Miriam Margolyes
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).
213 acting credits
Acting · 213
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Rugrats
1991
Play for Today
1970
Call the Midwife
2012
Merlin
2008
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Wogan
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Last Leg
2013
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Omnibus
1967
Blackadder
1983
Q&A
2008
Screen Two
1985
ITV Playhouse
1967
Theatre 625
1964
An Audience with...
1978
Mulan
1998
Dharma & Greg
1997
Apple & Onion
2018
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Angels
1975
Remembers…
2022
Monkey
1978
Flushed Away
2006
Kingdom
2007
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
Trollied
2011
Magnolia
1999
Plebs
2013
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Fall of Eagles
1974
The Play on One
1988
Happy Feet
2006
End of Days
1999
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
Cats & Dogs
2001
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
Early Man
2018
Babe
1995
The Age of Innocence
1993
Big Muzzy
1987
Balto
1995
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
Magic Grandad
1993
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Dog Squad
2022
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Holy Days
2026
On the Game
1974
Vanity Fair
1998
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Reds
1981
Pacific Heights
1990
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
Immortal Beloved
1994
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Dead Again
1991
I Love You to Death
1990
The Guilt Trip
2012
Freud
1984
Oliver Twist
1985
Chasing Liberty
2004
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
A Little Princess
1987
The History Man
1981
Electric Dreams
1984
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Ladies in Lavender
2004
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Dickens
2002
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
Yentl
1983
Badjelly
2025
Sunshine
1999
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Project
2009
The Butcher's Wife
1991
Being Julia
2004
Moonacre
1994
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
Modigliani
2004
Bucket
2017
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
Stalin
1992
Dickens in America
2005
Plays for Britain
1976
Little Dorrit
1987
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
Frannie's Turn
1992
The Awakening
1980
Wallis & Edward
2005
Sir Billi
2012
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Supply and Demand
1998
Undertaking Betty
2002
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Different for Girls
1996
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
My Happy Ending
2023
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
The Good Father
1985
The Wedding Video
2012
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
The Fool
1990
The Legend of Longwood
2014
Kizzy
1976
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
Body Contact
1987
Scrubbers
1982
The Long Way Home
1997
The Apple
1980
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
Alone
2002
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
The First Snow of Winter
1998
We Are Most Amused
2008
In Search of Peace
2001
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Angels in the Asylum
—
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
H Is for Happiness
2021
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
Old Flames
1990
A Closed Book
2012
House!
2000
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
The Dukes
2007
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Mog's Christmas
2023
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
Liberation
1994
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
Next to You
2023
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
How To Make It In Comedy
2024
The Last Artifact
2020
Demonella
1993
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
Orpheus Descending
1990
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Left Luggage
1998
As You Like It
1992
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
Peter and the Wolf
2017
Unexplained Laughter
1989
Crystal Gazing
1982
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
The Lifeswappers
1976
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
Echoes That Remain
1991
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
The Ha-Ha
1969
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
Naughty Girls
1975
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
Scotch & Wry
1986
Honeysuckle
2014
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Outlier
2014
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007
Wings
2020
Mother
2015
Spirit-ED
2015
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015