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Starring:

Miriam Margolyes

  • First Movie - A Nice Girl Like Me 1969
  • Last Movie - My Happy Ending 2023
  • Total Movies - 90
  • Highest Grossing Movies
    • UK: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) - £74,328,182
    • US: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) - $381,011,219
    • World: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011) - $1,342,321,665
  • Combined grosses
    • UK - £268.4 Million
    • US - $1.5 Billion
    • Global - $4.2 Billion
  • Highest Rated Movie - Cats & Dogs (2001) - 100%
  • Lowest rated movie - End of Days (1999) - 2%

Acting credits By Year of release

My Happy Ending

(Miriam Margolyes plays Judy)

Director(s):
Tal GranitSharon Maymon

Starring:
Andie MacDowellMiriam MargolyesTamsin Greig • Sally Phillips • Tom Cullen

2023

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

(Miriam Margolyes plays Prudence Stanley)

Director(s):
Tony Tilse

Starring:
Essie Davis • Miriam Margolyes • Ashleigh Cummings • Rupert Penry-Jones • Jacqueline McKenzie

2020

Greatest Chocolate Adverts of All Time

(Miriam Margolyes plays Cadbury's Caramel Advert)

Director(s):
Blake McGrowJohn S. Abbott Jr.Russell BatesJohn BirkinBob BrooksTom BussmannJuan CabralChris CairnsSimon CheekRoss CramerTerence DonovanMatt ForrestKeith GodmanNick GoffeyTerry GreenOscar GrilloHoward GuardDominic HawleyVernon HoweBen Liam JonesTerry KembleMarc Kitchen-SmithDaniel KleinmanThomas KrygierTom KuntzMartin Lambie-NairnTony LawsonNick LewinJohn LloydKen LoachRichard LoncraineBob MahoneyDavid MalletTony MayMick MessengerBrian MorrowSarah MurchBarry MyersJohn O'DriscollChris PalmerMike PortellyGeoff PosnerP. PullenMartin ReavleySergio SimonettiIan SingleRichard SlogettAlan SpencerPeter SuschitzkyBaillie WalshPaul WeilandRichard WilliamsTerry Winsor

Starring:
Faye Bamford • Antonella • Leslie Ash • Rowan Atkinson • Joan Collins

2019

H Is For Happiness

(Miriam Margolyes plays Miss Bamford)

Director(s):
John Sheedy

Starring:
Miriam MargolyesRichard Roxburgh • Emma Booth • Joel Jackson • Deborah Mailman
2019

The Little Vampire

Director(s):
Richard ClausKarsten Kiilerich

Starring:
Rasmus Hardiker • Amy Saville • Jim Carter • Joseph Kloska • Phoebe Givron-Taylor

2018

Early Man

Director(s):
2018

The Man Who Invented Christmas

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Fisk)

Director(s):
Bharat Nalluri

Starring:
Dan StevensChristopher PlummerJonathan Pryce • Mark Schrier • Patrick Joseph Byrnes

2017

Maya the Bee Movie

Director(s):
Alexs Stadermann

Starring:
Jacki Weaver • Miriam Margolyes • Kodi Smit-McPhee • Noah Taylor • Richard Roxburgh

2015

The Legend of Longwood

Director(s):
Lisa Mulcahy

Starring:
Lorcan Bonner • Brendan Conroy • Lorcan Cranitch • Stephen Cromwell • Kate Gilmore

2015

Sir Billi

(Miriam Margolyes plays Chantalle McToff)

Director(s):
Sascha Hartmann

Starring:
Sean Connery • Alan Cumming • Ruby WaxMiriam Margolyes • Ford Kiernan

2012

The Guilt Trip

(Miriam Margolyes plays Anita)

Director(s):
Starring:
Barbra StreisandSeth Rogen • Kathy Najimy • Miriam Margolyes • Rose Abdoo

2012

The Wedding VIdeo

Director(s):
Nigel Cole

Starring:
Lucy PunchMiriam Margolyes • Robert Webb • Cara Horgan • Harriet Walter

