Miriam Margolyes
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).
As actor 220
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Call the Midwife
2012
Rugrats
1991
Play for Today
1970
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Merlin
2008
Wogan
1982
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Omnibus
1967
The Last Leg
2013
Screen Two
1985
Dharma & Greg
1997
Q&A
2008
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Mulan
1998
Blackadder
1983
Apple & Onion
2018
ITV Playhouse
1967
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Flushed Away
2006
Theatre 625
1964
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
Remembers…
2022
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Angels
1975
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Happy Feet
2006
An Audience with...
1978
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
End of Days
1999
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Monkey
1978
Babe
1995
Magnolia
1999
Freud
1984
Early Man
2018
Trollied
2011
Kingdom
2007
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
Vanity Fair
1998
Balto
1995
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Cats & Dogs
2001
Pacific Heights
1990
Big Muzzy
1987
Boy Meets Girl
1967
Plebs
2013
The Guilt Trip
2012
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
The Play on One
1988
Electric Dreams
1984
Dog Squad
2022
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
Fall of Eagles
1974
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
The Age of Innocence
1993
Kizzy
1976
Dead Again
1991
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Badjelly
2025
Holy Days
2026
Chasing Liberty
2004
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
Immortal Beloved
1994
Inconceivable
2005
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Ladies in Lavender
2004
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
Oliver Twist
1985
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
Undertaking Betty
2002
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
A Little Princess
1987
Sunshine
1999
Magic Grandad
1993
Reds
1981
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Childhood
1977
Being Julia
2004
The Project
2009
The Butcher's Wife
1991
Scrubbers
1982
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
Yentl
1983
The Awakening
1980
Plays for Britain
1976
I Love You to Death
1990
The Apple
1980
House!
2000
The Last Artifact
2020
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Liberation
1994
Little Dorrit
1987
Dickens
2002
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
Tonight at 8.30
1991
The History Man
1981
Stalin
1992
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
Bucket
2017
Supply and Demand
1998
Unexplained Laughter
1989
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Modigliani
2004
My Happy Ending
2023
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
Left Luggage
1998
The Lifeswappers
1976
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Mother
2015
Wallis & Edward
2005
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
Orpheus Descending
1990
On the Game
1974
Sir Billi
2012
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
Next to You
2023
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
The Wedding Video
2012
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
H Is for Happiness
2021
A Closed Book
2012
Moonacre
1994
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007
Dickens in America
2005
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
The Good Father
1985
Naughty Girls
1975
The Legend of Longwood
2014
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
Mog's Christmas
2023
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
Frannie's Turn
1992
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
Different for Girls
1996
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
The Long Way Home
1997
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
Demonella
1993
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
In Search of Peace
2001
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Body Contact
1987
Echoes That Remain
1991
Alone
2002
We Are Most Amused
2008
Heart of Darkness
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
The First Snow of Winter
1998
Scotch & Wry
1986
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Crystal Gazing
1982
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
As You Like It
1992
Peter and the Wolf
2017
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
Outlier
2014
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
Old Flames
1990
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
The Fool
1990
Wings
2020
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
The Ha-Ha
1969
Angels in the Asylum
The Dukes
2007
Spirit-ED
2015
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
Honeysuckle
2014
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015