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).
Filmography
Supply and Demand
1998 · 10.0
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2021 · 10.0
Badjelly
2025 · 9.5
Inconceivable
2005 · 9.0
Scotch & Wry
1986 · 9.0
On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978 · 9.0
The IMAX Nutcracker
1997 · 9.0
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023 · 8.6
Big Muzzy
1987 · 8.5
Monkey
1978 · 8.1
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990 · 8.1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011 · 8.1
Blackadder
1983 · 8.0
Moonacre
1994 · 8.0
The Fool
1990 · 8.0
Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001 · 8.0
Mulan
1998 · 7.9
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · 7.9
Liberation
1994 · 7.9
Merlin
2008 · 7.8
Magnolia
1999 · 7.7
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 · 7.7
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 · 7.7
A Little Princess
1987 · 7.7
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011 · 7.7
Rugrats
1991 · 7.6
Vanity Fair
1998 · 7.6
Call the Midwife
2012 · 7.6
Frannie's Turn
1992 · 7.5
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975 · 7.5
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021 · 7.5
The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976 · 7.5
Family Guy
1999 · 7.4
Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988 · 7.4
Balto
1995 · 7.3
Plebs
2013 · 7.3
Mog's Christmas
2023 · 7.3
Omnibus
1967 · 7.2
Theatre 625
1964 · 7.2
Jam and Jerusalem
2006 · 7.2
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
1986 · 7.2
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993 · 7.2
Screen Two
1985 · 7.1
The Sarah Jane Adventures
2007 · 7.1
Kingdom
2007 · 7.1
Immortal Beloved
1994 · 7.1
Different for Girls
1997 · 7.1
The Long Way Home
1997 · 7.1
American Dad!
2005 · 7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967 · 7.0
Fall of Eagles
1974 · 7.0
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2010 · 7.0
Tonight at 8.30
1991 · 7.0
Modigliani
2004 · 7.0
Kizzy
1976 · 7.0
Dickens
2002 · 7.0
A Nice Girl Like Me
1969 · 7.0
The Phoenix and the Carpet
2004 · 7.0
Echoes That Remain
1991 · 7.0
Crystal Gazing
1982 · 7.0
In Search of Peace
2001 · 7.0
Little Shop of Horrors
1986 · 7.0
A Friend of Dorothy
2025 · 7.0
The Age of Innocence
1993 · 7.0
Reds
1981 · 6.9
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010 · 6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · 6.8
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · 6.8
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017 · 6.8
Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · 6.8
Yentl
1983 · 6.7
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · 6.6
Play for Today
1970 · 6.6
House!
2000 · 6.6
A Kick Up the Eighties
1981 · 6.6
My Happy Ending
2023 · 6.6
Holy Days
2026 · 6.6
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004 · 6.6
The First Snow of Winter
1998 · 6.6
Apple & Onion
2018 · 6.5
Trollied
2011 · 6.5
Sunshine
1999 · 6.5
H Is for Happiness
2021 · 6.5
Dead Again
1991 · 6.4
Dharma & Greg
1997 · 6.4
Electric Dreams
1984 · 6.4
Ladies in Lavender
2004 · 6.4
Being Julia
2004 · 6.4
Little Dorrit
1987 · 6.4
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · 6.4
I Love You to Death
1990 · 6.4
Flushed Away
2006 · 6.3
Pacific Heights
1990 · 6.3
Oliver Twist
1985 · 6.3
Left Luggage
1998 · 6.3
Babe
1995 · 6.3
Happy Feet
2006 · 6.2
Chasing Liberty
2004 · 6.2
Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983 · 6.2
Maya the Bee Movie
2014 · 6.2
Early Man
2018 · 6.1
End of Days
1999 · 6.1
Undertaking Betty
2002 · 6.1
The Little Vampire 3D
2017 · 6.1
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020 · 6.1
The Play on One
1988 · 6.0
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · 6.0
Magic Grandad
1993 · 6.0
Plays for Britain
1976 · 6.0
As You Like It
1992 · 6.0
Postcards from the 48%
2018 · 6.0
The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012 · 6.0
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989 · 5.9
Bucket
2017 · 5.8
Babe: Pig in the City
1998 · 5.7
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
1989 · 5.7
The Butcher's Wife
1991 · 5.7
The Guilt Trip
2012 · 5.6
The Good Father
1985 · 5.6
Wallis & Edward
2005 · 5.6
Body Contact
1987 · 5.6
Take a Letter, Mr Jones
1981 · 5.5
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993 · 5.5
The Wedding Video
2012 · 5.5
A Closed Book
2012 · 5.5
Cats & Dogs
2001 · 5.4
The Awakening
1980 · 5.4
Stalin
1992 · 5.3
The Legend of Longwood
2014 · 5.3
Scrubbers
1982 · 5.2
Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977 · 5.1
Alone
2002 · 5.1
The Dukes
2007 · 5.1
Freud
1984 · 5.0
Spirit-ED
2015 · 5.0
Morons from Outer Space
1985 · 4.9
Orpheus Descending
1990 · 4.6
The Apple
1980 · 4.6
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977 · 4.6
Angels
1975 · 4.5
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · 4.2
The History Man
1981 · 4.1
The Project
2009 · 4.0
The Girls of Slender Means
1975 · 3.7
On the Game
1974 · 3.7
Next to You
2023 · 3.5
Sir Billi
2012 · 3.1
Dog Squad
2022 · 0.0
Boy Meets Girl
1967 · 0.0
Childhood
1977 · 0.0
Mother
2015 · 0.0
Nightling
— · 0.0
Naughty Girls
1975 · 0.0
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1997 · 0.0
Ken Dodd's World of Laughter
1974 · 0.0
Fifties Features - The Women behind the Pictures
1986 · 0.0
The Lifeswappers
1976 · 0.0
Demonella
1993 · 0.0
Outlier
2014 · 0.0
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007 · 0.0
Flames of Passion: The Other Side of British Cinema
2007 · 0.0
The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors
1986 · 0.0
The Seventeenth Kind
2014 · 0.0
Heart of Darkness
— · 0.0
Dickens in America
2005 · 0.0
Angels in the Asylum
— · 0.0
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025 · 0.0
Peter and the Wolf
2017 · 0.0
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024 · 0.0
1 in 2
2026 · 0.0
The Thin End of the Wedge
1977 · 0.0
What the Pythons Did Next...
2007 · 0.0
At the Eleventh Hour
1967 · 0.0
The Last Artifact
2020 · 0.0
Wings
2020 · 0.0
Old Flames
1990 · 0.0
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015 · 0.0
Honeysuckle
2014 · 0.0