Miriam Margolyes
Known for: Acting
Born: May 18, 1941
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
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
The Last Artifact
2020
Alone
2002
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
Honeysuckle
2014
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
Wings
2020
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
Next to You
2023
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004
Peter and the Wolf
2017
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew
2026
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Babe
1995
The First Snow of Winter
1998
My Happy Ending
2023
Naughty Girls
1975
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
Outlier
2014
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
Echoes That Remain
1991
Postcards from the 48%
2018
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
Mother
2015
Different for Girls
1996
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
Sir Billi
2012
Being Julia
2004
Orpheus Descending
1990
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Demonella
1993
House!
2000
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
A Closed Book
2012
Holy Days
2026
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Cats & Dogs
2001
Mog's Christmas
2023
The Wedding Video
2012
The Ha-Ha
1969
Liberation
1994
The Seventeenth Kind
2014
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Spirit-ED
2015
Old Flames
1990
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986
The Long Way Home
1997
The Lifeswappers
1976
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
Wallis & Edward
2005
Maya the Bee Movie
2014
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
Early Man
2018
H Is for Happiness
2021
Angels in the Asylum
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Scotch & Wry
1986
Immortal Beloved
1994
The Good Father
1985
Ladies in Lavender
2004
Modigliani
2004
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
How To Make It In Comedy
2024
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Stalin
1992
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Body Contact
1987
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
The Apple
1980
The Butcher's Wife
1991
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
Mulan
1998
End of Days
1999
The Dukes
2007
Electric Dreams
1984
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
The Legend of Longwood
2014
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
I Love You to Death
1990
Flushed Away
2006
Happy Feet
2006
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
The Awakening
1980
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
As You Like It
1992
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
Little Dorrit
1987
Sunshine
1999
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
Morons from Outer Space
1985
Left Luggage
1998
Balto
1995
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Unexplained Laughter
1989
Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
The Age of Innocence
1993
Undertaking Betty
2002
Yentl
1983
Dead Again
1991
The Guilt Trip
2012
Pacific Heights
1990
When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
We Are Most Amused
2008
Scrubbers
1982
Crystal Gazing
1982
Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
In Search of Peace
2001
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Chasing Liberty
2004
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
On the Game
1974
The Fool
1990
Reds
1981
Magnolia
1999
Jam and Jerusalem
2006
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Dharma & Greg
1997
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989
Blackadder
1983
Angels
1975
Fall of Eagles
1974
Oliver Twist
1985
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981
Moonacre
1994
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2023
Dickens in America
2005
Frannie's Turn
1992
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974
At the Eleventh Hour
1967
Monkey
1978
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
Plebs
2013
Trollied
2011
Kingdom
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Magic Grandad
1993
An Audience with...
1978
Bucket
2017
Rugrats
1991
Wogan
1982
Terry Wogan's Friday Night
1992
A Little Princess
1987
Call the Midwife
2012
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
The Girls of Slender Means
1975
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2018
The Real Marigold Hotel
2016
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Apple & Onion
2018
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2019
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering
2015
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
Big Muzzy
1987
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
American Dad!
2005
Q&A
2008
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Play for Today
1970
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
Merlin
2008
Dog Squad
2022
Badjelly
2025
The Last Leg
2013
Miriam Margolyes Discovers New Zealand
2025
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007
The Project
2009
Dickens
2002
Theatre 625
1964
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997
Freud
1984
Kizzy
1976
The History Man
1981
Family Guy
1999
Remembers…
2022
Vanity Fair
1998
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986
Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes
2023
ITV Playhouse
1967
Plays for Britain
1976
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me
2026
Supply and Demand
1998
Omnibus
1967
The Play on One
1988
Screen Two
1985
Childhood
1977
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965