meep

8.3(3)

1.2

Next to You

2023

Drama • Thriller

as Granny Vera

3.5(1)

0.7

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

2023

Documentary

as Self – Narrator (voice)

7.5(6)

My Happy Ending

2023

Comedy • Drama

as Judy

6.6(28)

0.6

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

2022

as Self

10(1)

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

2022

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

10(3)

0.8

The Fringe, Fame and Me

2022

Documentary

as Self

1.2

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

2022

Documentary

as Self

8(1)

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

2022

Documentary

as Self

8(1)

0.9

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

2022

Documentary

as Self

0.1

H Is for Happiness

2021

Family

as Miss Bamford

6.7(11)

0.7

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

2021

Documentary • TV Movie

7.5(1)

0.2

Wings

2020

as Audrey

0.2

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

2020

Adventure • Drama • Mystery

as Prudence Stanley

6.1(111)

1.5

The Last Artifact

2020

Documentary

as Narrator (UK version)

0.4

Postcards from the 48%

2018

Documentary

6(1)

1.5

Early Man

2018

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family

as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

6.1(829)

2.5

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

2017

Documentary

as Herself

7.4(92)

1.7

The Man Who Invented Christmas

2017

Comedy • Drama • Family • History

as Mrs. Fisk

6.8(832)

2.4

The Little Vampire 3D

2017

Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Wulftrud (voice)

6.1(164)

1.9

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

2016

Documentary

as Self

8(1)

0.7

The Importance of Being Miriam

2015

Comedy • Music

0.7

Spirit-ED

2015

as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

5(1)

0.1

Mother

2015

as Maria Aponte

0.4

The Legend of Longwood

2014

Adventure • Drama • Family

as Lady Thyrza

5.2(12)

0.8

Outlier

2014

Comedy • Drama

0.3

Maya the Bee Movie

2014

Animation • Family

as Queen (voice)

6.2(177)

1.7

The Seventeenth Kind

2014

Comedy • Science Fiction

as Mrs. Mark

1.6

Honeysuckle

2014

as Patricia

0.8

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

2012

Animation

as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

6(3)

0.5

The Guilt Trip

2012

Comedy

as Anita

5.6(730)

2.5

The Wedding Video

2012

Comedy

as Patricia

5.4(38)

0.7

A Closed Book

2012

Action • Science Fiction • Thriller

as Mrs. Kilbride

5.5(19)

0.5

Sir Billi

2012

Adventure • Animation • Comedy

as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

3.2(19)

0.8

When Harry Left Hogwarts

2011

Documentary

as Self

7(9)

1.1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

2011

Adventure • Fantasy

as Pomona Sprout

8.1(21,205)

17.1

The Itch of the Golden Nit

2011

Adventure • Animation • Family

as Mummy Socks (voice)

7.7(3)

1.1

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

2010

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy

as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

6.8(2,363)

We Are Most Amused

2008

Comedy

as Self

7.2(2)

1.5

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

2008

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

4.5(2)

1.1

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2008

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Mrs. Kowalski

6(792)

1.4

The Dukes

2007

Comedy • Crime • Drama • Music

as Aunt Vee

4.6(5)

1.3

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Documentary • TV Movie

as Narrator (voice)

0.5

What the Pythons Did Next...

2007

as Narrator

0.8

Happy Feet

2006

Animation • Comedy • Family

as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

6.2(5,250)

6.2

Flushed Away

2006

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family

as Rita's Grandma (voice)

6.3(3,931)

5.8

Wallis & Edward

2005

Drama • History • Romance

as Aunt Bessie

5.1(6)

0.6

Ladies in Lavender

2004

Drama • Romance

as Dorcas

6.4(133)

1.1

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

2004

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Peg Sellers

6.6(180)

1.1

Being Julia

2004

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Dolly de Vries

6.5(113)

1.1

Modigliani

2004

Drama

as Gertrude Stein

7.1(199)

1.7

Chasing Liberty

2004

Comedy • Romance

as Maria

6.2(624)

2.6

Undertaking Betty

2002

Comedy • Romance

as Thelma & Selma

6.1(105)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002

Adventure • Fantasy

as Pomona Sprout

7.7(22,732)

21.1

Alone

2002

Horror • Mystery • Thriller

as Caseworker

4.6(7)

1.2

In Search of Peace

2001

Documentary • History • War

as Ester Cailingold (voice)

6.5(2)

0.2

Cats & Dogs

2001

Action • Adventure • Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Sophie the Castle Maid

5.4(1,673)

2.8

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

2001

Drama

0.9

House!

