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
Movies
- Romeo + Juliet
1996
- The 50 Greatest Televis...
2007
- James and the Giant Pea...
1996
- I Love You to Death
1990
- The Life and Death of P...
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 De...
2011
- End of Days
1999
- Babe
1995
- Happy Feet
2006
- Immortal Beloved
1994
- Legend of the Guardians...
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 ...
1988
- Different for Girls
1996
- Dead Again
1991
- The Wedding Video
2012
- Blackadder: A Cunning S...
2023
- My Happy Ending
2023
- The Cow That Almost Mis...
2012
- The Long Way Home
1997
- Body Contact
1987
- Naughty Girls
1975
- imagine... Miriam Margo...
2022
- The Ha-Ha
1969
- Liberation
1994
- Sir Billi
2012
- Roald Dahl's Most Marve...
2016
- The Seventeenth Kind
2014
- The Lifeswappers
1976
- The Itch of the Golden ...
2011
- Unexplained Laughter
1989
- As You Like It
1992
- Harry Potter and the Ch...
2002
- A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
- Stand up, Virgin Soldie...
1977
- Confessions from a Holi...
1977
- Reds
1981
- Morons from Outer Space
1985
- Little Shop of Horrors
1986
- Orpheus Descending
1990
- The Fool of the World a...
1990
- The Butcher's Wife
1991
- Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
- Balto
1995
- Ladies in Lavender
2004
- Being Julia
2004
- Modigliani
2004
- Wallis & Edward
2005
- How to Lose Friends & A...
2008
- The Guilt Trip
2012
- Demonella
1993
- The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
- Rime of the Ancient Mar...
1975
- House!
2000
- Maya the Bee Movie
2014
- The Legend of Longwood
2014
- When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
- David Baddiel: Jews Don...
2022
- Outlier
2014
- We Are Most Amused
2008
- Miriam's Dickensian Chr...
2022
- Judi Dench: Our Nationa...
2022
- Yentl
1983
- On a Paving Stone Mount...
1978
- Murderers Among Us: The...
1989
- The Fool
1990
- The Real Ken Dodd: The ...
2024
- The Battle of Billy's P...
1976
- Doctor Who: 60th Annive...
2023
- Honeysuckle
2014
- On the Game
1974
- Frida Kahlo & Tina Modo...
1983
- The Man Who Invented Ch...
2017
- Echoes That Remain
1991
- Spirit-ED
2015
- A Closed Book
2012
- Harry Potter: A History...
2017
- The Little Vampire 3D
2017
- Old Flames
1990
- Early Man
2018
- The Thief and the Cobbl...
1993
- Postcards from the 48%
2018
- Miss Fisher and the Cry...
2020
- H Is for Happiness
2021
- What the Pythons Did Ne...
2007
- The Thin End of the Wed...
1977
- Wings
2020
- The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
- In Search of Peace
2001
- Letters Live from the A...
2021
- Pored tebe
2023
- Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
- Blackadder's Most Cunni...
2008
- Chasing Liberty
2004
- How To Make It In Comedy
2024
- Holy Days
- The Importance of Being...
2015
- Angels in the Asylum
- Mother
2015
- Alec Guinness: A Class ...
2024
- Ken Dodd: A Legacy of H...
2025
- A Friend of Dorothy
2025
- The Marvellous Maggie S...
2022
- The Secret Diaries of t...
1986
- Doctor Who: The Star Be...
2023
- The Phoenix and the Car...
2004
- Peter and the Wolf
2017
TV Shows
- Jam and Jerusalem
2006
- Tales of the Unexpected
1979
- Dharma & Greg
1997
- Take a Letter, Mr. Jones
1981
- Poor Little Rich Girl: ...
1989
- Blackadder
1983
- Angels
1975
- Fall of Eagles
1974
- Oliver Twist
1985
- Los cuentos de Tinga Ti...
2010
- A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
- Moonacre
1994
- Lady Gregory: Ireland's...
2023
- Dickens in America
2005
- Frannie's Turn
1992
- The Phoenix and the Car...
1997
- At the Eleventh Hour
1967
- Ken Dodd's World of Lau...
1974
- Kizzy
1976
- 西遊記
1978
- Tate Britain's Great Ar...
2017
- Late Night with Seth Me...
2014
- Miriam and Alan: Lost i...
2021
- Plebs
2013
- Trollied
2011
- Kingdom
2007
- The Graham Norton Show
2007
- Dickens
2002
- Magic Grandad
1993
- An Audience with...
1978
- Bucket
2017
- Rugrats
1991
- Supply and Demand
1998
- Wogan
1982
- Terry Wogan's Friday Ni...
1992
- Freud
1984
- The History Man
1981
- A Little Princess
1987
- Vanity Fair
1998
- Call the Midwife
2012
- Miriam Margolyes: Austr...
2022
- The Girls of Slender Me...
1975
- Miriam’s Big American A...
2018
- The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
- Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
- Apple & Onion
2018
- The Real Marigold on To...
2016
- Miriam's Dead Good Adve...
2019
- Fifties Features - The ...
1986
- The Weekly with Charlie...
2015
- John Bishop: In Convers...
2016
- Queen Victoria: Love, L...
2021
- Miriam Margolyes Imposs...
2024
- Muzzy in Gondoland
1986
- Comedy National Treasur...
2019
- American Dad!
2005
- Q&A
2008
- Miriam's Big Fat Advent...
2020
- Play for Today
1970
- Miss Fisher's Murder My...
2012
- Miriam Margolyes: Almos...
2020
- Merlin
2008
- Dog Squad
2022
- Badjelly
2025
- The Last Leg
2013
- Miriam Margolyes in New...
2025
- The Sarah Jane Adventur...
2007
- The Project
2009
- Jam and Jerusalem
2006
- Blackadder
1983