Miriam Margoyles 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 after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence (1993).
Miriam Margolyes Biography / Wiki
| Name | Miriam Margolyes |
| Also Know | Miriam Margolyes, OBE |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Oxford, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | May 18, 1941 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 81 |
| Deathday |
Miriam Margolyes Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Alone | Caseworker | 2002-01-01 | Experience the fear as you’re sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can… |
| Honeysuckle | Patricia | 2014-01-01 | A short film about unity. This is a story about boy who finds an unlikely connection with his eccentric neighbour Patricia…. |
| What the Pythons Did Next… | Narrator | 2007-01-01 | A look at the careers of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam in the years after Monty Python’s Flying… |
| Wings | Audrey | 2020-10-06 | A heartwarming love story that spans over six decades, between two Land Army girls during World War II…. |
| The IMAX Nutcracker | Sugar Plum | 1997-11-27 | This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman’s story is a straight narrative fantasy rather than a ballet. Little Clara receives a Chri… |
| Next to You | Granny Vera | 2023-01-01 | Set five years on from the school days of director Stevan Filipovic’s previous film Next to Me, a state of emergency exists and politicians are accuse… |
| The Last Artifact | Narrator (UK version) | 2020-01-01 | Just outside Paris, France, inside a high-tech vault, requiring three independently controlled keys, rests a small metallic cylinder about the diamete… |
| Miriam’s Dickensian Christmas | 2022-12-20 | Self-confessed Christmas Scrooge, Miriam Margolyes, turns to her love of Charles Dickens and the festive traditions in ‘A Christmas Carol’ to see if s… | |
| The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Narrator (voice) | 2007-02-03 | Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas … |
| James and the Giant Peach | Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice) | 1996-04-12 | When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strang… |
| Babe | Fly the Female Sheepdog (voice) | 1995-07-18 | Babe is a little pig who doesn’t quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster an… |
| The First Snow of Winter | Sean McDuck (voice) | 1998-12-25 | Sean is a little duck with a big problem. Due to a mishap with a jet aircraft Sean misses the annual migration South and has to face the winter alone…. |
| Outlier | 2014-10-01 | Cancer patient and successful writer Lilith Winterbottom should be dead by now. But the cynical misanthrope seems to scare even death away, in order t… | |
| Echoes That Remain | Narrator (voice) | 1991-06-01 | Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sit… |
| Postcards from the 48% | 2018-07-06 | This is a film made by the some of the 48% who voted Remain. The film is of the 48% and for the 48%. It is their story, feelings and reasons for remai… | |
| The Thin End of the Wedge | Veronica | 1977-12-20 | ‘Five days of darkness then. Unless you get it together we will have five days of darkness. And on the sixth day you will say, let there be light, and… |
| Not Afraid, Not Afraid | 2001-01-01 | After being abandoned by her husband after 28 years, an overbearing, self-centered psychologist embarks on a quest to revisit her past loves, accompan… | |
| My Happy Ending | Judy | 2023-02-24 | Andie MacDowell stars as a famous actor who goes incognito to seek treatment for a medical issue. While at the hospital, she meets three unique and r… |
| Naughty Girls | Voice | 1975-12-12 | A travelogue depicting the adventures of English girls when they visit the Far East…. |
| Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs | Self | 2022-04-25 | Miriam Margolyes is one of Britain’s best loved and most provocative actresses. Across her eclectic career, she has played scene-stealing turns in B… |
| Different for Girls | Pamela | 1996-10-01 | Paul reunites with his schoolmate Kim, and finds out she’s actually a woman who has transitioned since they last met. She has no desire to stir up the… |
| The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas | Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice) | 2012-12-19 | Marjorie the cow lives in a run-down stable in the middle of Bethlehem. Nothing exciting ever happens in Bethlehem until now… there’s a census or … |
| Sir Billi | Baroness Chantal McToff (voice) | 2012-04-13 | An aging, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of duty fighting villainous policemen and powerful lairds in a battle to… |
| Orpheus Descending | Vee Talbot | 1990-06-01 | Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940’s Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage…. |
| Being Julia | Dolly de Vries | 2004-09-03 | Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all – including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant… |
| The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship | Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter | 1990-09-28 | Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could build a flying ship would win the hand of the Tsar’s d… |
| House! | Auntie Beth | 2000-01-01 | A small bingo hall is threatened by the opening of the country’s largest bingo centre nearby…. |
| David Baddiel: Jews Don’t Count | Self | 2022-11-21 | The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen … |
| Judi Dench: Our National Treasure | Self | 2022-07-15 | A profile of the actress from a strict Quaker upbringing in Yorkshire, through her staunch determination to make it as a thespian. There’s also a look… |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Peg Sellers | 2004-10-01 | The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings as a comic performer on BBC Radio to his huge suc… |
| Cats & Dogs | Sophie the Castle Maid | 2001-07-04 | When a professor develops a vaccine that eliminates human allergies to dogs, he unwittingly upsets the fragile balance of power between cats and dogs … |
| The Wedding Video | Patricia | 2012-08-17 | When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim’s best man at his wedding, he decides the best present for the happy newlyweds woul… |
| Liberation | Narrator | 1994-01-01 | Liberation tells the dramatic story of the battle waged on two fronts during World War II – the Allied campaign to liberate Europe and Hitler’s genoci… |
| Ed and His Dead Mother | Mabel Chilton | 1993-06-04 | A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction…. |
| Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti | (voice) | 1983-01-01 | An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but complex in its analysis, it explores the divergen… |
| Spirit-ED | Headmistress – Ms Ursula Gressup | 2015-12-01 | What if Angels went to school too? Spirit-ED is a magical, fantasy adventure set in Divinity, a school for guardian angels. Following the perilous adv… |
| Old Flames | Nellie | 1990-01-14 | Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and … |
| The Seventeenth Kind | Mrs. Mark | 2014-07-01 | Black comedy scifi about a washed up TV presenter who doesn’t let small things like alien invasions stop him from broadcasting…. |
| The Long Way Home | (voice) | 1997-09-19 | The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel…. |
| The Lifeswappers | 1976-04-12 | Who would you be if you could choose? Princess Anne? Linda Lovelace? The Prime Minister? Since things are already so bad for Trevor – rotten job, bi… | |
| A Nice Girl Like Me | Pensione | 1969-11-23 | Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for … |
| Wallis & Edward | Aunt Bessie | 2005-12-18 | In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around t… |
| The Battle of Billy’s Pond | 1976-01-01 | A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment…. | |
| Early Man | Queen Oofeefa (voice) | 2018-01-26 | Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the men… |
| H Is for Happiness | Miss Bamford | 2021-06-24 | A twelve year old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world, is inspired by the strange new boy at school and sets out to mend her b… |
| Immortal Beloved | Nanette Streicherová | 1994-12-16 | A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven’s death in… |
| The Good Father | Jane Powell | 1985-11-01 | Bill is a man who’s very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so … |
| Ladies in Lavender | Dorcas | 2004-11-12 | Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover … |
| Modigliani | Gertrude Stein | 2004-05-18 | Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo… |
| Maya the Bee Movie | The Queen (voice) | 2014-09-11 | Freshly hatched bee Maya is a little whirlwind and won’t follow the rules of the hive. One of these rules is not to trust the hornets that live beyond… |
| Scotch & Wry | 1986-11-03 | Video Compilation of the Scottish TV Comedy Sketch Show. Stand out characters include Supercop, an idiot motorcycle policeman whose catchphrase was ‘A… | |
| Romeo + Juliet | Nurse | 1996-11-01 | In director Baz Luhrmann’s contemporary take on William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the… |
| Stalin | Krupskaya | 1992-11-21 | The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin…. |
| Body Contact | Tony’s Mother | 1987-01-01 | Rock musical set in the future, around Tottenham and Hackney. Taxi driver, Smiley, helps beautiful Dominique Renoir, who is on the run from her violen… |
| Harry Potter: A History Of Magic | Herself | 2017-10-28 | A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story … |
| Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears | Prudence Stanley | 2020-02-27 | After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective fr… |
| Blackadder’s Christmas Carol | Queen Victoria | 1988-12-23 | After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways…. |
| Cold Comfort Farm | Mrs. Beetle | 1995-01-01 | In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough rela… |
| The Apple | Landlady | 1980-11-21 | In the glitzy, glittering futuristic world of 1994, music is king — and the man who controls it is all-powerful malicious mogul Mr. Boogalow. Now he … |
| The Butcher’s Wife | Gina | 1991-10-25 | A clairvoyant woman thinks that she’s met her future husband because she’s seen him in a dream. They marry and he takes her back to his butcher shop i… |
| A Closed Book | Mrs. Kilbride | 2012-07-13 | Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer’s abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has anot… |
| Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall | 2021-03-15 | Inspired by “Letters of Note”, the bestselling anthology compiled by Shaun Usher, and “To the Letter” by Simon Garfield, Letters Live is a series of c… | |
| The Fringe, Fame and Me | Self | 2022-08-08 | The Fringe, Fame and Me is the story of how a small Scottish arts festival that began 75 years ago this year became a national institution – a cruci… |
| Mulan | The Matchmaker (voice) | 1998-06-18 | To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China’s greatest heroines in the pro… |
| End of Days | Mabel | 1999-11-24 | On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by comi… |