2012

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

(Miriam Margolyes plays Professor Pomona Sprout)

Director(s):
2011

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole

Director(s):
Starring:
Emily Barclay • Abbie Cornish • Essie Davis • Adrienne DeFaria • Joel Edgerton

2010

A Closed Book

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Kilbride)

Director(s):
Raoul Ruiz

Starring:
Tom Conti • Daryl Hannah • Miriam Margolyes • Elaine Paige • Simon MacCorkindale

2009

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Kowalski)

Director(s):
Starring:
Kelan Guy • Janette Scott • Danny Huston • Simon PeggMegan Fox

2008

The Dukes

(Miriam Margolyes plays Aunt Vee)

Director(s):
Robert Davi

Starring:
Chazz Palminteri • Robert Davi • Peter Bogdanovich • Frank DAmico • Elya Baskin

2007

Happy Feet

Director(s):
George MillerWarren ColemanJudy Morris

Starring:
Carlos Alazraqui • Lombardo Boyar • Jeffrey Garcia • Johnny A. Sanchez • Robin Williams
2006

Flushed Away

Director(s):
David BowersSam Fell

Starring:
2006

Wallis and Edward

(Miriam Margolyes plays Aunt Bessie)

Director(s):
David Moore

Starring:
Joely Richardson • David Westhead • Lisa Kay • Helena Michell • Stephen Campbell Moore

2005

Ladies In Lavender

Director(s):
Charles Dance

Starring:
Judi DenchMaggie Smith • Natascha McElhone • Daniel Brhl • Miriam Margolyes

2004

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

(Miriam Margolyes plays Peg Sellers)

Director(s):
Stephen Hopkins

2004

Modigliani

(Miriam Margolyes plays Gertrude Stein)

Director(s):
Mick Davis

Starring:
Andy Garcia • Elsa Zylberstein • Omid Djalili • Hippolyte Girardot • Eva Herzigova

2004

Chasing Liberty

Director(s):
Andy Cadiff

Starring:
Mandy Moore • Stark Sands • Tony Jayawardena • Jeremy Piven • Annabella Sciorra

2004

Being Julia

Director(s):
Istvan Szabo

Starring:
Michael GambonAnnette Bening • Leigh Lawson • Shaun Evans • Mari Kiss

2004

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

(Miriam Margolyes plays Professor Sprout)

Director(s):
Starring:
Daniel RadcliffeRupert GrintEmma Watson • Richard Griffiths • Fiona Shaw
2002

Undertaking Betty

Director(s):
Nick Hurran

Starring:
Hannah Higgins • Joshua Jenkins • Shaun Phillips • Alfred Molina • Brenda Blethyn

2002

Alone

Director(s):
Starring:
John Shrapnel • Miriam Margolyes • Laurel Holloman • Isabel Brook • Caroline Carver

2002

Cats & Dogs

Director(s):
Lawrence Guterman

Starring:
Jeff Goldblum • Elizabeth Perkins • Alexander Pollock • Miriam Margolyes • Myron Natwick
2001

Not Afraid Not Afraid

Director(s):
Annette Carducci

Starring:
Jack DavenportMiriam Margolyes • Michael Weir • Dianne Wiest • Elsa Zylberstein
2001

House

(Miriam Margolyes plays Beth)

Director(s):
Julian Kemp

Starring:
Kelly Macdonald • Stacey Ashton • Keith Chegwin • Ifan Huw Dafydd • Dean Davies

2000

Magnolia

(Miriam Margolyes plays Faye Barringer)

Starring:
Jeremy Blackman • Tom Cruise • Melinda Dillon • Philip Baker Hall • Philip Seymour Hoffman

1999

End of Days

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mabel)

Director(s):
Peter Hyams

Starring:
Arnold Schwarzenegger • Gabriel Byrne • Robin Tunney • Kevin Pollak • CCH Pounder
1999

