Miriam Margolyes

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Miriam Margolyes OBE
Margolyes in 2008
Born	(1941-05-18) 18 May 1941 Oxford, England
Citizenship	United Kingdom Australia
Education	Oxford High School
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Occupations	Actress comedian narrator author
Years active	1963–present
Political party	Labour
Partner	Heather Sutherland (1968–present)
Website	miriammargolyes.com

Miriam Margolyes (/ˈmɑːrɡəliːz/ MAR-gə-leez; born 18 May 1941) is a British and Australian actress. Known for her work as a character actor across film, television, and stage, she received the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs. Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993), and achieved international prominence with her portrayal of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.

After starting her career in theatre, Margolyes made the transition to film with a small part in the British comedy A Nice Girl Like Me (1969). Subsequent credits include Yentl (1983), Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Little Dorrit (1988), I Love You to Death (1990), Immortal Beloved (1994), Different for Girls, Romeo + Juliet (both 1996), Magnolia, End of Days (both 1999), Being Julia, and Ladies in Lavender (both 2004). She voiced roles in Babe (1995), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Mulan (1998), Happy Feet (2006), Flushed Away (2006), and Early Man (2018).

Margolyes appeared in the television films Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987), Orpheus Descending (1990), Stalin (1992), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), and The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). Her other credits include Blackadder (1983–1988), Vanity Fair, Supply & Demand (both 1998), and Doctor Who (2023), as well as the recurring roles of Prudence Stanley in the Australian drama series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), and Sister Mildred in the BBC1 drama series Call the Midwife (2018–2021).

On stage, Margolyes toured her one-woman show, Dickens' Women, between 1989 and 2012; starred as Sue Mengers in the Australian premiere of I'll Eat You Last (2014); and originated the role of Madame Morrible in Wicked (West End, 2006; Broadway, 2008). Outside acting, she has fronted various travelogue series and written two memoirs: This Much is True (2021) and Oh Miriam! (2023).

Early life and education

Margolyes was born in Oxford on 18 May 1941 into a Jewish family. She was the only child of Joseph Margolyes (1899–1995), a Scottish physician and general practitioner from the Gorbals area of Glasgow, and property-developer Ruth (née Sandeman; 1905–1974), daughter of a second-hand furniture dealer and auctioneer at Kirkdale, Liverpool, who later relocated to London. The maternal family surname changed from Sandeman to Walters before Margolyes' birth. Her maternal great-grandfather, Symeon Sandmann, was born in the Polish town of Margonin, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia, which Margolyes visited in 2013. Her paternal grandfather Philip Margolyes was born in the small Belarusian shtetl of Amdur, which at the time was in Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire.

Margolyes attended Oxford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge. There, in her 20s, she began acting and appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights. She represented Newnham College in the first series of University Challenge, where she may have been one of the first people to say "fuck" on British television; she claims to have used the word in frustration on the show in 1963. The word was "bleeped out" for transmision.

Career

Margolyes reading Oliver Twist in 2006

With her versatile voice, Margolyes first gained recognition for her work as a voice artist. In the 1970s, she recorded a soft-porn audio called Sexy Sonia: Leaves from my Schoolgirl Notebook. In 1972 she played alongside Tony Robinson in the educational TV show Sam on Boffs' Island. She performed most of the supporting female characters in the dubbed Japanese action TV series Monkey. She also worked with the theatre company Gay Sweatshop and provided voiceovers in the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (credited as Mirium Margolyes).

In 1974, she appeared with Kenneth Williams and Ted Ray in the BBC Radio 2 comedy series The Betty Witherspoon Show.

Margolyes's first major role in a film was as Elephant Ethel in Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977). In the 1980s, she made appearances in Blackadder opposite Rowan Atkinson: these roles include the Spanish Infanta in The Black Adder, Lady Whiteadder in Blackadder II and Queen Victoria in Blackadder's Christmas Carol. In 1986, she played a major supporting role in the BBC drama The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. She won the 1989 LA Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Flora Finching in the film Little Dorrit (1988). On American television, she headlined the short-lived 1992 CBS sitcom Frannie's Turn. In 1994, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence (1993).

In 1989, Margolyes co-wrote and performed a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, in which she played 23 characters from Dickens' novels. In 2005 Margolyes hosted a ten-part BBC Four documentary, Dickens in America, which retraced Dickens's 1842 journey across the United States of America.

Margolyes played Aunt Sponge and voiced the Glow-Worm in James and the Giant Peach (1996). She played the Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996). She voiced the rabbit character in the animated commercials for Cadbury's Caramel bars and provided the voice of Fly the dog in the Australian-American family film Babe (1995).

She played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). In a 2011 interview on The Graham Norton Show, in regard to her Potter costars, Margolyes said that she got on well with Maggie Smith, but rather bluntly admitted that she "didn't like the one that died", referring to Richard Harris.

In 2004, Margolyes played the role of Peg Sellers, the mother of Peter Sellers, in the Golden Globe winning film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

Margolyes was one of the original cast of the London production of the musical Wicked opposite Idina Menzel in 2006, playing Madame Morrible, a role she played again on Broadway in 2008.

In 2009, she appeared in a new production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett at the Duchess Theatre in the West End.

Margolyes voiced the role of Mrs. Plithiver, a blind snake, in the 3D-animated-epic film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010).

In 2011, Margolyes recorded a narrative for the album The Devil's Brides by klezmer musician-ethnographer Yale Strom.

Margolyes played recurring character Prudence Stanley in the Australian-based TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries from 2012 to 2015.

In 2014, she voiced Nana in the Disney Junior animated series Nina Needs to Go!

In January 2016, Margolyes appeared in The Real Marigold Hotel, a travel documentary in which a group of eight celebrities travelled to India to see whether retirement would be more rewarding there than in the UK. The series was reprised for two Christmas Specials The Real Marigold On Tour, from Florida and Kyoto. She narrated the 2016 ITV documentary about Lady Colin Campbell entitled Lady C and the Castle.

In December 2017, Margolyes appeared in the second season of The Real Marigold On Tour to Chengdu and Havana. She appeared in the first episode of the third series, in which she travelled to St Petersburg with Bobby George, Sheila Ferguson and Stanley Johnson.

In January 2018, Margolyes hosted a three-part series for the BBC titled Miriam's Big American Adventure, highlighting the citizens of the United States and the issues facing the country. She voiced Queen Oofeefa in the film Early Man. Since 2018, Margolyes has portrayed Mother Mildred in the BBC One drama, Call The Midwife.

She played Miss Shepherd in a 2019 production of The Lady in the Van for the Melbourne Theatre Company in Melbourne in Australia.

In October 2021, she played Lillian opposite Helen Monks in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Charlotte and Lillian, where she introduced her autobiography This Much Is True. On 5 November she appeared on BBC One's The Graham Norton Show, where she discussed the book, explaining that it was written only because she "was paid an enormous amount of money". On 16 September the book was published by Hachette Books.

In April 2022, Margolyes was the subject of the BBC documentary Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs in the Imagine... series, where she was interviewed by Alan Yentob.

She appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in February 2023. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "Charles Dickens and all his works". In November 2023 Margolyes appeared as the voice of The Meep in "The Star Beast", the first of three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials.

