Cast
Miriam Margolyes
Acting
Cast
Miriam Margolyes
Known for
Acting
Born
1941-05-18
From
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Also known as Miriam Margolyes, OBE
Biography
Miriam Margolyes (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).
★7.7
MOVIE2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
as Pomona Sprout
★8.1
MOVIE2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
as Pomona Sprout
★7.9
MOVIE1998
Mulan
as The Matchmaker (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2006
Flushed Away
as Rita's Grandma (voice)
★6.8
MOVIE1996
Romeo + Juliet
as Nurse
★6.2
MOVIE2006
Happy Feet
as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
★7.7
MOVIE1999
Magnolia
as Faye Barringer (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1995
Babe
as Fly (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1986
Little Shop of Horrors
as Dental Nurse
★6.1
MOVIE1999
End of Days
as Mabel
★6.8
MOVIE2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE1995
Balto
as Grandma Rosy
★5.7
MOVIE1998
Babe: Pig in the City
as Fly (voice)
★6.6
MOVIE1996
James and the Giant Peach
as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Early Man
as Queen Oofeefa (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1993
The Age of Innocence
as Mrs. Catherine Mingott
★5.2
MOVIE1982
Scrubbers
as Jones
★6.3
MOVIE1990
Pacific Heights
as Realtor
★5.6
MOVIE2012
The Guilt Trip
as Anita
★6.1
MOVIE2017
The Little Vampire 3D
as Wulftrud (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1991
Dead Again
as Hypnotism Patient
★5.4
MOVIE2001
Cats & Dogs
as Sophie the Castle Maid
★6.2
MOVIE2004
Chasing Liberty
as Maria
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Maya the Bee Movie
as Queen (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Sunshine
as Rose Sonnenschein
★6.8
MOVIE2026
Holy Days
as Sister Luke
★6.0
MOVIE2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Mrs. Kowalski
★7.1
MOVIE1994
Immortal Beloved
as Nanette Streicherová
★6.5
MOVIE2004
Ladies in Lavender
as Dorcas
★6.4
MOVIE1984
Electric Dreams
as Ticket Girl
★6.4
MOVIE1990
I Love You to Death
as Joey's Mother
★7.1
MOVIE1993
The Thief and the Cobbler
as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE1981
Reds
as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE1989
Unexplained Laughter
as Laughter (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Undertaking Betty
as Thelma & Selma
★6.8
MOVIE2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
as Mrs. Fisk
★5.7
MOVIE1991
The Butcher's Wife
as Gina
★6.7
MOVIE2000
House!
as Auntie Beth
★6.4
MOVIE2004
Being Julia
as Dolly de Vries
★7.2
MOVIE1996
Different for Girls
as Pamela
★7.1
MOVIE2025
A Friend of Dorothy
as Dorothy
★7.2
MOVIE2011
When Harry Left Hogwarts
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Modigliani
as Gertrude Stein
★6.6
MOVIE2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
as Peg Sellers
★5.3
MOVIE1992
Stalin
as Krupskaya
★4.9
MOVIE1985
Morons from Outer Space
as Doctor Wallace
★6.7
MOVIE1983
Yentl
as Sarah
★7.1
MOVIE1997
The Long Way Home
as (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE2012
The Wedding Video
as Patricia
★6.8
MOVIE1995
Cold Comfort Farm
as Mrs. Beetle
MOVIE2014
Outlier
as Odamee Marshall
★5.5
MOVIE1980
The Awakening
as Dr. Kadira
MOVIE1976
The Lifeswappers
as Miriam/Miss Babberton
★6.6
MOVIE2023
My Happy Ending
as Judy
★7.9
MOVIE1994
Liberation
as Narrator
★4.6
MOVIE1990
Orpheus Descending
as Vee Talbot
★5.3
MOVIE2014
The Legend of Longwood
as Lady Thyrza
★7.5
MOVIE1975
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
★4.5
MOVIE1980
The Apple
as Landlady
MOVIE2014
The Seventeenth Kind
as Mrs. Mark
★6.4
MOVIE1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Signora Caldoni
MOVIE2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2005
Wallis & Edward
as Aunt Bessie
★6.6
MOVIE1998
The First Snow of Winter
as Sean McDuck (voice)
MOVIE2015
Mother
as Maria Aponte
★5.0
MOVIE1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
★6.4
MOVIE1987
Little Dorrit
as Flora Finching
MOVIETBA
Angels in the Asylum
MOVIE1993
Demonella
as Mother
★5.0
MOVIE2015
Spirit-ED
as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
MOVIE1975
Naughty Girls
as Voice
★7.5
MOVIE2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
★5.5
MOVIE1993
Ed and His Dead Mother
as Mabel Chilton
★6.0
MOVIE1992
As You Like It
as Audrey
★6.1
MOVIE2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
as Prudence Stanley
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Left Luggage
as Mrs. Goldman
★7.0
MOVIE2001
In Search of Peace
as Ester Cailingold (voice)
MOVIE1969
The Ha-Ha
as Kathie
★7.3
MOVIE2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
as Herself
★7.5
MOVIE1988
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
as Queen Victoria
★5.9
MOVIE1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
as Mrs. Rajzman
★8.1
MOVIE1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
★5.6
MOVIE1985
The Good Father
as Jane Powell
MOVIE1986
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
as Miss N. Shortt
★7.0
MOVIE1969
A Nice Girl Like Me
as Pensione
★7.3
MOVIE2023
Mog's Christmas
as Aunt One (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1990
The Fool
as Mrs. Bowring
★8.0
MOVIE2001
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
★7.7
MOVIE2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1983
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
as Narrator (voice)
★4.6
MOVIE1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
as Elephant Ethel
★7.0
MOVIE1991
Echoes That Remain
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2024
How To Make It In Comedy
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
as Self
★5.1
MOVIE2007
The Dukes
as Aunt Vee
★3.2
MOVIE2012
Sir Billi
as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
MOVIE2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
as Narrator
★6.0
MOVIE2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
as self
★7.0
MOVIE2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
as Cook
MOVIE1990
Old Flames
as Nellie
★3.7
MOVIE1974
On the Game
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★10.0
MOVIE2026
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1978
On a Paving Stone Mounted
★6.0
MOVIE2018
Postcards from the 48%
★7.2
MOVIE2008
We Are Most Amused
as Self
MOVIE2017
Peter and the Wolf
as Narrator
★6.4
MOVIE2021
H Is for Happiness
as Miss Bamford
★8.0
MOVIE2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
as Self
★8.8
MOVIE2023
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1997
The IMAX Nutcracker
as Sugar Plum
★8.0
MOVIE2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2012
A Closed Book
as Mrs. Kilbride
★5.1
MOVIE2002
Alone
as Caseworker
MOVIE1977
The Thin End of the Wedge
as Veronica
★10.0
MOVIE2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE1987
Body Contact
as Tony's Mother
★3.5
MOVIE2023
Next to You
as Granny Vera
★7.5
MOVIE1976
The Battle of Billy's Pond
as Tour Guide
★7.7
MOVIE2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
as Mummy Socks (voice)
MOVIE2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
as Narrator (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1982
Crystal Gazing
as Newsreader
★9.0
MOVIE1986
Scotch & Wry
★6.0
MOVIE2012
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
MOVIE2025
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
★8.0
MOVIE2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
as Self
MOVIE2020
The Last Artifact
as Narrator (UK version)
MOVIE2020
Wings
as Audrey
MOVIE2015
The Importance of Being Miriam
MOVIE2026
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
as Self
MOVIE2007
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
as Narrator
MOVIE2014
Honeysuckle
as Patricia
MOVIE2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
as Self