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

(Miriam Margolyes plays Signora Caldoni)

Director(s):
Starring:
Rupert Graves • Samantha Morton • Nicholas Woodeson • Lee Ross • Felix Billson

1999

Sunshine

Director(s):
Istvan Szabo

Starring:
Ralph Fiennes • Rosemary Harris • Rachel WeiszJennifer Ehle • Deborah Kara Unger

1999

Babe: Pig In the City

Director(s):
Starring:
Magda Szubanski • James Cromwell • Mary Stein • Mickey Rooney • Elizabeth Daily
1998

Left Luggage

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Goldblum)

Director(s):
Jeroen Krabbe

Starring:
Laura Fraser • Adam Monty • Isabella Rossellini • Jeroen Krabbe • Topol

1998

Mulan

(Miriam Margolyes plays The Matchmaker)

Director(s):
Tony BancroftBarry Cook

Starring:
Miguel Ferrer • Harvey Fierstein • Freda Foh Shen • June Foray • James Hong
1998

Candy

(Miriam Margolyes plays Gisella)

Director(s):
Anthony Fabian

Starring:
Oliver Tobias • Lone Madsen • Brooke Kinsella • Miriam Margolyes • Clare Matthews

1998

William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet

Director(s):
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprioClaire Danes • John Leguizamo • Harold Perrineau • Pete Postlethwaite

1997

The Place of Lions

(Miriam Margolyes plays Miss Cole)

Director(s):
Audrey Cooke

Starring:
Miriam MargolyesHugh LaurieAlfred Molina • Guy Edwards • Seputla Sebogodi

1997

Different For Girls

(Miriam Margolyes plays Pamela)

Director(s):
Richard Spence

Starring:
Steven Mackintosh • Rupert Graves • Miriam Margolyes • Saskia Reeves • Charlotte Coleman

1996

James and the Giant Peach

Director(s):
Starring:
Simon Callow • Richard Dreyfuss • Jane Leeves • Joanna Lumley • Miriam Margolyes
1996

Balto

(Miriam Margolyes plays Grandma Rosy / Extra Voices)

Director(s):
Simon Wells

Starring:
Kevin Bacon • Bob Hoskins • Bridget Fonda • Jim Cummings • Phil Collins

1995

Babe

Director(s):
Chris Noonan

Starring:
Christine Cavanaugh • Miriam Margolyes • Danny Mann • Hugo Weaving • Miriam Flynn
1995

Immortal Beloved

(Miriam Margolyes plays Nanette Streicherova)

Director(s):
Bernard Rose

Starring:
Gary Oldman • Jeroen Krabbe • Isabella Rossellini • Johanna ter Steege • Marco Hofschneider

1995

Cold Comfort Farm

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Beetle)

Director(s):
Starring:
Eileen Atkins • Kate Beckinsale • Sheila Burrell • Stephen Fry • Freddie Jones

1995

The Age of Innocence

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Mingott)

Director(s):
Starring:
1993

Ed and His Dead Mother

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mabel Chilton)

Director(s):
Jonathan Wacks

Starring:
Eric Christmas • Steve Buscemi • Harper Roisman • Sam Jenkins • Ned Beatty

1993

The Princess and the Cobbler

Director(s):
Richard Williams

Starring:
Vincent Price • Bobbi Page • Steve Lively • Ed E. Carroll • Clive Revill

1993

As You Like It

(Miriam Margolyes plays Audrey)

Director(s):
Christine Edzard

Starring:
James Fox • Cyril Cusack • Andrew Tiernan • Cate Fowler • Robin Meredith

1992

The Butchers Wife

Director(s):
Terry Hughes

Starring:
Demi MooreJeff Daniels • George Dzundza • Mary Steenburgen • Frances McDormand

1992

Stalin

(Miriam Margolyes plays Krupskaya)

Director(s):
Ivan Passer

Starring:
Robert Duvall • Julia Ormond • Maximilian Schell • Jeroen Krabbe • Joan Plowright