Personal life

Margolyes spent many years living for long periods in Australia, and became an Australian citizen on Australia Day 2013, while retaining her British citizenship.

She is a lesbian, and referred to herself as a "dyke" live on national television and in front of Australian prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013. Since 1968, she has been in a relationship with Heather Sutherland, an Australian retired professor of Indonesian studies. As of 2012 they were dividing their time between homes in London and Kent in England, Robertson, New South Wales in Australia, and Montisi in Italy. In November 2023, Margolyes revealed on The Graham Norton Show that she and Sutherland had never lived together, but she wanted to do so as they were now both old and did not have much time left. She had been living in London and Sutherland in Amsterdam for a while.

Charities

Margolyes is a patron of My Death My Decision, an organisation in the UK which seeks a more compassionate approach to dying, including the legal right to a medically assisted death, if that is a person's persistent wish.

Margolyes is a supporter of Sense (the National Deafblind and Rubella Association) and was the host at the first Sense Creative Writing Awards, held at the Charles Dickens Museum in London in December 2006, where she read a number of works written by talented deafblind people.

She is also a campaigner for the respite care charity Crossroads.

Political views

Margolyes' political activism started at university. "I came from a very middle-class Jewish background, always Tory-voting", she later said. However, in the 1970s, she joined the Workers Revolutionary Party with other actors and Equity members such as Vanessa Redgrave, Frances de la Tour, and Tom Kempinski.

Margolyes is a member of the Labour Party and is registered to vote in Vauxhall. In August 2015, she was a signatory to a letter criticising The Jewish Chronicle's reporting of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's alleged associations with antisemites. In November 2019, she endorsed the Labour Party in the UK general election because of their policies on the National Health Service. Later in the month, along with other public figures, she signed a letter supporting Corbyn and describing him as a "beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia, and racism in much of the democratic world".

Margolyes was very critical of the British Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. She considered it "a public scandal" and "a disgrace". With the Prime Minister hospitalised suffering from COVID-19, Margolyes said "I had difficulty not wanting Boris Johnson to die."

In a 2022 interview with Radio Times, Margolyes came to the defence of J. K. Rowling, commenting that "There is a spectrum and people can be anywhere along that. There isn't one answer to all these trans questions". In November 2023, Margolyes said during another appearance on The Graham Norton Show that her position had changed after a discussion with Zoe Terakes, a trans Australian actor, and that she no longer believed that grammar was paramount over making someone happy by using their preferred pronouns.

On 15 October 2022, after being interviewed by Justin Webb about the recently deceased Robbie Coltrane on BBC Radio 4's Today, she commented to the presenters that she had never expected to be in a seat that had just been vacated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt. She said, live on air, "When I saw him there I just said, 'You've got a hell of a job, the best of luck', and what I really wanted to say was 'Fuck you, you bastard!'"

She is a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Margolyes said, "What I want to try to do is to get Jewish people to understand what's really going on, and they don't want to hear it. If you speak to most Jews and say, 'Can Israel ever be in the wrong?' they say, 'No. Our duty as Jews is to support Israel whatever happens.' And I don't believe that. It is our duty as human beings to report the truth as we see it."

On 6 April 2024, a video by Margolyes was published by The Jewish Council of Australia criticising the Israeli government on its ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip and calling on Jews to "shout, beg, scream" for a ceasefire. In her 2.5 minute video she said:

... I have never been so ashamed of Israel as I am at this moment. To me, it seems as if Hitler has won. He's changed us Jews from being compassionate and caring and do unto others as you would have them do unto you into this vicious genocidal nationalist nation, pursuing and killing women and children. Of course, I condemn the Hamas action, of course I do. But what we are doing, Jewish people over in Israel, is shocking, embarrassing and wicked and I cannot understand why all Jewish people, particularly members of synagogues, do not want immediately to stop what is going on. And in the name of humanity, I call upon all Jews to shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire. ...

Controversies

Margolyes has been accused on several occasions of making racist comments or jokes. During a 2012 appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Margolyes said to will.i.am "I'm just fascinated by you, because, unfortunately, I don't know many black people in show business”, and went on to state that it was surprising that a rapper would be philanthropic. In 2016, Margolyes was accused of making a racist joke which left a black man reportedly "humiliated" at the London Film Convention.

During a 2022 appearance on This Morning, Margolyes responded to one caller to "lose weight", telling another "not to mix with other cripples".

In 2023, Margolyes discussed her negative experience filming Little Shop of Horrors with Steve Martin, something which Martin has publicly disputed.

In 2024, Margolyes enraged adult Harry Potter fans by stating, "I worry about Harry Potter fans because they should be over that by now. It was 25 years ago, and it’s for children." Harry Potter fans responded on X (formerly Twitter), one saying "Nobody has a right to try and shame people into not enjoying something they harmlessly enjoy."

In popular culture

Author and comedian David Walliams says he used Margolyes as a model for the title character in his children's book Awful Auntie after an argument with her during a stage production, though he stressed that he has nothing against her and is a fan of her work.

Filmography

Margolyes shortly after being presented with her Australian citizenship certificate by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, 2013

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1969	A Nice Girl Like Me	Pensione 'Mama'
1974	On the Game	Narrator	Uncredited
1975	Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Dorothy Wordsworth
1977	Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers	Elephant Ethel
	Confessions from a Holiday Camp	Blackbird	Uncredited Voice Role
	The Battle of Billy's Pond	Tour Guide
1978	On a Paving Stone Mounted	Performer
1980	The Apple	Landlady
	The Awakening	Dr Kadira
1981	Reds	Woman writing in notebook	Uncredited role
1982	Crystal Gazing	Newsreader
1983	Yentl	Sarah
	Scrubbers	Jones
1984	Electric Dreams	Ticket Girl
1985	The Good Father	Jane Powell
	Morons from Outer Space	Doctor Wallace
1986	Little Shop of Horrors	Dental Nurse
1987	Body Contact	Mrs. Zulu
1988	Little Dorrit	Flora Finching
1990	The Fool	Mrs. Bowring
	Pacific Heights	Realtor
	I Love You to Death	Mrs. Boca
1991	The Butcher's Wife	Gina
	Dead Again	Lady	Uncredited role
1992	As You Like It	Audrey
1993	The Age of Innocence	Mrs. Mingott
	Ed and His Dead Mother	Mabel Chilton
1994	Immortal Beloved	Nanette Streicherová
1995	Balto	Grandma Rosy
	Babe	Fly the Female Sheepdog	Voice role
1996	Different for Girls	Pamela
	Romeo + Juliet	The Nurse
	James and the Giant Peach	Aunt Sponge/Glowworm	Voice role
1998	Mulan	The Matchmaker
	Babe: Pig in the City	Fly the Female Sheepdog	Voice role; cameo
	The First Snow of Winter	Sean the duck	Voice role
	Left Luggage	Mrs. Goldman
	Candy	Gisella
1999	Magnolia	Faye Barringer	Uncredited role
	End of Days	Mabel
	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	Signora Caldoni
	Sunshine	Rose Sonnenschein
2000	House!	Beth
2001	Not Afraid, Not Afraid	Performer
	Cats & Dogs	Sophie the Castle Maid
2002	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Professor Pomona Sprout
	Plots with a View	Thelma & Selma
	Alone	Caseworker
2004	Being Julia	Dolly de Vries
	Ladies in Lavender	Dorcas
	Modigliani	Gertrude Stein
	End of the Line	Bag Lady	Short Film
	Chasing Liberty	Maria
2006	Happy Feet	Mrs. Astrakhan	Voice role
	Flushed Away	Rita's Grandma
2007	The Dukes	Aunt Vee
2008	How To Lose Friends and Alienate People	Mrs. Kowalski
2009	A Closed Book	Mrs. Kilbride
2010	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Mrs. Plithiver	Voice role
2011	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2	Professor Pomona Sprout
2012	Sir Billi	Baroness Chantal McToff	Voice role
	The Wedding Video	Patricia
	The Guilt Trip	Anita
2014	The Legend of Longwood	Lady Thyrza
	Maya the Bee	The Queen	Voice role
2017	The Little Vampire 3D	Wulftrud
	The Man Who Invented Christmas	Mrs. Fisk
2018	Early Man	Queen Oofeefa	Voice role
2019	H Is for Happiness	Miss Bamford
2020	Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears	Prudence Stanley
2023	My Happy Ending	Judy
	Pored tebe	Vera

