May 18, 1941 - Oxford, England, UK
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).
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| Movie | 1996 | Romeo + Juliet | Nurse | |
| Movie | 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice) | |
| Movie | 1990 | I Love You to Death | Joey's Mother | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peg Sellers | |
| Movie | 1998 | Mulan | The Matchmaker (voice) | |
| Movie | 2020 | The Last Artifact | Narrator (UK version) | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Age of Innocence | Mrs. Catherine Mingott | |
| Movie | 1990 | Pacific Heights | Realtor | |
| Movie | 2002 | Undertaking Betty | Thelma & Selma | |
| Movie | 1986 | Scotch & Wry | ||
| Movie | 2001 | Cats & Dogs | Sophie the Castle Maid | |
| Movie | 2006 | Flushed Away | Rita's Grandma (voice) | |
| Movie | 1998 | Babe: Pig in the City | Fly (voice) | |
| Movie | 1995 | Cold Comfort Farm | Mrs. Beetle | |
| Movie | 2011 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Pomona Sprout | |
| Movie | 1999 | End of Days | Mabel | |
| Movie | 1995 | Babe | Fly (voice) | |
| Movie | 2006 | Happy Feet | Mrs. Astrakhan (voice) | |
| Movie | 1994 | Immortal Beloved | Nanette Streicherová | |
| Movie | 2010 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Mrs. Plithiver (voice) | |
| Movie | 2002 | Alone | Caseworker | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Dukes | Aunt Vee | |
| Movie | 1985 | The Good Father | Jane Powell | |
| Movie | 1987 | Little Dorrit | Flora Finching | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Awakening | Dr. Kadira | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Apple | Landlady | |
| Movie | 1999 | Sunshine | Rose Sonnenschein | |
| Movie | 1984 | Electric Dreams | Ticket Girl | |
| Movie | 1999 | Magnolia | Faye Barringer (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1999 | Dreaming of Joseph Lees | Signora Caldoni | |
| Movie | 1982 | Scrubbers | Jones | |
| Movie | 2023 | Mog's Christmas | Aunt One (voice) | |
| Movie | 1992 | Stalin | Krupskaya | |
| Movie | 1998 | The First Snow of Winter | Sean McDuck (voice) | |
| Movie | 1988 | Blackadder's Christmas Carol | Queen Victoria | |
| Movie | 1996 | Different for Girls | Pamela | |
| Movie | 1991 | Dead Again | Hypnotism Patient | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Wedding Video | Patricia | |
| Movie | 2023 | Blackadder: A Cunning Story | Self – Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2023 | My Happy Ending | Judy | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas | Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice) | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Long Way Home | (voice) | |
| Movie | 1987 | Body Contact | Tony's Mother | |
| Movie | 1975 | Naughty Girls | Voice | |
| Movie | 2022 | imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs | Self | |
| Movie | 1969 | The Ha-Ha | Kathie | |
| Movie | 1994 | Liberation | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2016 | Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Sir Billi | Baroness Chantal McToff (voice) | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Seventeenth Kind | Mrs. Mark | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Lifeswappers | Miriam/Miss Babberton | |
| Movie | 2011 | The Itch of the Golden Nit | Mummy Socks (voice) | |
| Movie | 1989 | Unexplained Laughter | Laughter (voice) | |
| Movie | 1992 | As You Like It | Audrey | |
| Movie | 1969 | A Nice Girl Like Me | Pensione | |
| Movie | 1977 | Stand up, Virgin Soldiers | Elephant Ethel | |
| Movie | 2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Dorcas | |
| Movie | 2004 | Being Julia | Dolly de Vries | |
| Movie | 1985 | Morons from Outer Space | Doctor Wallace | |
| Movie | 2004 | Modigliani | Gertrude Stein | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Guilt Trip | Anita | |
| Movie | 2008 | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Mrs. Kowalski | |
| Movie | 2005 | Wallis & Edward | Aunt Bessie | |
| Movie | 1990 | Orpheus Descending | Vee Talbot | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter | |
| Movie | 1977 | Confessions from a Holiday Camp | Blackbird (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1981 | Reds | Woman with Notebook (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1993 | Ed and His Dead Mother | Mabel Chilton | |
| Movie | 1991 | The Butcher's Wife | Gina | |
| Movie | 2002 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Pomona Sprout | |
| Movie | 1986 | Little Shop of Horrors | Dental Nurse | |
| Movie | 1995 | Balto | Grandma Rosy | |
| Movie | 1993 | Demonella | Mother | |
| Movie | 2022 | The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self | |
| Movie | 1975 | Rime of the Ancient Mariner | ||
| Movie | 2000 | House! | Auntie Beth | |
| Movie | 2014 | Maya the Bee Movie | Queen (voice) | |
| Movie | 2014 | The Legend of Longwood | Lady Thyrza | |
| Movie | 2011 | When Harry Left Hogwarts | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | Outlier | ||
| Movie | 2008 | We Are Most Amused | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | Miriam's Dickensian Christmas | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Self | |
| Movie | 1983 | Yentl | Sarah | |
| Movie | 1978 | On a Paving Stone Mounted | ||
| Movie | 1989 | Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story | Mrs. Rajzman | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Fool | Mrs. Bowring | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Battle of Billy's Pond | Tour Guide | |
| Movie | 2023 | Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials | The Meep (voice) (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2014 | Honeysuckle | Patricia | |
| Movie | 1974 | On the Game | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 1983 | Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti | (voice) | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mrs. Fisk | |
| Movie | 1991 | Echoes That Remain | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Spirit-ED | Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup | |
| Movie | 2012 | A Closed Book | Mrs. Kilbride | |
| Movie | 2017 | Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Herself | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Little Vampire 3D | Wulftrud (voice) | |
| Movie | 1990 | Old Flames | Nellie | |
| Movie | 2018 | Early Man | Queen Oofeefa (voice) | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Maiden from Mombassa (voice) | |
