Miriam Margolyes
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).
Movies (122)
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
Holy Days
2026
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
Mog's Christmas
2023
Next to You
2023
My Happy Ending
2023
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
H Is for Happiness
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Wings
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
The Last Artifact
2020
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Early Man
2018
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
The Legend of Longwood
2014
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
The Guilt Trip
2012
The Wedding Video
2012
A Closed Book
2012
Sir Billi
2012
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
We Are Most Amused
2008
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007
The Dukes
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Happy Feet
2006
Flushed Away
2006
Wallis & Edward
2005
Ladies in Lavender
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Being Julia
2004
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Modigliani
2004
Chasing Liberty
2004
Undertaking Betty
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Alone
2002
In Search of Peace
2001
Cats & Dogs
2001
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
House!
2000
Magnolia
1999
End of Days
1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Sunshine
1999
The First Snow of Winter
1998
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Mulan
1998
Left Luggage
1998
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
The Long Way Home
1997
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Different for Girls
1996
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Balto
1995
Babe
1995
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
Immortal Beloved
1994
Liberation
1994
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
The Age of Innocence
1993
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Demonella
1993
Stalin
1992
As You Like It
1992
The Butcher's Wife
1991
Dead Again
1991
Echoes That Remain
1991
Pacific Heights
1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Orpheus Descending
1990
I Love You to Death
1990
Old Flames
1990
Unexplained Laughter
1989
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Little Dorrit
1987
Body Contact
1987
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
Scotch & Wry
1986
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
The Good Father
1985
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Electric Dreams
1984
Yentl
1983
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
Scrubbers
1982
Crystal Gazing
1982
Reds
1981
The Apple
1980
The Awakening
1980
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
The Lifeswappers
1976
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
On the Game
1974
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
TV Shows (75)
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
Badjelly
2025
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
Dog Squad
2022
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
Remembers…
2022
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
Apple & Onion
2018
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Bucket
2017
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Plebs
2013
The Last Leg
2013
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
Call the Midwife
2012
Trollied
2011
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
The Project
2009
Merlin
2008
Q&A
2008
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Kingdom
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Dickens in America
2005
American Dad!
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Dickens
2002
Family Guy
1999
Vanity Fair
1998
Supply and Demand
1998
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Dharma & Greg
1997
Frannie's Turn
1992
Rugrats
1991
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
The Play on One
1988
Big Muzzy
1987
A Little Princess
1987
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
Oliver Twist
1985
Freud
1984
Blackadder
1983
Blackadder
1983
Wogan
1982
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
The History Man
1981
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Monkey
1978
Monkey
1978
An Audience with...
1978
Plays for Britain
1976
Kizzy
1976
Angels
1975
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Fall of Eagles
1974
Play for Today
1970
Omnibus
1967
ITV Playhouse
1967
Theatre 625
1964
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962