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	Laramie	Nora Walker	Episode: "No Place to Run"
	Z-Cars	Elsie Engelfield	Episode: "The Listeners"
	Ghost Squad	Samantha Ryder-Ross	Episode: "Gertrude"
	The Untouchables	Miss Klara	Episode: "The Charlie Argos Story"
	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends	Mrs. Jenny Robinson	Voice; Episodes: "Resign Your Fate to a 52nd Staet or Moosylvania Mania!" "The Half Shot Moose or Testify My Eye"
	Going My Way	Trudy Cooper	Episode: "Hear No Evil"
	Premiere - Presented by Fred Astaire	Junie Harper	Episode 28, Season 2: "Million Dollar Hospital"
	Wagon Train	Beth Barber	Episode: "The Jim Whitlow Story"
	Vacation Playhouse	Sybil Dorsett	Episode: "The Big Brain"
	The Lieutenant	Mrs. Fanny	Episode: "The Proud and the Angry"
	Route 66	Sally Burton	Episode: "Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea"
	East Side/West Side	Cristine Morgan	Episode: "Who Do You Kill?"
1964	Suspense Theater	Eula Purcell	Episode: "The Deep End"
	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Lenore Karadyne	Episode: "Runaway"
	The Greatest Show on Earth	Miss Brady	Episode: "Big Man from Nairobi"
	Death Valley Days	Mrs. Newswoman	Episode: "Hastings Cut-off"
	The Outer Limits	Bridget Leander	Episode: "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"
	Burke's Law	Aunt Clara	Episode: "Who Killed Carrie Cornell?"
	Karen	Kitty Anderson	Episode: "Karen's Simplicity Complex"
	The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo	Claire Reid	Voice; Episodes: "William Tell" "The Three Musketeers" "Robin Hood"
1964-1967	Underdog	Mrs. Sour	Voice; 62 episodes
1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	The Grandmother	Episode: "The Project Strigas Affair"
	Combat!	Mrs. Clark	Episode: "A Gift of Hope"
1965	For the People	Eva Bridges	13 episodes
	Peyton Place	The Queen	Episode: 1/94
1965–1969	The Virginian	Lou	2 episodes
1965	Theatre 625	Rita	Episode: "Enter Solly Gold"
	Twelve O'Clock High	Queen Charlotte	Episode: "I Am the Enemy"
	The Fugitive	Baroness von Soil	Episode "Stranger in the Mirror"
1966	Gidget	Agnes Morrison	Episode: "Ego-a-Go-Go"
	Bewitched	Elizabeth Grace	Episode: "Man's Best Friend"
	Dr. Kildare	May Beckett	4 episodes
	Redcap	Judith Deane	Episode: "Crime Passionel"
1966-1969	Star Trek: The Original Series	Sally	80 episodes
1966-1967	The Three Musketeers	Bunty	Miniseries
1967	The Big Valley	Wanda Anderson	Episode: "Boy Into Man"
	That Girl	Princess Melina	Episode: "Paper Hats and Everything"
1967–1969	The Avengers	Ann Walters	2 episodes
1967	The Further Adventures of the Musketeers	Bunty	Miniseries
	Crossroads	Mrs. Perkins	3 episodes
	ITV Play of the Week	Heidi	Episode: "The English Climate"
	Boy Meets Girl	Maria	Episode: "Flight of the Kingfisher"
	Sat'day While Sunday	Suzanne Davis	13 episodes
	ITV Playhouse	Virginia Lennart	Episode: "Children Playing"
	The Gamblers	Vickie Angel	Episode: "The Bridge"
	The Newcomers	Keechie	6 episodes
1968	The Troubleshooters	Anne Garner	Episode: "Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart"
	Cold Comfort Farm	Wandra Drake	3 episodes
	Jackanory	Storyteller	5 episodes
	Judd, for the Defense	Grandma Bud	Episode: "Weep the Hunter Home"
	Minding the Shop	Adelle Colby	Television film
	Dixon of Dock Green	Anna	Episode: "An Ordinary Man"
1968–1969	Felony Squad	Tina Hoffman	3 episodes
1969	N.Y.P.D.	Mrs. Edna Mother	2 episodes
	Thirty-Minute Theatre	Voice	Episode: "The Boat to Addis Ababa"
	Barrister at Law	Betty Benson	Television film
	ITV Playhouse	Kathie	Episode: "The Ha Ha"
	Land of the Giants	Jane Anderson	Episode: "Six Hours to Live"
	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Sandra Keene	Episode: "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo"
1969–1970	The Wednesday Play	Emmy Mae	2 episodes
1970–1974	Ironside	Jenny Fox	4 episodes
1970	Medical Center	Lydia Merrick	Episode: "The Combatants"
	ITV Sunday Night Theatre	Louise Demery	Episode: "The Master and the Mask"
	Crime of Passion	Rose Maxon	Episode: "Pierre"
	Manhunt	Anton	3 episodes
	Doomwatch	Joyce Whitman	Episode: "Hear No Evil"
	Monty Python's Flying Circus	Captain Gloria Neal	Episode: "Face the Press"
	Whom God Hath Joined	Polly Mims	Television film
	When We Dead Awaken	Gladys Snavely	Television film
1971	The Expert	Amy Waters	Episode: "A Clear and Easy Duty"
	Here Comes Peter Cottontail	Kim Butler	Voice; Television film
	Stage 2	Evelyn Harris	Episode: "She Stoops to Conquer"
	Owen, M.D.	Phyllis Dunning	2 episodes
	Shirley's World	Donna Whittaker	Episode: "Knightmare"
1972	A Place in the Sun	Maid	Episode: "Achilles Heel"
	The Venturers	Dorothy Carter	Television film
1972–1973	Words and Pictures	Various Voices	20 episodes
1972	Scott On...		Episode: "Language"
	Jackanory Playhouse	The Witch	Episode: "The Wily Wizard and the Wicked Witch"
1972–1973	Arthur of the Britons	Hilda Wesley	7 episodes
1973	Public Eye	Margaret Whitlow	Episode: "Egg and Cress Sandwiches"
	Justice	Eva Laurelton	Episode: "The Whole Truth?"
	Gunsmoke	Aunt Granny	Episode: "This Golden Land"
	Love Story	Susan Mason	Episode: "Reflections"
	A Touch of Grace	Lex	Episode: "The Accident"
	ITV Sunday Night Theatre	Kate Bartok	Episode: "Lorna and Ted"
	Hadleigh	Maria Haviland	Episode: "The Last Rent Dinner"
1973-1974	Star Trek: The Animated Series	Sally	Voice; 22 episodes
1973	Doctor in Charge	Doris	Episode: "Men without Women"
	Ego Hugo	Sally Cantrell	Television film
	BBC Play of the Month	Julie Parsons	Episode: "The Recruiting Officer"
1974	NBC Children's Theater	Himself	Episode: "Super Plastic Elastic Goggles"
