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).
Filmography Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
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Details Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
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Details The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
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Details How To Make It In Comedy
2024
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Details Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023
The Meep (voice) (archive footage)
Details Mog's Christmas
2023
Aunt One (voice)
Details Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
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Details Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
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Details David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
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Details The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
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Details Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
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Details imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2022
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Details H Is for Happiness
2021
Miss Bamford
Details Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
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Details Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
Prudence Stanley
Details The Last Artifact
2020
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Details Postcards from the 48%
2018
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Details Early Man
2018
Queen Oofeefa (voice)
Details Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
Herself
Details The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
Mrs. Fisk
Details The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Wulftrud (voice)
Details Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2016
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Details The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
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Details Spirit-ED
2015
Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup
Details The Legend of Longwood
2014
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Details Maya the Bee Movie
2014
Queen (voice)
Details The Seventeenth Kind
2014
Mrs. Mark
Details The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas
2012
Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)
Details The Wedding Video
2012
Patricia
Details A Closed Book
2012
Mrs. Kilbride
Details Sir Billi
2012
Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)
Details When Harry Left Hogwarts
2011
Self
Details Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2011
Pomona Sprout
Details The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011
Mummy Socks (voice)
Details Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
Mrs. Plithiver (voice)
Details Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments
2008
Self
Details How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Mrs. Kowalski
Details The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Narrator (voice)
Details What the Pythons Did Next...
2007
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Details Happy Feet
2006
Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)
Details Flushed Away
2006
Rita's Grandma (voice)
Details Wallis & Edward
2005
Aunt Bessie
Details Ladies in Lavender
2004
Dorcas
Details The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
Peg Sellers
Details Being Julia
2004
Dolly de Vries
Details Modigliani
2004
Gertrude Stein
Details Undertaking Betty
2002
Thelma & Selma
Details Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Pomona Sprout
Details In Search of Peace
2001
Ester Cailingold (voice)
Details Cats & Dogs
2001
Sophie the Castle Maid
Details Not Afraid, Not Afraid
2001
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Details Magnolia
1999
Faye Barringer (uncredited)
Details Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999
Signora Caldoni
Details Sunshine
1999
Rose Sonnenschein
Details The First Snow of Winter
1998
Sean McDuck (voice)
Details Babe: Pig in the City
1998
Fly (voice)
Details Mulan
1998
The Matchmaker (voice)
Details The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
Sugar Plum
Details The Long Way Home
1997
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Details Different for Girls
1996
Pamela
Details James and the Giant Peach
1996
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Details Cold Comfort Farm
1995
Mrs. Beetle
Details Immortal Beloved
1994
Nanette Streicherová
Details The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
Maiden from Mombassa (voice)
Details The Age of Innocence
1993
Mrs. Catherine Mingott
Details Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Mabel Chilton
Details Dead Again
1991
Hypnotism Patient
Details Echoes That Remain
1991
Narrator (voice)
Details The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
1990
Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter
Details Orpheus Descending
1990
Vee Talbot
Details I Love You to Death
1990
Joey's Mother
Details Unexplained Laughter
1989
Laughter (voice)
Details Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
1989
Mrs. Rajzman
Details Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Queen Victoria
Details Little Dorrit
1987
Flora Finching
Details Body Contact
1987
Tony's Mother
Details Little Shop of Horrors
1986
Dental Nurse
Details Scotch & Wry
1986
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Details The Good Father
1985
Jane Powell
Details Morons from Outer Space
1985
Doctor Wallace
Details Electric Dreams
1984
Ticket Girl
Details Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti
1983
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Details Reds
1981
Woman with Notebook (uncredited)
Details The Awakening
1980
Dr. Kadira
Details On a Paving Stone Mounted
1978
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Details The Thin End of the Wedge
1977
Veronica
Details Confessions from a Holiday Camp
1977
Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)
Details Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1977
Elephant Ethel
Details The Lifeswappers
1976
Miriam/Miss Babberton
Details The Battle of Billy's Pond
1976
Tour Guide
Details Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
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Details On the Game
1974
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Details A Nice Girl Like Me
1969
Pensione
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