Miriam Margolyes

1941-05-18

Oxford, England, UK

Age: 84

ACTING

Biography

Best known for:

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Filmography:

A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)
APPEREAD AS:
Pensione
Play for Today (1970)
APPEREAD AS:
Veronica
Fall of Eagles (1974)
APPEREAD AS:
Anna Vyrubova
On the Game (1974)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Girls of Slender Means (1975)
APPEREAD AS:
Jane Wright
The Battle of Billy's Pond (1976)
APPEREAD AS:
Tour Guide
Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
APPEREAD AS:
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers (1977)
APPEREAD AS:
Elephant Ethel

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The Thin End of the Wedge (1977)
APPEREAD AS:
Veronica
Monkey (1978)
APPEREAD AS:
Narator
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
5.4
APPEREAD AS:
Mary Burge
The Awakening (1980)
4
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Kadira
The Apple (1980)
2.8
APPEREAD AS:
Landlady
Reds (1981)
5.6
APPEREAD AS:
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
The History Man (1981)
APPEREAD AS:
Melissa Tordoroff
The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)
APPEREAD AS:
Mother

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Scrubbers (1982)
APPEREAD AS:
Jones
Blackadder (1983)
6.8
APPEREAD AS:
Lady Whiteadder, Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain
Yentl (1983)
5.3
APPEREAD AS:
Sarah
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1983)
APPEREAD AS:
(voice)
Electric Dreams (1984)
4.9
APPEREAD AS:
Ticket Girl
Freud (1984)
APPEREAD AS:
Baroness von Lieben
Morons from Outer Space (1985)
3.2
APPEREAD AS:
Doctor Wallace
The Good Father (1985)
APPEREAD AS:
Jane Powell
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Dental Nurse
Muzzy in Gondoland (1986)
APPEREAD AS:
The Queen (voice)
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors (1986)
APPEREAD AS:
Miss N. Shortt
A Little Princess (1987)
APPEREAD AS:
Miss Amelia
Little Dorrit (1987)
APPEREAD AS:
Flora Finching
Body Contact (1987)
APPEREAD AS:
Tony's Mother
Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)
APPEREAD AS:
Queen Victoria
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1989)
APPEREAD AS:
Elsa Maxwell
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Rajzman
Unexplained Laughter (1989)
APPEREAD AS:
Laughter (voice)
Pacific Heights (1990)
4.9
APPEREAD AS:
Realtor
I Love You to Death (1990)
5
APPEREAD AS:
Joey's Mother
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990)
APPEREAD AS:
Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
Orpheus Descending (1990)
APPEREAD AS:
Vee Talbot
Old Flames (1990)
APPEREAD AS:
Nellie
Rugrats (1991)
6.4
APPEREAD AS:
Shirley Finster (voice)
Dead Again (1991)
5
APPEREAD AS:
Hypnotism Patient
The Butcher's Wife (1991)
4.3
APPEREAD AS:
Gina
Echoes That Remain (1991)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
Stalin (1992)
APPEREAD AS:
Krupskaya
As You Like It (1992)
APPEREAD AS:
Audrey
The Age of Innocence (1993)
5.9
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Catherine Mingott
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
4
APPEREAD AS:
Mabel Chilton
Demonella (1993)
APPEREAD AS:
Mother
Immortal Beloved (1994)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Nanette Streicherová
Liberation (1994)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator
Babe (1995)
5.4
APPEREAD AS:
Fly (voice)
Balto (1995)
6.2
APPEREAD AS:
Grandma Rosy
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Beetle
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
6.5
APPEREAD AS:
Nurse
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
5.4
APPEREAD AS:
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Different for Girls (1996)
APPEREAD AS:
Pamela
Dharma & Greg (1997)
5
APPEREAD AS:
Chloe
The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)
APPEREAD AS:
Cook
The Long Way Home (1997)
APPEREAD AS:
(voice)
The IMAX Nutcracker (1997)
APPEREAD AS:
Sugar Plum
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
4.4
APPEREAD AS:
Fly (voice)
Mulan (1998)
7.7
APPEREAD AS:
The Matchmaker (voice)
Vanity Fair (1998)
APPEREAD AS:
Miss Crawley
Supply and Demand (1998)
APPEREAD AS:
Edna
The First Snow of Winter (1998)
APPEREAD AS:
Sean McDuck (voice)
Magnolia (1999)
7
APPEREAD AS:
Faye Barringer (uncredited)
End of Days (1999)
4.9
APPEREAD AS:
Mabel
Sunshine (1999)
5.2
APPEREAD AS:
Rose Sonnenschein
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
APPEREAD AS:
Signora Caldoni
House! (2000)
APPEREAD AS:
Auntie Beth
Cats & Dogs (2001)
4.1
APPEREAD AS:
Sophie the Castle Maid
In Search of Peace (2001)
APPEREAD AS:
Ester Cailingold (voice)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
7.5
APPEREAD AS:
Pomona Sprout
Undertaking Betty (2002)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
Thelma & Selma
Alone (2002)
APPEREAD AS:
Caseworker
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
6.5
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Price-Ridley
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
5
APPEREAD AS:
Dorcas
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
5.2
APPEREAD AS:
Peg Sellers
Chasing Liberty (2004)
4.9
APPEREAD AS:
Maria
Being Julia (2004)
5.1
APPEREAD AS:
Dolly de Vries
Modigliani (2004)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Gertrude Stein
American Dad! (2005)
5.9
APPEREAD AS:
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
Wallis & Edward (2005)
APPEREAD AS:
Aunt Bessie
Dickens in America (2005)
APPEREAD AS:
Host
Jam and Jerusalem (2006)
APPEREAD AS:
Joyce Midge, Mrs. Joyce Midge
Happy Feet (2006)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Flushed Away (2006)
5.4
APPEREAD AS:
Rita's Grandma (voice)
The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007)
5.8
APPEREAD AS:
Leaf Blathereen (voice)
Kingdom (2007)
APPEREAD AS:
Henny Leach
The Dukes (2007)
APPEREAD AS:
Aunt Vee
What the Pythons Did Next... (2007)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
Merlin (2008)
6.8
APPEREAD AS:
Grunhilda
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
4.6
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Kowalski
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
5.7
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
7.9
APPEREAD AS:
Pomona Sprout
The Itch of the Golden Nit (2011)
APPEREAD AS:
Mummy Socks (voice)
A Closed Book (2012)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Kilbride
Call the Midwife (2012)
6.3
APPEREAD AS:
Mother Mildred
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
6.5
APPEREAD AS:
Aunt Prudence
The Guilt Trip (2012)
4.2
APPEREAD AS:
Anita
The Wedding Video (2012)
APPEREAD AS:
Patricia
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas (2012)
APPEREAD AS:
Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
Sir Billi (2012)
APPEREAD AS:
Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
Plebs (2013)
6
APPEREAD AS:
Iona
Maya the Bee Movie (2014)
4.8
APPEREAD AS:
Queen (voice)
The Legend of Longwood (2014)
APPEREAD AS:
Lady Thyrza
The Seventeenth Kind (2014)
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Mark
Bucket (2017)
APPEREAD AS:
Mim
The Little Vampire 3D (2017)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
Wulftrud (voice)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
5.5
APPEREAD AS:
Mrs. Fisk
Apple & Onion (2018)
APPEREAD AS:
Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)
Early Man (2018)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
Prudence Stanley
Wings (2020)
APPEREAD AS:
Audrey
The Last Artifact (2020)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (UK version)
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership (2021)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator
WORK AS:
Creator
H Is for Happiness (2021)
APPEREAD AS:
Miss Bamford
Dog Squad (2022)
APPEREAD AS:
Sylvie (voice)
Next to You (2023)
APPEREAD AS:
Granny Vera
My Happy Ending (2023)
APPEREAD AS:
Judy
Mog's Christmas (2023)
APPEREAD AS:
Aunt One (voice)
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials (2023)
APPEREAD AS:
The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Star Beast (2023)
APPEREAD AS:
Meep
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved (2024)
APPEREAD AS:
Narrator (voice)
Badjelly (2025)
APPEREAD AS:
Badjelly (voice)
A Friend of Dorothy (2025)
APPEREAD AS:
Dorothy

Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Biography

Best known for:

Filmography:

A Nice Girl Like Me (1969)

Play for Today (1970)

Fall of Eagles (1974)

On the Game (1974)

The Girls of Slender Means (1975)

The Battle of Billy's Pond (1976)

Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers (1977)

The Thin End of the Wedge (1977)

Monkey (1978)

Tales of the Unexpected (1979)

The Awakening (1980)

The Apple (1980)

Reds (1981)

The History Man (1981)

The Comic Strip Presents... (1982)

Scrubbers (1982)

Blackadder (1983)

Yentl (1983)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1983)

Electric Dreams (1984)

Freud (1984)

Morons from Outer Space (1985)

The Good Father (1985)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Muzzy in Gondoland (1986)

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors (1986)

A Little Princess (1987)

Little Dorrit (1987)

Body Contact (1987)

Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1989)

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (1989)

Unexplained Laughter (1989)

Pacific Heights (1990)

I Love You to Death (1990)

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship (1990)

Orpheus Descending (1990)

Old Flames (1990)

Rugrats (1991)

Dead Again (1991)

The Butcher's Wife (1991)

Echoes That Remain (1991)

Stalin (1992)

As You Like It (1992)

The Age of Innocence (1993)

The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)

Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)

Demonella (1993)

Immortal Beloved (1994)

Liberation (1994)

Babe (1995)

Balto (1995)

Cold Comfort Farm (1995)

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Different for Girls (1996)

Dharma & Greg (1997)

The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997)

The Long Way Home (1997)

The IMAX Nutcracker (1997)

Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

Mulan (1998)

Vanity Fair (1998)

Supply and Demand (1998)

The First Snow of Winter (1998)

Magnolia (1999)

End of Days (1999)

Sunshine (1999)

Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)

House! (2000)

Cats & Dogs (2001)

In Search of Peace (2001)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Undertaking Betty (2002)