	Childhood	Mademoiselle	Episode: "Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies"
	Boy Dominic	Sister Jacob	Miniseries
	Fall of Eagles	Anna Vyrubova	Episode: "Tell the King the Sky is Falling"
	Sutherland's Law	Anita	Episode: "The Evidence"
	The Cay	Sally Robinson	Television film
	World of Laughter	Various parts	6 episodes
1975	The Sweeney	Rachel Lambert	Episode: "Ringer"
	That's My Mama	Player Queen	Episode: "The Hero"
	Notorious Woman	Kate Bürden	Miniseries
	Churchill's People	Ellen Harper Jackson	Episode: "The Wallace"
	The Master of Ballantre	Henry Durie	6 episodes
	The Girls of Slender Means	Jane Wright	3 episodes
	Shades of Greene	Wilma Klein	Episode: "The Blue Film"
	The UFO Incident	Marcia Peach	Television film
	Wayne and Shuster	Grandma Anderson	Episode: "1975 Show #2"
1975–1976	Space: 1999	Lynne Evers	2 episodes
1976	Great Performances	L.A. Joan	Episode: "The Collection"
	The Day After Tomorrow	Jean Harris	Television film
	Christmas Box	Mrs. Kaplan
	Angels	June Morris	2 episodes
	Kizzy	Mrs. Doe
	The Glittering Prizes	Olive Wise	TV serial
	Plays for Britain	Miriam / Miss Babberton	Episode: "The Lifeswappers"
	Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd	Laura	Television film
	Thriller	Mrs. Antonia	Episode: "A Midsummer Nightmare"
	I, Claudius	Aunt Queen Wolf	5 episodes
1976, 1982	Crown Court	Marilyn Munro; Mrs. King	2 episodes
1976	The Water Margin	Voice	English dub of Japanese series
	Play from 'A'	Sara Aldridge	Episode: "Initiative Test"
	All in the Family	Nurse Cooder	Episode: "Mike and Gloria's Will"
1977	Roots	Barby	Episode: "Part XII"
	Rooms	Janice Abbott	6 episodes
	Survivors	WREN	Episode: "Law of the Jungle"
	Jesus of Nazareth	Chris Parker	Episode: "Part 1"
	Spasms	Rose Finn	Television film
	Target	Sarah Travis	Episode: "Crave Up"
	Play for Today	Veronica	Episode: "The Thin Edge of the Wedge"
1978	Blake's 7	Gwendolen	Episode: "Cygnus Alpha"
	She Fell Among Thieves	Mrs. Grover Cleveland	Television film
	The Devil's Crown	Jenny	7 episodes
	The Law Centre	Mrs. Lossos	Episode: "Winning Friends, Losing Lovers"
	Out	Rosie	3 episodes
	Monkey	Voice	English dub of Japanese series Saiyûki 52 episodes
	Witch's Night Out	Catherine Reid	Voice; Television film
1979	Bothwell	Doris Mae Winters	Television film
	Please Don't Eat The Planet	Ma Spademinder	Voice; Television film
1980	Look Back in Anger	Mildred Lammoreaux	Television film
	Thérèse Raquin	Aurora	3 episodes
	Easter Fever	Jeri Brown	Voice; Television film
	Tales of the Unexpected	Mary Burge	Episode: "Fat Chance"
	BBC2 Playhouse	Chana Vilnofsky	Episode: "Dalhousie's Luck"
	Hammer House of Horror	Sheila	Episode: "The Silent Scream"
	The Lost Tribe	Queenie	TV serial
	You've Come a Long Way, Katie	Chris Dougherty	3 episodes
1981	The Little World of Don Camillo	Ella	13 episodes
	The Steve Allen Comedy Hour	Mary Riley	Episode: "May 29, 1981"
	The House on the Hill	Rachel Bryant	Episode: "Man of Straw"
	Take a Letter, Mr. Jones	Maria	6 episodes
	A Kick Up the Eighties	Various roles	3 episodes
	The History Man	Melissa Tordoroff	3 episodes
1982	McClain's Law	Mrs. Aunt Frany	Episode: "Takeover"
	The Jeffersons	Miss Adie	Episode: "Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner"
	Minder	Claire	Episode: "In"
	Seven Brides for Seven Brothers	Grammy	Episode: "The Man in the White Hat"
	The Shadow Riders	Mrs. Sophie	Television film
	Quincy, M.E.	Officer Girl	Episode: "Sleeping Dogs"
	Cagney & Lacey	Claire Judge	Episode: "Hot Line"
	T. J. Hooker	Mrs. Lina	Episode: "A Cry for Help"
	Games Mother Never Taught You	Mrs. Lady Robison	Television film
	The Executioner's Song	Ginnie Morell
1983	King Lear	Jenny Bellows	Television film
	Jemima Shore Investigates	Marti Gaines	1 episode
	The Black Adder	Infanta Maria Escalosa of Spain	Episode: "The Queen of Spain's Beard"
	Gunfight at the Joe Kaye Corral	Cynthia	Television film
1984	The Master of Ballantrae	Ursula Mossbank
	Pope John Paul II	Mother Stella
	The Last Days of Pompeii	Lady Pamela More	Miniseries
	Freud	Baroness	TV serial
	Miami Vice	Stella	Episode: "Heart of Darkness"
	Scotland's Story	Hank Bradford	3 episodes
	The Cantor of St Thomas's	Terry Barkley	Television film
1985	V	Melina	Episode: "The Return"
	Merlin and the Sword	Pam	Television film
	Florence Nightingale	Miss Finch
	Honour, Profit and Pleasure	Elephant and Castle
	George Burns Comedy Week	Gwen James	Episode: "The Dynamite Girl"
	Oliver Twist	Mrs. Corney	TV serial
1986	Cathedral	Hayden	Voice; Television film
	Blackadder II	Lady Whiteadder	Episode: "Beer"
	The Fourth Floor	Carol Henderson	3 episodes
	The Secret Diaries of the Film Censors	Miss N. Shortt	Television film
	Muzzy in Gondoland	The Queen	Voice; 6 episodes
	Return to Treasure Island	Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard	10 episodes
	Shoot for the Sun	Officer Sue Perman	Television film
	The Life and Loves of a She-Devil	Nurse Hopkins	2 episodes
	Unnatural Causes	Brenda	Episode: "Home Cooking"
	Monte Carlo	Laura Burroughs	2 episodes
	A Little Princess	Miss Amelia	6 episodes
	Scotch and Wry	Various	Television film
	The Deliberate Death of a Polish Priest	Christine Carlson
1987	Omnibus	Daly	Episode: "George Grosz: Enemy of the State"
	ScreenPlay	Meg	Episode: "Road"
	Snorks	The Old Queen Woman	Voice; Episode: "Junior's Empire"
	My Family and Other Animals	Lady Ripon	Miniseries
	Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story	Elsa Maxwell	Television film
	The Finding	Poll
	Trying Times	Celia Sayers	Episode: "Get a Job"
	Rat in the Skull	Sally Tyler	Television film