| Movie | 2018 | Postcards from the 48% | ||
| Movie | 2020 | Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | Prudence Stanley | |
| Movie | 2021 | H Is for Happiness | Miss Bamford | |
| Movie | 2007 | What the Pythons Did Next... | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Thin End of the Wedge | Veronica | |
| Movie | 2020 | Wings | Audrey | |
| Movie | 1997 | The IMAX Nutcracker | Sugar Plum | |
| Movie | 2001 | In Search of Peace | Ester Cailingold (voice) | |
| Movie | 2021 | Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | ||
| Movie | 2023 | Next to You | Granny Vera | |
| Movie | 2001 | Not Afraid, Not Afraid | ||
| Movie | 2008 | Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | Chasing Liberty | Maria | |
| Movie | 2024 | How To Make It In Comedy | ||
| Movie | N/A | Holy Days | ||
| Movie | 2015 | The Importance of Being Miriam | ||
| Movie | N/A | Angels in the Asylum | ||
| Movie | 2015 | Mother | Maria Aponte | |
| Movie | 2024 | Alec Guinness: A Class Act | self | |
| Movie | 2025 | Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness | ||
| Movie | 2025 | A Friend of Dorothy | Dorothy | |
| Movie | 2022 | The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors | Miss N. Shortt | |
| Movie | 2023 | Doctor Who: The Star Beast | Meep | |
| TV Show | 2006 | Jam and Jerusalem | Joyce Midge | 0 |
| TV Show | 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Mary Burge | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Dharma & Greg | Chloe | 1 |
| TV Show | 1981 | Take a Letter, Mr. Jones | 6 | |
| TV Show | 1989 | Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | Elsa Maxwell | 6 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Blackadder | Lady Whiteadder | 1 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Angels | 2 | |
| TV Show | 1974 | Fall of Eagles | Anna Vyrubova | 1 |
| TV Show | 1985 | Oliver Twist | 4 | |
| TV Show | 2010 | Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga | 52 | |
| TV Show | 1981 | A Kick Up the Eighties | 10 | |
| TV Show | 1994 | Moonacre | Old Elspeth | 6 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Dickens in America | Host | 10 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Frannie's Turn | Frannie Escobar | 6 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The Phoenix and the Carpet | Cook | 6 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Ken Dodd's World of Laughter | 19 | |
| TV Show | 1967 | At the Eleventh Hour | 10 | |
| TV Show | 1976 | Kizzy | 6 | |
| TV Show | 1978 | Monkey | Narator | 52 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Tate Britain's Great Art Walks | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland | Self | 7 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Plebs | Iona | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Trollied | 8 | |
| TV Show | 2007 | Kingdom | Henny Leach | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 11 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Dickens | 3 | |
| TV Show | 1993 | Magic Grandad | Grandma | 3 |
| TV Show | 1978 | An Audience with... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Bucket | Mim | 4 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Rugrats | Shirley Finster (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Supply and Demand | Edna | 6 |
| TV Show | 1982 | Wogan | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | Terry Wogan's Friday Night | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Freud | Baroness von Lieben | 6 |
| TV Show | 1981 | The History Man | Melissa Tordoroff | 4 |
| TV Show | 1987 | A Little Princess | Miss Amelia | 6 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Vanity Fair | Miss Crawley | 6 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Call the Midwife | Mother Mildred | 4 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked | Self - Host | 3 |
| TV Show | 1975 | The Girls of Slender Means | Jane Wright | 3 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Miriam’s Big American Adventure | Herself | 3 |
| TV Show | 2016 | The Real Marigold Hotel | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Mrs. Price-Ridley | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Honest Trailers | Pomona Sprout (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Apple & Onion | Queen Victoria Sponge (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | The Real Marigold on Tour | Host (Herself) | 10 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Miriam's Dead Good Adventure | Herself - Presenter | 2 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures | 3 | |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Weekly with Charlie Pickering | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | John Bishop: In Conversation with... | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership | Narrator | 3 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Muzzy in Gondoland | The Queen (voice) | 6 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter | Herself | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | American Dad! | Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Q&A | Self - Panellist | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Miriam's Big Fat Adventure | Self - Presenter | 2 |
| TV Show | 1970 | Play for Today | Veronica | 1 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Aunt Prudence | 12 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian | Self - Host | 3 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Comic Strip Presents... | Mother | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Merlin | Grunhilda | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Dog Squad | Sylvie (voice) | 36 |
| TV Show | 2025 | Badjelly | Badjelly (voice) | 13 |
| TV Show | 2013 | The Last Leg | Self | 6 |
| TV Show | 2025 | Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand | Self - Presenter | 2 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Sarah Jane Adventures | Leaf Blathereen (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2009 | The Project | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2006 | Jam and Jerusalem | Mrs. Joyce Midge | 1 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Blackadder | Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain | 1 |
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| TV Show | 2021 | Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership | Creator | Creator |
