Miriam Margolyes
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1941-05-18
Place of Birth: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England UK
Popularity: 1.3
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 Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Family Guy
1999
American Dad!
2005
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Rugrats
1991
Call the Midwife
2012
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Play for Today
1970
Merlin
2008
Wogan
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
The Last Leg
2013
Screen Two
1985
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Omnibus
1967
Mulan
1998
Blackadder
1983
Apple & Onion
2018
Dharma & Greg
1997
Q&A
2008
An Audience with...
1978
Theatre 625
1964
Remembers…
2022
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
Angels
1975
ITV Playhouse
1967
Monkey
1978
Flushed Away
2006
Kingdom
2007
Plebs
2013
Happy Feet
2006
Trollied
2011
Magnolia
1999
Romeo + Juliet
1996
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
Babe
1995
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
The Play on One
1988
Fall of Eagles
1974
End of Days
1999
Cats & Dogs
2001
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Balto
1995
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Vanity Fair
1998
The Age of Innocence
1993
Early Man
2018No Photo
Magic Grandad
1993
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
Dog Squad
2022No Photo
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Dead Again
1991
Holy Days
2026
Pacific Heights
1990
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Electric Dreams
1984
Reds
1981
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Oliver Twist
1985
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
I Love You to Death
1990
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Chasing Liberty
2004
Immortal Beloved
1994
The Guilt Trip
2012
A Little Princess
1987
Sunshine
1999
On the Game
1974
The History Man
1981
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Big Muzzy
1987
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
Freud
1984
Ladies in Lavender
2004
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
Badjelly
2025
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Yentl
1983
The Butcher's Wife
1991
Bucket
2017
Being Julia
2004
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
Stalin
1992
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
Dickens
2002
The Project
2009
Sir Billi
2012No Photo
Childhood
1977
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997No Photo
The Fool
1990
Plays for Britain
1976
The Apple
1980
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021No Photo
Moonacre
1994
Frannie's Turn
1992
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
Kizzy
1976
Modigliani
2004
The Awakening
1980
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
Supply and Demand
1998
The Long Way Home
1997
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
The Good Father
1985No Photo
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
Morons from Outer Space
1985
We Are Most Amused
2008
The Wedding Video
2012
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Little Dorrit
1987
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
My Happy Ending
2023
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
Different for Girls
1996
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999No Photo
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
Old Flames
1990
Wallis & Edward
2005
Undertaking Betty
2002
Dickens in America
2005
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
The Dukes
2007
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Left Luggage
1998
Liberation
1994
Scrubbers
1982
The Legend of Longwood
2014
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
As You Like It
1992
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Mog's Christmas
2023
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
Body Contact
1987
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
The First Snow of Winter
1998
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
Orpheus Descending
1990
Scotch & Wry
1986
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024No Photo
Angels in the Asylum
N/A
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004No Photo
How To Make It In Comedy
2024
House!
2000
Demonella
1993
Alone
2002
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969No Photo
The Ha-Ha
1969
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
H Is for Happiness
2021
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
A Closed Book
2012
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Next to You
2023
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Unexplained Laughter
1989No Photo
Outlier
2014
In Search of Peace
2001
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Crystal Gazing
1982
Echoes That Remain
1991
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020No Photo
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022No Photo
Spirit-ED
2015No Photo
Peter and the Wolf
2017
Postcards from the 48%
2018
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977No Photo
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
The Last Artifact
2020
Wings
2020
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
The Lifeswappers
1976
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986No Photo
Honeysuckle
2014No Photo
Naughty Girls
1975No Photo
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026No Photo
Mother
2015
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007