1988	Ten Great Writers of the Modern World	Jane Brooks	Voice, episode: "Henrik Ibsen"
	Mr Majeika	Wilhelmina Worlock	2 episodes
	Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun	Vickie Adderly	Television film
	City Lights	Dr. Kennedy	Episode: "All in the Mind"
	War and Remembrance	Annabella Rock	Miniseries
	Blackadder's Christmas Carol	Queen Victoria	Television Special
	Pyramid	Grand Vizier Ankhaf	Voice; Television film
1989	Minder	Madame de Volanges	Episode: "The Last Video Show"
1989-1990	Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers	Mrs. Judge	Voice; Episodes: "Piratsy Under the Seas" "Risky Beesness" "Three Men and a Booby" "The Carpetsnaggers" "Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Pt. 1" "Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Pt. 2" "Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Pt. 3" "Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Pt. 4" "Rescue Rangers to the Rescue Pt. 5" "Ghost of a Chance" "An Elephant Never Suspects" "Fake Me to Your Leader" "Last Train to Cashville" "A Case of Stage Blight" "The Case of the Cola Cult" "Throw Mummy From the Train" "A Wolf in Cheap Clothing" "Robocat" "Does Pavlov Ring a Bell" "Prehysterical Pet" "A Creep in the Deep" "Normie's Science Project" "Weather or Not" "Rest Home Rangers" "A Lean on the Property" "A Chorus Crime" "They Shoot Dogs, Don't They"
1989	Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story	Mrs. Rajzman	Television film
	The Play on One	Laughter	Voice; Episodes: "Unexplained Laughter"
	Murder by Moonlight	Mary Hampton	Television film
	Muzzy in Gondoland	The Queen	Voice; 6 episodes
1990	Screen Two	Nellie	Episode: "Old Flames"
	Secret Weapon	Mrs. Rosie	Television film
	The Castle of Adventure	Mrs. Archer	8 episodes
	Perfect Scoundrels	Annette Ridgeway	Episode: "The Milk of Human Kindness"
	The Finding	Poll	Television film
	Matlock	Mrs. Gadget	Episode: "The Mother"
	Bagdad Cafe	Irma	Episode: "555-HELL"
	Orpheus Descending	Vee Talbot	Television film
	Bagdad Cafe	Mrs. Bird	Episode: "This Bird Has Flown"
1990-1993	Bobby's World	Mrs. Rapple	Voice; Episodes: "The Night of the Living Pumpkin" "The Hero"
1990	The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship	Mother / Mrs. Woodcutter	Voice; Television film
1991	Married... With Children	Isobel Scannell	Episode: "Look Who's Barking"
	Lovejoy	Mam	Episode: "The Black Virgin of Vladimir"
	Tonight at 8.30	Mrs. Wadhurst	2 episodes
	Morton & Hayes	Sylvia Grombach	Episode: "Daffy Dicks"
	Darkwing Duck	Amelia Glahn	Voice; Episode: "Raiders of the Lost Shark: Part 1 & 2"
	Prisoner of Honor	Baroness James	Television film
	Red Fox	Miss Mitchell	Television film
1992	Frannie's Turn	Frannie Escobar	6 episodes
	The Big Battalions	Claire von Morgan	5 episodes
	Stalin	Nadezhda Krupskaya	Television film
	A Different World	Mrs. Randall	Episode: "White Christmas"
	Inspector Morse	Mrs. Fink	Episode: "Deadly Slumber"
1993	The Comic Strip Presents...	Mother	Episode: "Demonella"
	Lady Chatterley	Sarah Walker	Episode: "Episode #1.4"
	The Hidden Room	Dr. Roxanne Keloid	Episode: "The First Battle"
	Batman: The Animated Series	Edith Butros	Voice; Episode: "Mudslide"
	The Addams Family	Gabby	Voice; Episode: "Sweetheart of a Brother"
	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Dixie	Voice; Episode: "Talkin' Trash"
1994	Roman City	Renee Lassiter	Voice; Television film
	Grushko	Mrs. Crump	3 episodes
	The Negotiator	Nancy Aglet	Television film
	Moonacre	Old Elspeth	6 episodes
	The Man Who Wouldn't Die	Jenny Wilcox	Television film
	MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis	Atticus
	Seasons of the Heart	Countess Gemini
	Aladdin	Sister Agatha	Voice; Episode: "Raiders of the Lost Shark"
	Tales from the Crypt	Mrs. Enright	Episode: "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime"
	Just William	Miss Polliter	Episode: "William's Busy Day"
1995	Cold Comfort Farm	Mrs. Beetle	Television film
	Johnny and the Dead	Alice Blackwell	Miniseries
	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Mrs. Toadette	Episode: "Get a Job"
	Kidnapped	Countess Else von Dietlof	Television film
1996	Bruno the Kid		Voice; Episode: "Give Pizza a Chance"
1997	The Place of Lions	Miss Cole	Television film
	Red Dwarf	Shelia	Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper"
	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Nellie	Voice; Episode: "Loyality"
	Seinfeld	Aunt	Episode: "The Yada Yada"
	The Outer Limits	Corinne Lawrence	Episode: "The Revelations of Becka Paulson"
	Lexx	Mrs. Bonnie Anderson	Episode: "Giga Shadow"
	The History of Tom Jones: a Foundling	Carole Blair	Miniseries
	The Phoenix and the Carpet	Cook	BBC TV serial
	The Magic School Bus	Liz Christie	Voice; Episode: "Gets Programmed"
	The IMAX Nutcracker	Sugar Plum	Short film
	Sooty & Co	Beth Morgan	Episode: "Fun in the Snow"
1998	Dennis the Menace	Livia	Episode: "Skull and Crossbones"
	Spin City	Elsa Robinson	Episode: "Single White Male"
1998, 2001	Rugrats	Shirley Finster	Voice; 3 episodes
1998–1999	Fantasy Island	Bonnie Lee	13 episodes
1998	I Am Weasel	Martha Stewart	Voice; Episode: "Driver's Sped"
	Supply & Demand	Chief Superintendent Edna Colley	TV serial
	The Angry Beavers	Mrs. Stein	Voice; Episode: "If You In-Sisters"
	Vanity Fair	Miss Crawley	TV serial
	The First Snow of Winter	Sean McDuck	Voice; UK version
1999	Adam's Family Tree	Lina Van Elyn	Episode: "A Cavalier Spirit"
	Oh Baby	Bejewelled Woman	Episode: "Discrimination"
	Can of Worms	Aggie	Voice; Television film
1999-2000	The Big Knights	Mrs. Dalgleish	Voice; 13 episodes
1999	The Greatest Store in the World	Ann Smiley	Television film
