Miriam Margolyes

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 18, 1941 (84 years old)

Miriam Margolyes

Known For

A Friend of Dorothy
Movie 2025

A Friend of Dorothy

A poignant short film that delves into the unexpected bond between Dorothy, an elderly woman living alone, and JJ, her young neighbor. When JJ’s football accidentally lands in Dorothy’s garden, a gentle friendship begins to bloom. As their connection deepens, the film tenderly explores themes of loneliness, intergenerational connection, and queer identity.

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
1h 43m
Movie 2025

Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness

A star-studded documentary revealing the private man behind one of Britain’s greatest comic geniuses, using home movies and extracts from notebooks that he wanted to be burnt after his death.

Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand
0h 59m
TV Show 2025

Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand

Determined to seize the day, National Treasure Miriam Margolyes leaps across the ditch and dives headfirst into a new country, on a fresh journey full of surprising contradictions, new challenges, unexpected lessons and revealing stories.

Badjelly
TV Show 2025

Badjelly

A fresh reimagining of Spike Milligan's Badjelly the Witch, the classic tale of a lost cow, a mysterious forest and a sinister sorceress. Featuring the voices of Miriam Margolyes, Rhys Darby & Rose Matafeo.

Alec Guinness: A Class Act
1h 30m
Movie 2024

Alec Guinness: A Class Act

The story of one of Britain's most celebrated actors of the 20th century, told by those who knew and admired him.

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
3h 1m
Movie 2024

The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved

Produced over four years with full access from Ken’s widow Lady Dodd, the film takes an in-depth look into Doddy’s private world, exploring the many secrets of his comic talent, revealing never-before-seen home-videos, stage performances and extracts from some of the thousands of Ken’s diary notebooks which he’d asked his wife to burn after his death. Wrestling with her conscience for quite some time, Lady Dodd, finally agrees with entertainment historians, museum curators and many of Ken’s admirers like Stephen K Amos, Harry Hill, Shaparak Khorsandi, Lee Mack, Paul O’Grady, Johnny Vegas, and Sir Ian McKellen to preserve Doddy’s notebooks for posterity. These stars explore their passion and memories of Ken in this candid, insightful film which takes you backstage behind the red curtain to reveal a far more intriguing man than the public or even his wife ever realised.

Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
0h 58m
TV Show 2024

Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian

Miriam Margolyes infiltrates and sheds light on a unique Australian community. Some are struggling or facing a bleak future, others are prospering, all say something about where we are heading as a nation.

How To Make It In Comedy
0h 48m
Movie 2024

How To Make It In Comedy

Told by the stars who first found fame at the Edinburgh Fringe, this the inside story of what it takes to make a name there, from those who enjoyed overnight success to those who slogged for years to make it.

Mog's Christmas
0h 23m
Movie 2023

Mog's Christmas

Mog feels a little ignored during the Thomas family's Christmas preparations. When she spots the huge Christmas tree, she freaks out and climbs to the roof, where she refuses to move no matter how hard the family tries.

Next to You
1h 55m
Movie 2023

Next to You

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 accused of capitalising on public anxiety around Covid-19, which makes the shocking situation that reunites the characters significantly more extreme. The story centres on Ksenija (newcomer Mina Nikolic), a driven young woman striving to move from tabloid hack to a career journalist in a world of click-bait headlines and showbiz scandals cooked up to feed the masses. Ksenija's personal and professional journey is hampered when Vera tests positive for Coronavirus and Ksenija must question how far she will bend to survive in a climate where political pressure is increasingly overt and can be said to capitalise on fear during the pandemic.

Biography

Miriam Margoyles OBE (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).

Acting

2025
A Friend of Dorothy
2025
Ken Dodd: A Legacy of Happiness
2025
Miriam Margolyes in New Zealand
2025
Badjelly
2024
Alec Guinness: A Class Act
2024
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved
2024
Miriam Margolyes Impossibly Australian
2024
How To Make It In Comedy
2023
Mog's Christmas
2023
Next to You
2023
Blackadder: A Cunning Story
2023
My Happy Ending
2023
Lady Gregory: Ireland's First Social Influencer
2022
Miriam's Dickensian Christmas
2022
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count
2022
The Fringe, Fame and Me
2022
The Marvellous Maggie Smith: A Celebration
2022
Miriam Margolyes: Australia Unmasked
2022
Judi Dench: Our National Treasure
2022
imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs
2021
Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland
2021
H Is for Happiness
2021
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Queen Victoria: Love, Lust And Leadership
2020
Wings
2020
Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian
2020
Miriam's Big Fat Adventure
2020
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
2020
The Last Artifact
2019
Comedy National Treasures: Stanley Baxter
2019
Miriam's Dead Good Adventure
2018
Postcards from the 48%
2018
Early Man
2018
Miriam’s Big American Adventure
2017
Harry Potter: A History Of Magic
2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas
2017
The Little Vampire 3D
2017
Bucket
2016
The Real Marigold on Tour
2016
Roald Dahl's Most Marvellous Book
2015
The Importance of Being Miriam
2015
Spirit-ED
2015
Mother
2011
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
2010
Los cuentos de Tinga Tinga
2006
Happy Feet
2005
Dickens in America
2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Dickens
1998
Vanity Fair
1998
Supply and Demand
1997
The Phoenix and the Carpet
1996
Romeo + Juliet
1994
Moonacre
1992
Frannie's Turn
1987
A Little Princess
1986
Muzzy in Gondoland
1985
Morons from Outer Space

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