2000

Comedy

as Auntie Beth

6.3(9)

0.7

Magnolia

1999

Drama

as Faye Barringer (uncredited)

7.7(3,721)

4.9

End of Days

1999

Action • Fantasy • Horror

as Mabel

6.1(1,931)

2.9

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

Drama • Romance

as Signora Caldoni

6(9)

0.8

Sunshine

1999

Drama • History • Romance • War

as Rose Sonnenschein

6.5(141)

1.3

The First Snow of Winter

1998

Animation • Family

as Sean McDuck (voice)

6.5(23)

1.2

Babe: Pig in the City

1998

Adventure • Comedy • Drama • Family

as Fly (voice)

5.6(1,267)

2.2

Mulan

1998

Adventure • Animation • Family

as The Matchmaker (voice)

7.9(10,052)

11.5

The IMAX Nutcracker

1997

as Sugar Plum

0.1

The Long Way Home

1997

Documentary • History • War

as (voice)

7.1(11)

0.9

Romeo + Juliet

1996

Drama • Romance

as Nurse

6.8(5,127)

3.5

Different for Girls

1996

Comedy

as Pamela

7.2(36)

0.6

James and the Giant Peach

1996

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy

as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

6.6(1,367)

2.7

Balto

1995

Adventure • Animation • Family

as Grandma Rosy

7.3(2,096)

2.1

Babe

1995

Comedy • Drama • Family • Fantasy

as Fly (voice)

6.2(2,986)

3.3

Cold Comfort Farm

1995

Comedy • Romance

as Mrs. Beetle

6.8(75)

0.5

Immortal Beloved

1994

Drama • Music • Romance

as Nanette Streicherová

7.1(347)

Liberation

1994

Documentary • History • War

as Narrator

8(5)

1.6

The Thief and the Cobbler

1993

Animation • Family • Fantasy • Romance

as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

7.1(130)

1.5

The Age of Innocence

1993

Drama • Romance

as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

7(1,144)

Ed and His Dead Mother

1993

Comedy • Horror

as Mabel Chilton

5.5(47)

0.9

Demonella

1993

Comedy

as Mother

0.6

Stalin

1992

Drama • History • TV Movie • War

as Krupskaya

5.1(35)

1.5

As You Like It

1992

Romance

as Audrey

5.5(2)

0.5

The Butcher's Wife

1991

Comedy • Fantasy • Romance

as Gina

5.7(171)

1.2

Dead Again

1991

Crime • Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Hypnotism Patient

6.4(389)

1.7

Echoes That Remain

1991

Documentary • History

as Narrator (voice)

7(1)

0.1

The Fool

1990

Drama

as Mrs. Bowring

7(2)

Pacific Heights

1990

Drama • Mystery • Thriller

as Realtor

6.3(387)

1.8

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

1990

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy

as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

8.1(11)

1.4

Orpheus Descending

1990

Drama • Romance • TV Movie

as Vee Talbot

4(3)

0.3

I Love You to Death

1990

Comedy • Crime • Romance

as Joey's Mother

6.4(268)

Old Flames

1990

Comedy • Drama • TV Movie

as Nellie

0.7

Unexplained Laughter

1989

Drama • TV Movie

as Laughter (voice)

0.3

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989

Drama • TV Movie • War

as Mrs. Rajzman

6.6(5)

1.2

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

1988

Comedy • TV Movie

as Queen Victoria

7.7(25)

0.6

Little Dorrit

1987

Drama

as Flora Finching

6.5(11)

Body Contact

1987

Drama • Music • Thriller

as Tony's Mother

4.2(3)

0.3

Little Shop of Horrors

1986

Comedy • Horror

as Dental Nurse

7(1,518)

2.7

Scotch & Wry

1986

Comedy

10(1)

0.4

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

1986

as Miss N. Shortt

0.5

The Good Father

1985

Drama

as Jane Powell

5.7(13)

1.1

Morons from Outer Space

1985

Comedy • Science Fiction

as Doctor Wallace

4.7(43)

1.3

Electric Dreams

1984

Comedy • Music • Science Fiction

as Ticket Girl

6.3(178)

1.5

Yentl

1983

Drama • Music • Romance

as Sarah

6.7(247)

1.4

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

1983

Documentary

as (voice)

5.3(3)

0.1

Scrubbers

1982

Drama

as Jones

5.2(21)

1.4

Reds

1981

Drama • History • Romance

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

6.9(346)

1.6

The Apple

1980

Comedy • Fantasy • Music • Science Fiction

as Landlady

4.4(56)

1.1

The Awakening

1980

Horror

as Dr. Kadira

5.5(79)

1.3

On a Paving Stone Mounted

1978

Drama

The Thin End of the Wedge

1977

Comedy • TV Movie

as Veronica

0.6

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

1977

Comedy • Romance

as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

5.2(19)

1.4

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

1977

Comedy

as Elephant Ethel

4.8(5)

1.1

The Lifeswappers

1976

Drama

as Miriam/Miss Babberton

1.3

The Battle of Billy's Pond

1976

Family

as Tour Guide

6.7(3)

1.5

Naughty Girls

1975

Drama

as Voice

0.1

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1975

Adventure • Drama

7(1)

0.1

On the Game

1974

Comedy

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

3.6(5)

0.7

A Nice Girl Like Me

1969

Comedy

as Pensione

0.1

The Ha-Ha

1969

Drama • TV Movie

as Kathie

0.3

Holy Days

Adventure • Comedy

0.2

Angels in the Asylum

Drama

0.3