Person
Miriam Margolyes
Acting · Born 1941-05-18 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
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
Family Guy
Right Eyeball (voice)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
American Dad!
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
Self
Rugrats
Shirley Finster (voice)
Play for Today
Veronica
Merlin
Grunhilda
Wogan
Self
Omnibus
1967
Filmography
- 2026They Call Us The Wrong Kind of JewSelf
- 2026Miriam Margolyes Made Me MeSelf
- 2026Miriam Margolyes Made Me MeSelf
- 2026Holy DaysSister Luke
- 2025A Friend of DorothyDorothy
- 2025Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
- 2025Miriam Margolyes Discovers New ZealandSelf - Presenter
- 2025BadjellyBadjelly (voice)
- 2024Alec Guinness: A Class Actself
- 2024The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I LovedNarrator (voice)
- 2024Miriam Margolyes Impossibly AustralianSelf
- 2024How To Make It In Comedy
- 2023Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary SpecialsThe Meep (voice) (archive footage)
- 2023Mog's ChristmasAunt One (voice)
- 2023Next to YouGranny Vera
- 2023Irish Road Trip with Miriam MargolyesSelf
- 2023Blackadder: A Cunning StorySelf - Narrator (voice)
- 2023My Happy EndingJudy
- 2023Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social InfluencerSelf
- 2022Miriam's Dickensian ChristmasSelf
- 2022David Baddiel: Jews Don't CountSelf
- 2022Dog SquadSylvie (voice)
- 2022The Fringe, Fame and MeSelf
- 2022The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A CelebrationSelf
- 2022Miriam Margolyes: Australia UnmaskedSelf - Host
- 2022Judi Dench: Our National TreasureSelf
- 2022Remembers…Self
- 2022imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for GrabsSelf
- 2021Miriam and Alan: Lost in ScotlandSelf
- 2021H Is for HappinessMiss Bamford
- 2021Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
- 2021Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And LeadershipNarrator
- 2020WingsAudrey
- 2020Miriam Margolyes: Almost AustralianSelf - Host
- 2020Miriam's Big Fat AdventureSelf - Presenter
- 2020Miss Fisher and the Crypt of TearsPrudence Stanley
- 2020The Last ArtifactNarrator (UK version)
- 2019Comedy National Treasures: Stanley BaxterHerself
- 2019Miriam's Dead Good AdventureHerself - Presenter
- 2019Let's Talk About SexSelf
- 2018Postcards from the 48%
- 2018Apple & OnionQueen Victoria Sponge (voice)
- 2018Early ManQueen Oofeefa (voice)
- 2018Miriam’s Big American AdventureHerself
- 2017Harry Potter: A History Of MagicHerself
- 2017The Man Who Invented ChristmasMrs. Fisk
- 2017The Little Vampire 3DWulftrud (voice)
- 2017Tate Britain's Great Art WalksSelf
- 2017BucketMim
- 2017Peter and the WolfNarrator
- 2016The Real Marigold on TourSelf - Host
- 2016Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous BookSelf
- 2016John Bishop: In Conversation with...Self
- 2016The Real Marigold HotelSelf
- 2015The Importance of Being Miriam
- 2015Spirit-EDHeadmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
- 2015The Weekly with Charlie PickeringSelf
- 2015MotherMaria Aponte
- 2014The Legend of LongwoodLady Thyrza
- 2014OutlierOdamee Marshall
- 2014Maya the Bee MovieQueen (voice)
- 2014The Seventeenth KindMrs. Mark
- 2014Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf
- 2014HoneysucklePatricia
- 2013PlebsIona
- 2013The Last LegSelf
- 2012The Cow That Almost Missed ChristmasMme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
- 2012The Guilt TripAnita
- 2012The Wedding VideoPatricia
- 2012A Closed BookMrs. Kilbride
- 2012Sir BilliBaroness Chantal McToff (voice)
- 2012Miss Fisher's Murder MysteriesAunt Prudence
- 2012Call the MidwifeMother Mildred
- 2011When Harry Left HogwartsSelf
- 2011Trollied
- 2011Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2Pomona Sprout
- 2011The Itch of the Golden NitMummy Socks (voice)
- 2010Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'HooleMrs. Plithiver (voice)
- 2010Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
- 2009The Project
- 2008We Are Most AmusedSelf
- 2008Blackadder's Most Cunning MomentsSelf
- 2008How to Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleMrs. Kowalski
- 2008MerlinGrunhilda
- 2008Q&ASelf - Panellist
- 2007The Sarah Jane AdventuresLeaf Blathereen (voice)
- 2007Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British CinemaNarrator
- 2007The DukesAunt Vee
- 2007KingdomHenny Leach
- 2007The Graham Norton ShowSelf
- 2007The 50 Greatest Television DramasNarrator (voice)
- 2007What the Pythons Did Next...Narrator
- 2006Jam and JerusalemJoyce Midge
- 2006Happy FeetMrs. Astrakhan (voice)
