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Acting

Miriam Margolyes

Career: Active from 1967 to 2026, busiest in 2004 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 45
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: The Long Way Home
87/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 94 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Miriam Margolyes Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.8, average 5.4
Violence
2.8, average 4.1
Crime
2.2, average 3.6
Adrenaline
3.5, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 6
Character Study 6
Social Commentary 4
Biographical Drama 3
Historical Documentary 2
Political History 2
Archival Footage 2
Tragic Romance 2
Children's Fantasy 2
Whimsical Adventure 2
Heartwarming 2
Family-Friendly 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

169

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

2 titles

Nightling

as Mad Marti (voice)

Heart of Darkness

as The Aunt

2020s

14 titles · average score 57

Holy Days

41

as Sister Luke

Badjelly

TV show · as Badjelly (voice)

A Friend of Dorothy

71

as Dorothy

My Happy Ending

41

as Judy

Next to You

46

as Granny Vera

Mog's Christmas

72

as Aunt One (voice)

Dog Squad

TV show · as Sylvie (voice)

H Is for Happiness

61

as Miss Bamford

Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership

TV show · as Narrator

Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

66

as Prudence Stanley

Wings

as Audrey

The Last Artifact

as Narrator (UK version)

2010s

26 titles · average score 59

Early Man

66

as Queen Oofeefa (voice)

Bucket

59

TV show · as Mim

as Maria Aponte

Maya the Bee Movie

51

as Queen (voice)

as Odamee Marshall

Sir Billi

14

as Baroness Chantal McToff (voice)

A Closed Book

28

as Mrs. Kilbride

Call the Midwife

82

TV show · as Mother Mildred

The Wedding Video

47

as Patricia

The Cow That Almost Missed Christmas

as Mme Daniels / Mme Rat / Judith (voice)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

86

as Pomona Sprout

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

59

as Mrs. Plithiver (voice)

2000s

29 titles · average score 59

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

as Narrator (voice)

American Dad!

60

TV show · as Margaret Hilda Thatcher (voice)

Being Julia

70

as Dolly de Vries

Ladies in Lavender

65

as Dorcas

Modigliani

42

as Gertrude Stein

The Phoenix and the Carpet

as Cook

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

69

as Peg Sellers

Dickens

TV show · as Catherine Dickens

Alone

46

as Caseworker

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

74

as Pomona Sprout

Cats & Dogs

49

as Sophie the Castle Maid

House!

41

as Auntie Beth

1990s

43 titles · average score 66

Family Guy

64

TV show · as Right Eyeball (voice)

Supply and Demand

TV show · as CS Edna Colley

The First Snow of Winter

69

as Sean McDuck (voice)

Different for Girls

59

as Pamela

James and the Giant Peach

75

as Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)

Romeo + Juliet

68

as Nurse

Babe

79

as Fly (voice)

Immortal Beloved

66

as Nanette Streicherová

Demonella

as Mother

Rugrats

76

TV show · as Shirley Finster (voice)

Orpheus Descending

56

as Vee Talbot

The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

83

as Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter

1980s

30 titles · average score 64

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

76

as Queen Victoria

Big Muzzy

80

TV show · as The Queen (voice)

A Little Princess

80

TV show · as Miss Amelia Minchin

Little Shop of Horrors

80

as Dental Nurse

The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors

as Miss N. Shortt

The Good Father

72

as Jane Powell

Screen Two

68

TV show · as Nellie

Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti

as Narrator (voice)

Blackadder

80

TV show · as Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain / Lady Whiteadder

A Kick Up the Eighties

TV show

Take a Letter, Mr Jones

TV show · as Maria

Reds

79

as Woman with Notebook (uncredited)

1970s

17 titles · average score 63

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Mary Burge

Monkey

82

TV show · as Demon (voice) / Narator

The Thin End of the Wedge

as Veronica

Confessions from a Holiday Camp

35

as Blackbird (voice) (uncredited)

The Lifeswappers

as Miriam/Miss Babberton

The Battle of Billy's Pond

as Tour Guide

Kizzy

TV show · as Mrs Doe

as Voice

The Girls of Slender Means

TV show · as Jane Wright

Angels

TV show

Fall of Eagles

75

TV show · as Anna Vyrubova

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Veronica

1960s

8 titles · average score 72

A Nice Girl Like Me

as Pensione

as Kathie

Omnibus

72

TV show

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Kathie

Boy Meets Girl

TV show · as Maria

At the Eleventh Hour

TV show

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Voice

Theatre 625

TV show · as Rita