Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes

Born in Oxford, England in 1941 and educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, Miriam Margolyes is a veteran of stage and screen, an award-winning actress who achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence, she also received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role in Little Dorrit and a Sony Radio Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her unabridged recording of ‘Oliver Twist’. She was the voice of the Matchmaker in Mulan & Fly, the mother dog, in Babe.

Her voice work has been internationally acclaimed & she is regarded as the most accomplished female voice in Britain: she has recorded many audio books including Oliver Twist, Great

Acting

2026

2023

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
Movie

The Meep (voice) (archive footage)

2023

Mog's Christmas
Movie

Aunt One (voice)

2023

Hilda: The Fairy Isle
Movie

Aunt Astrid (Voice)

2023

Hilda: The Fairy Isle
Movie

Aunt Astrid (Voice)

2023

Blackadder: A Cunning Story
Movie

Self - Narrator (voice)

2021

2020

2020

2020

2020

2019

2018

Apple & Onion
Tv

Queen Victoria Sponge (voice)

2018

Early Man
Movie

Queen Oofeefa (voice)

2017

2016

2014

Outlier
Movie

Odamee Marshall

2014

2012

A Closed Book
Movie

Mrs. Kilbride

2012

Sir Billi
Movie

Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

2012

Call the Midwife
Tv

Mother Mildred

2011

2008

Merlin
Tv

Grunhilda

2008

Q&A
Tv

Self - Panellist

2007

2007

Kingdom
Tv

Henny Leach

2006

Happy Feet
Movie

Mrs. Astrakhan (voice)

2006

Flushed Away
Movie

Rita's Grandma (voice)

2005

American Dad!
Tv

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

2004

2004

Being Julia
Movie

Dolly de Vries

2004

Modigliani
Movie

Gertrude Stein

2002

2002

Dickens
Tv

Catherine Dickens

2002

Alone
Movie

Caseworker

2001

In Search of Peace
Movie

Ester Cailingold (voice)

2001

Cats & Dogs
Movie

Sophie the Castle Maid

2000

House!
Movie

Auntie Beth

1999

Magnolia
Movie

Faye Barringer (uncredited)

1999

1999

Sunshine
Movie

Rose Sonnenschein

1998

1998

Mulan
Movie

The Matchmaker (voice)

1996

James and the Giant Peach
Movie

Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

1995

Balto
Movie

Grandma Rosy

1995

Babe
Movie

Fly (voice)

1995

1994

Immortal Beloved
Movie

Nanette Streicherová

1994

1993

The Thief and the Cobbler
Movie

Maiden from Mombassa (voice)

1993

The Age of Innocence
Movie

Mrs. Catherine Mingott

1992

Stalin
Movie

Krupskaya

1991

Dead Again
Movie

Hypnotism Patient

1991

Rugrats
Tv

Shirley Finster (voice)

1990

The Fool
Movie

Mrs. Bowring

1990

1990

1987

Little Dorrit
Movie

Flora Finching

1987

1986

Muzzy in Gondoland
Tv

The Queen (voice)

1985

1984

Freud
Tv

Baroness von Lieben

1984

1983

1983

Blackadder
Tv

Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain

1983

Blackadder
Tv

Lady Whiteadder

1982

1982

1981

Reds
Movie

Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

1981

The History Man
Tv

Melissa Tordoroff

1980

1980

1978

Monkey
Tv

Narator

1978

Monkey
Tv

Demon (voice)

1977

Confessions from a Holiday Camp
Movie

Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

1976

The Lifeswappers
Movie

Miriam/Miss Babberton

1976

Kizzy
Tv

Mrs Doe

1976

Kizzy
Tv

Unknown

Writing

Infos

Full Name
Miriam Margolyes
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
5/18/1941
Website
/author/list/70683.Miriam_Margolyes
Also Known As

Miriam Margolyes, OBE

میریام مارگولیس