Miriam Margolyes
Department: Acting
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).
Known For
Romeo + Juliet
1996
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
James and the Giant Peach
1996
I Love You to Death
1990
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Mulan
1998
The Last Artifact
2020
The Age of Innocence
1993
Pacific Heights
1990
Undertaking Betty
2002
Scotch & Wry
1986
Cats & Dogs
2001
Flushed Away
2006
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
End of Days
1999
Babe
1995
Happy Feet
2006
Immortal Beloved
1994
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Alone
2002
The Dukes
2007
The Good Father
1985
Little Dorrit
1987
The Awakening
1980
The Apple
1980
Sunshine
1999
Electric Dreams
1984
Magnolia
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Scrubbers
1982
Mog's Christmas
2023
Stalin
1992
The First Snow of Winter
1998
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Different for Girls
1996
Dead Again
1991
The Wedding Video
2012
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
My Happy Ending
2023
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
The Long Way Home
1997
Body Contact
1987
Naughty Girls
1975
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
The Ha-Ha
1969
Liberation
1994
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
Sir Billi
2012
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
The Lifeswappers
1976
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
Unexplained Laughter
1989
As You Like It
1992
Wallis & Edward
2005
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
Balto
1995
Ladies in Lavender
2004
Being Julia
2004
Modigliani
2004
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
Orpheus Descending
1990
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
Reds
1981
The Guilt Trip
2012
Morons from Outer Space
1985
The Butcher's Wife
1991
Demonella
1993
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
House!
2000
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
The Legend of Longwood
2014
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
Outlier
2014
We Are Most Amused
2008
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
Yentl
1983
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
The Fool
1990
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
Honeysuckle
2014
On the Game
1974
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Echoes That Remain
1991
Spirit-ED
2015
A Closed Book
2012
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Early Man
2018
Old Flames
1990
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
H Is for Happiness
2021
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
Wings
2020
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
In Search of Peace
2001
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Next to You
2023
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Chasing Liberty
2004
How To Make It In Comedy
2024
Holy Days
2026
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Angels in the Asylum
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Mother
2015
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Peter and the Wolf
2017
Crystal Gazing
1982
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Dharma & Greg
1997
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
Blackadder
1983
Angels
1975
Fall of Eagles
1974
Oliver Twist
1985
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Moonacre
1994
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
Dickens in America
2005
Frannie's Turn
1992
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Monkey
1978
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
Plebs
2013
Trollied
2011
Kingdom
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Magic Grandad
1993
An Audience with...
1978
Bucket
2017
Rugrats
1991
Supply and Demand
1998
Wogan
1982
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
A Little Princess
1987
Call the Midwife
2012
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Apple & Onion
2018
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
Muzzy in Gondoland
1986
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
American Dad!
2005
Q&A
2008
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Play for Today
1970
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
Merlin
2008
Dog Squad
2022
Badjelly
2025
The Last Leg
2013
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
The Project
2009
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Blackadder
1983
Dickens
2002
Theatre 625
1964
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Freud
1984
Kizzy
1976
The History Man
1981
Monkey
1978
Family Guy
1999
Remembers…
2022
Vanity Fair
1998
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
ITV Playhouse
1967