	The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything	Clementine Churchill
2000	The David Cassidy Story	Bernice
	St. Patrick: The Irish Legend	Annie Anderson
	MAD TV	Judge Morton	Episode: "24"
	Island of the Dead	Margo Stanton	Television film
	Nuremberg	Julie Gainbourg	2 episodes
	Marvin the Tap-Dancing Horse	Ticket Woman	Voice; Episode: "Eddy Learns to Dance"
	Dharma & Greg	Chloe	Episode: "Midwife Crisis"
	South Park	Caroline	Voice; Episode: "Pip"
	Sooty Heights	Charal	Episode: "You Must Be Joking"
2001	Magic Grandad	Grandmama	3 episodes
	Fun at the Funeral Parlour	Isobel Makepeace	Episode: "The Mountains of Doom"
	Princess of Thieves	Jenny Wren	Television film
	Frasier	Mrs. Heather	2 episodes Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
	Oswald	Edna	Voice; Episode: "Rollerskating"
	Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat	Daisy	Voice; Episode: "Sagwa's Swan Song"
2002	Firestarter: Rekindled	Mrs. Cary	2 episodes
	24	Margeaux Pyne	Voice; Episode: "8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m."
	Dickens	Catherine Dickens	3 episodes
	SpongeBob SquarePants	Eve Allen	Voice; Episode: "Party Pooper Pants"
	The Simpsons	Jennifer Rose	Voice; Episode: "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge"
2002-2009	The Fairly OddParents	Claire Freeman	Voice; Episodes: "The Boy Who Would Be Queen" "Information Stupor Highway" "Love Struck!" "Movie Magic" "Momnipresent"
2002	Night Visions	Cathleen O'Brien	Episode: "Patterns"
2002-2003	Dexter's Laboratory	Trixie Robinson	Voice; Episodes: "Beau Tie" "School Girl Crushed" "Babe Sitter"
2002	The Powerpuff Girls	Helen Buckman	Voice; Episode: "Power-Noia"
2003	Odd Job Jack	Grace Gibson	Voice; Episode: "Broke & Broker"
	Sonic X	Sally Loud	Voice; Episode: "Chaos Emerald Chaos"
	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Joanna Thomas	Voice; Episode: "Billy & Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween"
	Winter Solstice	Nain	Television film
2004	Las Vegas	René Contrecoeur	Episode: "New Orleans"
	The Legend of the Tamworth Two	Red Queen	Television film
	The Art of the Garden	Gertrude Jekyll	3 episodes
	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Peg Sellers	Television film, HBO
	Species III	Natasha Bethune	Television film
	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	The Girl	Voice; Episode: "The N-Men"
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Mrs. Price-Ridley	Episode: "The Murder at the Vicarage"
2005-2009	My Life as a Teenage Robot	Claire Anderson	Voice; Episodes: "Humiliation 101" "Dancing With My Shell" "Around The World in Eighty Pieces" "Killgore" "A Pain in My Sidekick" "Crash Pad Crash" "Victim of Fashion" "Mama Drama" "Toying with Jenny" "Weapons of Mass Distraction" "Stage Fright" "Girl of Steal" "Agent 00' Sheldon" "Ball and Chain" "Queen Bee"
2005	Jacob Two-Two	Iris Robinson	Voice; Episode: "Jacob Two Two and the Dangerous Debut"
	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	Ellen Ford	Voice; Episode: "Sight for Sore Eyes"
	Brandy & Mr. Whiskers	Lola Walker	Voice; Episode: "Trouble in Store"
	Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi	Natasha	Voice; Episode: "Visiting Hours"
	Camp Lazlo	Emily Kessner	Voice; Episodes: "Gone Fishin' (Sort of)" "The Weakest Link"
	Danny Phantom	Amy Robinson	Voice; Episode: "Pirate Radio"
2005–2011	Entourage	Linda Beech	11 episodes
2005	Danger Rangers	Mrs. MacKenzie	Voice; Episode: "Fires and Liars"
	Justice League Unlimited	Mrs. Goodwin	Voice; Episode: "Chaos at the Earth's Core"
	The Office	Michele de la Becque	Episode: "Sexual Harassment"
	Maya & Miguel	Peg Boggs	Voice; Episode: "Friends Forever?"
	Inconceivable	Malva	Episode: "Balls in Your Court"
2005-2007	Robotboy	Claire Robinson	Voice; Episodes: "Cleaning Day" "Constabot" "Kurt's Father" "Brother" "Roughing It" "Double Tommy" "Feline Frenzy" "Attack Of The Killer G-Men" "RoboGus and the G-Machine" "Clammadon Rising" "Automatommy" "Journey to the center of the Gus"
2005	Wallis & Edward	Bessie Merryman	Television film
2006	Monk	Gail Stanley	Episode: "Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show"
	The Zula Patrol	Zira	Voice; Episode: "Look to the Rainbow"
	The Buzz on Maggie	Emmy Mary	Voice; Episode: "Scout of Order"
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Baroness Helene Rafitte	Episode: "Proud Flesh"
	The Curse of King Tut's Tomb	Mrs. Collins	Television film
	Invader Zim	Emily Converse	Voice; Episode: "The Girl Who Cried Gnome"
	Deadwood	Mrs. Flint	9 episodes Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
	Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!	Mrs. Lady	Voice; Episode: "A Little Help From Your Friends"
2006-2009	Yin Yang Yo!	Aunt Field	Voice; Episodes: "Shopping Sprawl" "The Manotaur" "Dance Dance Devastation" "Game Over" "Yin Yang You"
2006	Mist: The Tale of a Sheepdog Puppy	Frau Sesemann	Television film
2006–2007	Heroes	Dr. Monica Anderson	10 episodes
2007	Lake Placid 2	Cloris Robinson	Television film
	American Dad!	Margaret Hilda Thatcher	Voice; Episode: "I Can't Stan You"
	Wayside	Claudia	Voice; Episode: "Age of Aquarium"
	Masters of Science Fiction	Irene Jennings	Episode: "Jerry Was a Man"
2007-2015	WordGirl	Aunt Julie	Voice; Episodes: "Coupon Madness" "When Life Gives You Potatoes..." "Slumber Party Pooper" "Line Lessons With Lady Redundant Woman" "Tiny Big" "The Birthday Girl's Monstrous Gift" "Hal the Haggler" "My Dad, My Teacher, My Dad, My Teacher" "The Power of Whamship" "Royally Framed" "WordGirl vs. Tobey vs. the Dentist"