| The Dukes | Aunt Vee | 2007-04-23 | The Dukes,a Doo Wop group, were on top of the world at 17, now are struggling for survival in 2008. Their manager is desperately trying to get them wo… |
| Electric Dreams | Ticket Girl | 1984-07-20 | Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled on him. Things start gett… |
| The Legend of Longwood | 2014-11-16 | When 12-year-old Mickey Miller moves from New York to Ireland, she soon discovers a link between herself and the 300-year-old legend of the mysterious… | |
| The Man Who Invented Christmas | Mrs. Fisk | 2017-10-12 | In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, … |
| The Thief and the Cobbler | Maiden from Mombassa (voice) | 1993-09-23 | It is written among the limitless constellations of the celestial heavens, and in the depths of the emerald seas, and upon every grain of sand in the… |
| I Love You to Death | Joey’s Mother | 1990-04-06 | Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been che… |
| Flushed Away | Rita’s Grandma (voice) | 2006-10-22 | London high-society mouse, Roddy is flushed down the toilet by Sid, a common sewer rat. Hang on for a madcap adventure deep in the sewer bowels of Rat… |
| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole | Mrs. Plithiver (voice) | 2010-07-10 | Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie’s, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his… |
| The Awakening | Dr. Kadira | 1980-07-31 | When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen’s tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter…. |
| The Itch of the Golden Nit | Mummy Socks (voice) | 2011-06-28 | Eleven-year-old Beanie’s bland life is changed for ever when he is sent on a mission. Armed only with laser lip-gloss and a pair of blend-in pants he … |
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Mrs. Kowalski | 2008-10-02 | Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attra… |
| As You Like It | Audrey | 1992-10-09 | Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad … |
| Happy Feet | Mrs. Astrakhan (voice) | 2006-11-16 | Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fier… |
| Little Dorrit | Flora Finching | 1987-12-11 | A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young sea… |
| Sunshine | Rose Sonnenschein | 1999-09-13 | The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the cru… |
| Stand up, Virgin Soldiers | Elephant Ethel | 1977-04-04 | Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists…. |
| Morons from Outer Space | Doctor Wallace | 1985-03-29 | The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. Dur… |
| Balto | Grandma Rosy | 1995-12-22 | An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska…. |
| The Little Vampire 3D | Wulftrud (voice) | 2017-10-04 | Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of “similar” age (313!… |
| Little Shop of Horrors | Dental Nurse | 1986-12-19 | Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and … |
| Blackadder’s Most Cunning Moments | Self | 2008-10-16 | A countdown of the top 40 “Blackadder” moments chosen by cast and crew members, celebrity fans and 15 genuine Blackadders…. |
| Unexplained Laughter | Laughter (voice) | 1989-04-25 | British Drama Based On a novel… |
| Undertaking Betty | Thelma & Selma | 2002-12-04 | A politician’s wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together…. |
| Yentl | Sarah | 1983-11-18 | Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also i… |
| Dead Again | Hypnotism Patient | 1991-08-23 | In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is so… |
| Pacific Heights | Realtor | 1990-09-28 | A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own…. |
| The Guilt Trip | Anita | 2012-12-19 | An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention…. |
| Babe: Pig in the City | Fly (voice) | 1998-11-25 | Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett’s farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Ba… |
| The Age of Innocence | Mrs. Catherine Mingott | 1993-09-10 | In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman’s cousin… |
| Scrubbers | Jones | 1982-09-24 | Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls…. |
| We Are Most Amused | Herself | 2008-11-15 | We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, … |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | Pomona Sprout | 2011-07-07 | Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wiza… |
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Pomona Sprout | 2002-11-13 | Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw… |
| Magnolia | Faye Barringer | 1999-12-10 | An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley…. |
| In Search of Peace | Ester Cailingold (voice) | 2001-09-21 | In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel’s first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. Combining a ric… |
| Chasing Liberty | Maria | 2004-01-09 | The President’s daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in … |
| Confessions from a Holiday Camp | Blackbird (voice) (uncredited) | 1977-01-01 | Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney Noggett are working as entertainment officers at Funfrall, a typical British holiday camp. The staff are lazy … |
| On the Game | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1974-02-01 | Comic look at the history of prostitution…. |
| Reds | Woman with Notebook (uncredited) | 1981-12-25 | An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co… |
| Magnolia | Faye Barringer (uncredited) | 1999-12-10 | An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Creator | The Story of Queen Victoria, narrated by Miriam Margolyes (Call The Midwife; Blackadder), uses Queen Victoria’s diaries, journals, letters and archive… | ||
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