Miriam Margolyes

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).

Cast

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Narrator (voice)

James and the Giant Peach

Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

I Love You to Death

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

The Matchmaker (voice)

The Last Artifact

Narrator (UK version)

The Age of Innocence

Mrs. Catherine Mingott

Pacific Heights

Undertaking Betty

Sophie the Castle Maid

Rita's Grandma (voice)

Babe: Pig in the City

Cold Comfort Farm

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

Immortal Beloved

Nanette Streicherová

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

The Good Father

Rose Sonnenschein

Electric Dreams

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Signora Caldoni

Mog's Christmas

Aunt One (voice)

The First Snow of Winter

Sean McDuck (voice)

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

Different for Girls

Hypnotism Patient

The Wedding Video

Blackadder: A Cunning Story

Self - Narrator (voice)

My Happy Ending

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

The Long Way Home

imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs

Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

The Seventeenth Kind

The Lifeswappers

Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Itch of the Golden Nit

Mummy Socks (voice)

Unexplained Laughter

Laughter (voice)

A Nice Girl Like Me

Stand up, Virgin Soldiers

Ladies in Lavender

Morons from Outer Space

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Wallis & Edward

Orpheus Descending

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

Ed and His Dead Mother

The Butcher's Wife

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Little Shop of Horrors

The Fringe, Fame and Me

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Maya the Bee Movie

The Legend of Longwood

When Harry Left Hogwarts

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

We Are Most Amused

Miriam's Dickensian Christmas

Judi Dench: Our National Treasure

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

Narrator (voice)

The Battle of Billy's Pond

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

Narrator (voice)

The Man Who Invented Christmas

Echoes That Remain

Narrator (voice)

Headmistress - Ms Ursula Gressup

Harry Potter: A History Of Magic

The Little Vampire 3D

Wulftrud (voice)

Queen Oofeefa (voice)

The Thief and the Cobbler

Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

Postcards from the 48%

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

Prudence Stanley

H Is for Happiness

What the Pythons Did Next...

The Thin End of the Wedge

The IMAX Nutcracker

In Search of Peace

Ester Cailingold (voice)

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

Not Afraid, Not Afraid

Blackadder's Most Cunning Moments

Chasing Liberty

How To Make It In Comedy

The Importance of Being Miriam

Angels in the Asylum

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

A Friend of Dorothy

The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

The Phoenix and the Carpet

Peter and the Wolf

Hilda: The Fairy Isle

Aunt Astrid (Voice)