2007	Between the Lions	Gran Woman	Episode: "The Problem With Chickens; An Egg Is Quiet"
	Species – The Awakening	Natasha Bethune	Television film
2007–2011	Doctors	Mrs. Driver	2 episodes
2007–2012	Metalocalypse	Mrs. Matthews	Voice, 37 episodes
2007	War and Peace	Lady Susan Creel	4 episodes
	The Emperor's New School	Joslyn Poe	Voice; Episode: "Mudka's Secret Recipe"
	My Friend Rabbit	The Queen Girl	Voice; Episode: "A Gift at Last"
2008	Kika & Bob	Duchess
	Jam & Jerusalem	Mrs. Midge	Season 2, Episode 6
	Kingdom	Henny	Episode 2.04
	Have I Got News for You	Marie Strickland	Episodes: "Episode #35.3" "Episode #36.10"
	Chowder	Liane Latour	Voice; Episode: "Brain Grub"
2008-2009	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack	Sophie	Voice; Episodes: "How the West was Fun" "Low Tidings"
2008-2010	The Mighty B!	Mrs. Hardy	Voice; Episodes: "Bat Mitzvah Crashers" "Super Secret Weakness" "Grumpy Old Bees"
2008	Paws & Tales: The Animated Series	Mrs. Julie	Voice; Episode: "Hullabaloo at Hunker Hill"
	The Wrong Door	Consuela Dunphy	2 episodes
	Martha Speaks	Joni Witherspoon	Voice; Episode: "Truman's Secret"
	Coco Chanel	Embassy Hostess	Television film
	Pinky Dinky Doo	Letty Lynton	Voice; Episode: "Burpzilla"
	Turbo Dogs	Elinor Edison	Voice; Episode: "Race for Treasure"
	The Royal	Vera Dulciman	Episode: "Pastures New"
2009	Jimmy Two-Shoes	Mrs. Dolores	Voice; Episode: "I've Totally Shredded My Cheese"
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Elizabeth Troughton	Episode: "Funkhouser's Crazy Sister"
	Back at the Barnyard	Connie Antonelli	Voice; Episode: "Everett's Treasure"
	The Sarah Jane Adventures	Leef Slitheen-Blathereen	Voice; 2 episodes
	Henry 8.0	Lady Annabel Butler
	Phineas and Ferb	Evaline Hobson	Voice; Episode: "Picture This"
	The Gruffalo	Mrs. Cat	Voice; Television film
2010	Tinga Tinga Tales	Giraffe and Squirrel	Voice; Recurring Role
	Little Princess	Christina Bailey	Episode: "I Want My Horace"
	Coming of Age	Doreen	Episode: "Doreen"
2010-2012	Team Umizoomi	Val Winters	Episodes: "Ready for Take Off" "Race Around Umi City" "The Ghost Family Costume Party" "Chicks in the City" "Umi Egg Hunt" "Buster the Lost Dog" "Cuckoo Bears" "DoorMouse in Space" "Doctor Bot"
2010–2011	The Legend of Dick and Dom	Melba Stokes	Episodes: "Beastly" "Home"
2010–2012	CSI: Miami	Nana Burns	3 episodes
2010–2013	The Mentalist	Bret Stiles	5 episodes
2010	Pearlie	Violet Girl	Voice; Episode: "Rose Petal Pearlie"
	Willa's Wild Life	Mary Jane Robinson	Voice; Episode: "Walk a Mile in Alligator Shoes"
	Lake Placid 3	Cloris Robinson	Television film
2010–2019	Peppa Pig	Ruth Popper	Voice; Recurring role
2010-2013	T.U.F.F. Puppy	Sally Anderson	Voice; Episodes: "Doom-mates" "Toast of T.U.F.F." "Mutts and Bolts" "Rat Trap" "Subliminal Criminal" "Acting T.U.F.F." "'Til Doom Do Us Part"
2010–2012	Hero Factory	Floria Montiel	Voice; 4 episodes
2010	Fish Hooks	Madame Alice	Voice; Episode: "Bea Becomes an Adult Fish"
	Shelldon	Showgirl	Voice; Episode: "Beware the Werefish!"
	Merlin	Grunhilda	Episode: "The Changeling"
2011-2013	Scaredy Squirrel	Amy Brooks	Voice; Episodes: "Children of the Acorn" "Talented Mr. Peacock" "Nutters Almanac" "Stash N' Hoarder" "Driving Miss Davey"
2011-2012	The Amazing World of Gumball	The Queen Cleo	Voice; Episodes: "The Third" "The Spoon" "The Secret" "The Wand" "The Microwave"
2011	Doc Martin	Shirley	Episode: "Born with a Shotgun"
	The Penguins of Madagascar	Monica Dale	Voice; Episode: "Time Out"
	Psych	Miss Roth	Episode: "Shawn Rescues Darth Vader"
	Holy Flying Circus	Bessie Wells	Television film
2011-2018	My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic	Jennifer Parker	Voice; Episodes: "Secret of My Excess" "Games Ponies Play" "The Cutie Map Pt. 1" "Castle Sweet Castle" "Stranger Than Fan Fiction" "To Where and Back Again Pt. 2" "School Daze Pt. 1" "Non-Compete Clause"
2011	The Gruffalo's Child	Mrs. Cat	Voice; Television film
	Merry Widows	Renee
2012	In Love With...	Mrs. Gamp	Episode: "In Love with Dickens"
2012–2015	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Prudence Elizabeth Stanley	12 episodes
2012	Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness	Queen Amy Rose	Voice, Episode: "Father Crime"
	The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange	Penny Alexander	Voice; Episode: "Sir Juice-A-Lot"
	The Philadelphia Experiment	Judy Stanley	Television film
	Wild Grinders	Hecuba	Voice; Episode: "Lil Rob Roundup"
	Lake Placid: The Final Chapter	Cloris Robinson	Television film
	30 Rock	Mrs. Hathaway	Episode: "Governor Dunston"
2012–13	Wizards vs Aliens	Claire Porter	Voice; 36 episodes
2012	Planet Sheen	Billie Brown	Voice; Episode: "Nightmare Sheenario"
	Home Alone: The Holiday Heist	E.R. Nurse	Television film
	Room on the Broom	Reindeer	Voice; Television film
2013	Community	Vurrla Kowsky	2 episodes
2013-2014	In the Flesh	Celia Robinson	9 episodes
2013–15	Henry Hugglemonster	Pat Mozell	Voice
2013-2021	Teen Titans Go!	Mrs. Spider	Voice; Episodes: "Double Trouble" "Real Magic" "Man Person" "Pirates" "I See You" "Garage Sale" "Pyramid Scheme" "Beast Boy's St. Patrick's Day Luck, and It's Bad" "Operation Dude Rescue: Pt. 1" "History Lesson" "TV Knight" "TV Knight 2" "Flashback: Pt. 1" "Flashback: Pt. 2" "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Dance Crew Edition: Pt. 2"
2013	Monsters vs. Aliens	Hannah Anderson	Voice; Episode: "Night of the Living Dog"
	Camp Lakebottom	Mrs. Sue	Voice; Episode: "Escape From Camp Lakebottom"
	Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem	Mrs. Matthews	Voice; Television film