- 2006Flushed AwayRita's Grandma (voice)
- 2005Wallis & EdwardAunt Bessie
- 2005Dickens in AmericaHost
- 2005American Dad!Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)
- 2004Agatha Christie's MarpleMrs. Price-Ridley
- 2004Ladies in LavenderDorcas
- 2004The Life and Death of Peter SellersPeg Sellers
- 2004Being JuliaDolly de Vries
- 2004The Phoenix and the CarpetCook
- 2004ModiglianiGertrude Stein
- 2004Chasing LibertyMaria
- 2002Undertaking BettyThelma & Selma
- 2002Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsPomona Sprout
- 2002DickensCatherine Dickens
- 2002AloneCaseworker
- 2001In Search of PeaceEster Cailingold (voice)
- 2001Cats & DogsSophie the Castle Maid
- 2001Not Afraid, Not Afraid
- 2000House!Auntie Beth
- 1999MagnoliaFaye Barringer (uncredited)
- 1999End of DaysMabel
- 1999Dreaming of Joseph LeesSignora Caldoni
- 1999SunshineRose Sonnenschein
- 1999Family GuyRight Eyeball (voice)
- 1998The First Snow of WinterSean McDuck (voice)
- 1998Babe: Pig in the CityFly (voice)
- 1998Vanity FairMiss Crawley
- 1998Supply and DemandCS Edna Colley
- 1998MulanThe Matchmaker (voice)
- 1998Left LuggageMrs. Goldman
- 1997The IMAX NutcrackerSugar Plum
- 1997The Phoenix and the CarpetCook
- 1997Dharma & GregChloe
- 1997The Long Way Home(voice)
- 1996Romeo + JulietNurse
- 1996Different for GirlsPamela
- 1996James and the Giant PeachAunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
- 1995BaltoGrandma Rosy
- 1995BabeFly (voice)
- 1995Cold Comfort FarmMrs. Beetle
- 1994Immortal BelovedNanette Streicherová
- 1994MoonacreOld Elspeth
- 1994LiberationNarrator
- 1993The Thief and the CobblerMaiden from Mombassa (voice)
- 1993The Age of InnocenceMrs. Catherine Mingott
- 1993Ed and His Dead MotherMabel Chilton
- 1993DemonellaMother
- 1993Magic GrandadGrandma
- 1992StalinKrupskaya
- 1992As You Like ItAudrey
- 1992Terry Wogan's Friday NightSelf
- 1992Frannie's TurnFrannie Escobar
- 1991The Butcher's WifeGina
- 1991Dead AgainHypnotism Patient
- 1991RugratsShirley Finster (voice)
- 1991Echoes That RemainNarrator (voice)
- 1991Tonight at 8.30Mrs. Wadhurst
- 1990The FoolMrs. Bowring
- 1990Pacific HeightsRealtor
- 1990The Fool of the World and the Flying ShipMother / Mrs. Woodcutter
- 1990Orpheus DescendingVee Talbot
- 1990I Love You to DeathJoey's Mother
- 1990Old FlamesNellie
- 1989Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton StoryElsa Maxwell
- 1989Unexplained LaughterLaughter (voice)
- 1989Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal StoryMrs. Rajzman
- 1988Blackadder's Christmas CarolQueen Victoria
- 1988The Play on OneLaughter (voice)
- 1987Little DorritFlora Finching
- 1987Body ContactTony's Mother
- 1987Big MuzzyThe Queen (voice)
- 1987A Little PrincessMiss Amelia Minchin
- 1986Little Shop of HorrorsDental Nurse
- 1986Scotch & Wry
- 1986The Life and Loves of a She-DevilNurse Hopkins
- 1986Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
- 1986The Secret Diaries of the Film CensorsMiss N. Shortt
- 1985The Good FatherJane Powell
- 1985Oliver Twist
- 1985Morons from Outer SpaceDoctor Wallace
- 1985Screen TwoNellie
- 1984FreudBaroness von Lieben
- 1984Electric DreamsTicket Girl
- 1983YentlSarah
- 1983BlackadderLady Whiteadder
- 1983Frida Kahlo & Tina ModottiNarrator (voice)
- 1982ScrubbersJones
- 1982Crystal GazingNewsreader
- 1982WoganSelf
- 1981RedsWoman with Notebook (uncredited)
- 1981A Kick Up the Eighties
- 1981Take a Letter, Mr JonesMaria
- 1981The History ManMelissa Tordoroff
- 1980The AppleLandlady
- 1980The AwakeningDr. Kadira
- 1979Tales of the UnexpectedMary Burge
- 1978On a Paving Stone Mounted
- 1978MonkeyNarator
- 1978An Audience with...Self
- 1977The Thin End of the WedgeVeronica
- 1977Confessions from a Holiday CampBlackbird (voice) (uncredited)
- 1977Stand up, Virgin SoldiersElephant Ethel
- 1977ChildhoodMademoiselle
- 1976The LifeswappersMiriam/Miss Babberton
- 1976Plays for BritainMiriam / Miss Babberton
- 1976KizzyMrs Doe
- 1976The Battle of Billy's PondTour Guide
- 1975Naughty GirlsVoice
- 1975Angels
- 1975Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- 1975The Girls of Slender MeansJane Wright
- 1974Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
- 1974Fall of EaglesAnna Vyrubova
- 1974On the GameNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1970Play for TodayVeronica
- 1969A Nice Girl Like MePensione
- 1969The Ha-HaKathie
- 1967At the Eleventh Hour
- 1967Omnibus
- 1967ITV PlayhouseKathie
- 1965Thirty-Minute TheatreVoice
- 1964Theatre 625Rita
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf
- —Angels in the Asylum
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