Miriam Margolyes

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1941-05-18 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Oxford, England, UK

Miriam Margolyes

Biography

Miriam Margoyles OBE (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).

Acting

1996

2007

1996

James and the Giant Peach

as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

1990

I Love You to Death

as Joey's Mother

1998

Mulan

as The Matchmaker (voice)

2020

The Last Artifact

as Narrator (UK version)

1993

The Age of Innocence

as Mrs. Catherine Mingott

1990

Pacific Heights

as Realtor

2002

Undertaking Betty

as Thelma & Selma

2001

Cats & Dogs

as Sophie the Castle Maid

2006

Flushed Away

as Rita's Grandma (voice)

1998

Babe: Pig in the City

as Fly (voice)

1995

Cold Comfort Farm

as Mrs. Beetle

1999

End of Days

as Mabel

1995

Babe

as Fly (voice)

2006

Happy Feet

as Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

1994

Immortal Beloved

as Nanette Streicherová

2002

Alone

as Caseworker

2007

The Dukes

as Aunt Vee

1985

The Good Father

as Jane Powell

1987

Little Dorrit

as Flora Finching

1980

The Awakening

as Dr. Kadira

1980

The Apple

as Landlady

1999

Sunshine

as Rose Sonnenschein

1984

Electric Dreams

as Ticket Girl

1999

Magnolia

as Faye Barringer (uncredited)

1999

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Signora Caldoni

1982

Scrubbers

as Jones

2023

Mog's Christmas

as Aunt One (voice)

1992

Stalin

as Krupskaya

1998

The First Snow of Winter

as Sean McDuck (voice)

1988

1996

1991

Dead Again

as Hypnotism Patient

2012

2023

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

as Self – Narrator (voice)

2023

2012

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

1997

1987

Body Contact

as Tony's Mother

1975

1969

The Ha-Ha

as Kathie

1994

Liberation

as Narrator

2012

Sir Billi

as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

2014

1976

The Lifeswappers

as Miriam/Miss Babberton

2011

The Itch of the Golden Nit

as Mummy Socks (voice)

1989

Unexplained Laughter

as Laughter (voice)

1992

1969

1977

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

as Elephant Ethel

1977

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

1981

Reds

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

1985

Morons from Outer Space

as Doctor Wallace

1986

Little Shop of Horrors

as Dental Nurse

1990

Orpheus Descending

as Vee Talbot

1990

1993

Ed and His Dead Mother

as Mabel Chilton

1995

Balto

as Grandma Rosy

2004

2004

Being Julia

as Dolly de Vries

2004

Modigliani

as Gertrude Stein

2005

Wallis & Edward

as Aunt Bessie

2012

1993

Demonella

as Mother

2000

House!

as Auntie Beth

2014

Maya the Bee Movie

as Queen (voice)

2014

1983

Yentl

as Sarah

1990

The Fool

as Mrs. Bowring

2024

2023

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

as The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

2014

Honeysuckle

as Patricia

1974

On the Game

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1991

Echoes That Remain

as Narrator (voice)

2015

Spirit-ED

as Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

2012

A Closed Book

as Mrs. Kilbride

2017

The Little Vampire 3D

as Wulftrud (voice)

1990

Old Flames

as Nellie

2018

Early Man

as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler

as Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

2020

2021

H Is for Happiness

as Miss Bamford

2020

Wings

as Audrey

1997

The IMAX Nutcracker

as Sugar Plum

2001

In Search of Peace

as Ester Cailingold (voice)

2023

Next to You

as Granny Vera

2004

2015

Mother

as Maria Aponte

2025

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