1992

Dead Again

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Tupper)

Director(s):
Starring:
Kenneth Branagh • Andy Garcia • Emma Thompson • Lois Hall • Richard Easton
1991

Pacific Heights

Director(s):
Starring:
Melanie Griffith • Matthew Modine • Michael Keaton • Mako • Nobu McCarthy

1991

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mother / Mrs Woodcutter)

Director(s):
Francis Vose

Starring:
Robin Bailey • Maurice Denham • Jimmy Hibbert • Martin Jarvis • Edward Kelsey

1991

The Fool

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Bowring)

Director(s):
Christine Edzard

Starring:
Derek Jacobi • Cyril Cusack • Ruth Mitchell • Maria Aitken • Irina Brook

1990

I Love You to Death

Director(s):
Lawrence Kasdan

Starring:
Kevin Kline • Tracey Ullman • Joan Plowright • River Phoenix • William Hurt

1990

Orpheus Descending

(Miriam Margolyes plays Vee Talbot)

Director(s):
Peter Hall

Starring:
Kevin Anderson • Brad Sullivan • Manning Redwood • Vanessa Redgrave • Sloane Shelton

1990

Murderers Among Us the Simon Wiesenthal Story

(Miriam Margolyes plays Mrs. Rajzman)

Director(s):
Starring:
Ben Kingsley • Renée Soutendijk • Craig T. Nelson • Anton Lesser • Jack Shepherd

1989

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

(Miriam Margolyes plays Queen Victoria)

Director(s):
Richard Boden

Starring:
Rowan Atkinson • Tony Robinson • Miranda Richardson • Stephen FryHugh Laurie

1988

Little Dorrit

Director(s):
Christine Edzard

Starring:
Derek Jacobi • Joan Greenwood • Max Wall • Patricia Hayes • Luke Duckett
1988

The Finding

(Miriam Margolyes plays Poll)

Director(s):
Carol Wiseman

Starring:
Alison Steadman • Roger Rees • Moira Lister • Miriam Margolyes • James Older

1987

Little Shop of Horrors

Director(s):
Starring:
Levi StubbsRick Moranis • Ellen Greene • Vincent Gardenia • Steve Martin

1987

Body Contact

Director(s):
Bernard Rose

Starring:
Harry Fowler • Christopher Fulford • Tony Hippolyte • Miriam MargolyesJoely Richardson
1987

Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story

(Miriam Margolyes plays Elsa Maxwell (part 1))

Director(s):
Charles Jarrott

Starring:
Farrah Fawcett • David Ackroyd • Stephane Audran • Amadeus August • Nicholas Clay

1987

Scotch and Wry

(Miriam Margolyes plays Various)

Director(s):
Gordon Menzies

Starring:
Rikki Fulton • Gregor Fisher • Claire Nielson • Tony Roper • Miriam Margolyes

1986

Honour, Profit & Pleasure

(Miriam Margolyes plays Elephant & Castle)

Director(s):
Anna Ambrose

Starring:
Simon Callow • Alan Devlin • Jean Rigby • Christopher Benjamin • Bernard Hepton

1985

Morons From Outer Space

(Miriam Margolyes plays Doctor Wallace)

Director(s):
Starring:
Mel Smith • Griff Rhys Jones • James Sikking • Dinsdale Landen • Joanne Pearce
1985

The Good Father

Director(s):
Mike Newell

Starring:
Anthony HopkinsJim BroadbentHarriet Walter • Frances Viner • Simon Callow

1985

Electric Dreams

Director(s):
Starring:
Lenny von Dohlen • Virginia Madsen • Maxwell Caulfield • Bud Cort • Don Fellows

1984

Yentl

(Miriam Margolyes plays Sarah)

Director(s):
Barbra Streisand

Starring:
Barbra Streisand • Mandy Patinkin • Amy Irving • Nehemiah Persoff • Steven Hill
1983

Gunfight At the Joe Kaye Corral

(Miriam Margolyes plays Cynthia)

Director(s):
Ken Grieve

Starring:
Mark Eden • Mark McManus • Claire Nielson • Sheila Reid • Mary-Ann Coburn

1983

Scrubbers

(Miriam Margolyes plays Jones)

Director(s):
Mai Zetterling

Starring:
Amanda York • Chrissie Cotterill • Elizabeth Edmonds • Kate Ingram • Mandi Symonds

1982

Crystal Gazing

(Miriam Margolyes plays Newsreader)

Director(s):
Laura MulveyPeter Wollen

Starring:
Gavin Richards • Lora Logic • Mary Maddox • Jeff Rawle • Alan Porter

1982

Reds

(Miriam Margolyes plays Woman Writing in Notebook (uncredited))

Director(s):
Starring:
Warren BeattyDiane Keaton • Edward Herrmann • Jerzy Kosinski • Jack Nicholson

1981

Star Rock

(Miriam Margolyes plays Landlady)

Director(s):
Menahem Golan

Starring:
Catherine Mary Stewart • George Gilmour • Grace Kennedy • Allan Love • Joss Ackland

1980

The Awakening

Director(s):
Mike Newell

Starring:
Charlton Heston • Susannah York • Jill Townsend • Stephanie Zimbalist • Patrick Drury

1980

On a Paving Stone Mounted

Director(s):
Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Starring:
Annie Balfour • Paul Bennett • Gabriel Byrne • Peter Caffrey • May Cluskey

1978

Spasms

(Miriam Margolyes plays Rose Finn)

Director(s):
Michael Mills

Starring:
Jenny Cox • Robin Hawdon • Miriam MargolyesJonathan Pryce

1977

Confessions From a Holiday Camp

(Miriam Margolyes plays Blackbird)

Director(s):
Starring:
Robin Askwith • Anthony Booth • Bill Maynard • Doris Hare • Sheila White
1977

Stand Up VIrgin Soldiers

(Miriam Margolyes plays Elephant Ethel)

Director(s):
Starring:
Robin Askwith • Nigel Davenport • George Layton • John Le Mesurier • Warren Mitchell

1977

Christmas Box

(Miriam Margolyes plays Maurie Kaplan's Mother)

Director(s):
Bruce Gowers

Starring:
Stanley Baxter • Miriam Margolyes • Moray Watson • Norman Maen • The Tony Mansell Singers

1976

Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd

(Miriam Margolyes plays Laura)

Director(s):
Simon Langton

Starring:
Penelope Wilton • David Daker • Keith Drinkel • Anna Wing • Ann Beach

1976

The Battle of Billys Pond

(Miriam Margolyes plays Tour Guide)

Director(s):
Starring:
Ben Buckton • Andrew Ashby • Talfryn Thomas • Ann Beach • Keith James

1976

Naughty Girls

(Miriam Margolyes plays Girls' voices)

Director(s):
Peter Shillingford

Starring:
Kate Ferguson • Brenda Holder • Cathy Scott • Angela Unwin • Julian Holloway
1975

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

(Miriam Margolyes plays Dorothy Wordsworth)

Director(s):
Raul daSilva

Starring:
Roland Curram • Geoffrey Hutchings • Michael Johnson • Miriam Margolyes • George Murcell

1975

On the Game

(Miriam Margolyes plays Narrator)

Director(s):
Stanley A. Long

Starring:
Charles Gray • Lloyd Lamble • Gloria Maley • Olive McFarland • Paddy Ryan

1974

The Water Margin

Director(s):
Cheh ChangHsueh Li PaoWu Ma

Starring:
David Chiang • Lung Ti • Kuan Tai Chen • Chung Wang • Tetsuro Tanba

1972

A Nice Girl Like Me

(Miriam Margolyes plays Pensione 'Mama')

Director(s):
Starring:
Barbara Ferris • Harry Andrews • Gladys Cooper • William Hinnant • James Villiers

1969