	Sooty	Ruth Weaver	Episode: "Pranks and Presents"
	Hebburn	Millie	Christmas special
2014	Nina Needs to Go!	Nana Sheila	Voice; 15 episodes
	Turbo Fast	Jo Ann Hinckley	Voice; Episode: "Gypsy Moth Prophecies"
	Breadwinners	Kitty	Voice; Episode: "Driver's Breaducation"
	Mixels	Claire Raven	Voice; Episode: "Fang Gang Log Toss"
	The Day My Butt Went Psycho!	Mrs. Atta	Voice; Episode: "Journey to the Center of the Mabletown Crack"
2014-2015	Doki	Mrs. Rosie	Voice; Episode: "The Treasure Hunters" "The Amazing Maze"
2014	Franklin & Bash	Flo	Episode: "Honor Thy Mother"
	Jar Dwellers SOS	Jane Melway	Voice; Episode: "V-Hawk Down"
	Trollied	Rose	Series 4
	Over the Garden Wall	Heather Robinson	Voice; 10 episodes
	Wander Over Yonder	Mrs. Sheila	Voice; Episode: "The Rider"
	Littlest Pet Shop	Nancy Morgan	Voice; Episode: "Snow Stormin'"
2015	Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Jenny Foley	Voice; Episode: "Star Comes to Earth"
	Gravity Falls	Ticket Granny	Voice; Episode: "Northwest Mansion Mystery"
	Harvey Beaks	Jane Anderson	Voice; Episodes: "The Finger" "Nightclub Night"
	Lake Placid vs. Anaconda	Cloris Robinson	Television film
	Steven Universe	Helen	Voice; Episode: "Keystone Motel"
	Clarence	Sally Jackson	Voice; Episode: "Tuckered Boys"
	Jake and the Never Land Pirates	Lady Aurora	Voice, Episode: "The Great Never Sea Conquest"
2015–2016	TripTank	Kitty O'Neil	Voice; 4 episodes
2015-2019	Supernoobs	Mrs. Emmy	Voice; Episodes: "A Noob Hope" "Noobies vs. Smoothies" "Noob Kids on the Block" "Who, What, Where and Noob" "Shake Your Noobie" "How to Noob the Science Fair" "Happy Noob-o-ween" "The Noobiest Place on Earth!" "To Noob or Not to Noob" "Noob of the Round Table" "The Noob Kids at School" "Pool Party Noob" "One Noob Wonder" "Noob Dunnit!"
2015	Wallykazam!	Mona Mondieu	Voice; Episode: "A Flouse in the House"
	Pig Goat Banana Cricket	Kathleen Barclay	Voice; Episode: "Bananaland"
2015-16	Danger Mouse	Ariel Anderson	Voice, 2 episodes
2015	Nature Cat	Fauna	Voice; Episode: "Astronauts"
	Toast of London	Mrs. Himmelstein	Episode: "Hamm on Toast"
	Fungus the Bogeyman	Helen Haniff	3-part series
2016	Sofia the First	Amanda	Voice; Episode: "Gone with the Wind"
	Plebs	Iona	Episode: "The Cupid"
	The Powerpuff Girls	Helen Buckman	Voice; Episode: "Arachno-Romance"
2016–2018	Rake	Huntley-Brown	3 episodes
2016–2017	Bottersnikes and Gumbles	Weathersnike	3 episodes
	The Loud House	Joanna Anderson	Voice; Episodes: "Sound of Silence" "Space Invader" "Roughin' It" "Patching Things Up" "Cheater by the Dozen" "Lock 'n' Loud" "The Whole Picture" "Fed Up" "Shell Shock" "ARGGH! You For Real?"
2016	The ZhuZhus	Kitty Twist	Voice; Episode: "Walter-Gate"
	Skylanders Academy	Camilla Haller	Voice; Episode: "Pop Rocks"
2017	Jeff & Some Aliens	J.J. Dalton	Voice, 3 episodes
2017–2018	We Bare Bears	Mrs. Queen Girl	Voice, 2 episodes
2017	Bucket	Mim	4 episodes
	The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show	Alva Leacock	Voice; Episode: "P-Bro/First Canie Police Force"
	Chuck's Choice	The Queen Mother	Voice; Episode: "Cool Hand Norm"
	ToonMarty	Madame Pig	Voice; Episode: "Candy Cute"
	Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer	Aunt Girl	Voice; Episode: "Zartran"
	The Lodge	Mary Anne	Episode: "No Hard Feelings"
	Welcome to the Wayne	Nancy Trainer	Voice; Episode: "Beeping the Binklemobile"
	Family Guy	Right Eyeball	Voice; Episode: "Emmy-Winning Episode"
	The Exorcist	Meg Harper	Episode: "There But for the Grace of God, Go I"
2018	Chicago Med	Jane Applegate	Episode: "On Shaky Ground"
	Mozart in the Jungle	Betty Rizzo	Episode: "The Boyfriend"
	Star Wars Rebels	Julie Siegel	Voice; 2 episodes
	The Magic School Bus Rides Again	Principal Beatty	Voice; Episode: "Ralphie and the Flying Tennellis"
	Lake Placid: Legacy	Cloris Robinson	Television film
	Big City Greens	Mrs. Joanna	Voice; Episode: "Photo Op"
2018–2021	Call the Midwife	Sister Mildred/Mother Mildred	7 episodes
2019	The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle	The Old Woman	Voice; Episode: "The Legends of the Power Gems"
	Amphibia	Granny Teacher	Voice; Episode: "Anne of the Year"
	Let's Go Luna	Sonia	Voice; Episode: "C'est Cheese"
	101 Dalmatian Street	Bessie	Voice; Episode: "A Summer to Remember"
	Harvey Girls Forever!	Mrs. Forbes	Voice; Episode: "Zen & The Art of Video Game Patience"
2020	The Windsors	Queen Victoria	Episode #3.01
	The Owl House	Mother Fox	Voice; Episode: "Young Blood, Old Souls"
	Truth Seekers	Beverly	8 episodes
2021	Castlevania	Iris Morden	Voice; 7 episodes
2021–2023	Gossip Girl	Ruby McNutt	4 episodes
2021, 2022	The Ghost and Molly McGee	Claire Foley	Voice; Episodes: "The Curse" "The Jig is Up"
2022	Hero Elementary	Corie Bratter	Voice; Episode: "Teacher of the Year"
	Bubble Guppies	The Mrs. Queen Judy Mother	Voice; Episode: "Search for the Great Silverback"
	Dog Squad	Sylvie	Voice; 3 episodes
2023	Dead Ringers	P.J.	6 episodes
	Doctor Who	The Meep	Voice; "The Star Beast"
	Hilda	Astrid	Voice; 4 episodes
	Mog's Christmas	Aunt	Voice

Video games

Wallace & Gromit – Beryl

Non-fiction television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Dickens in America	Herself	10 episodes
2016	The Real Marigold Hotel		BBC TV documentary series
2018	Miriam's Big American Adventure		BBC TV documentary series
2019	Miriam's Dead Good Adventure		BBC TV documentary series
2020	Miriam's Big Fat Adventure		BBC TV documentary series
	Miriam Margolyes: Almost Australian		ABC TV documentary series
2021, 2022	Miriam and Alan: Lost in Scotland		C4 TV documentary series
2022	Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs		An Alan Yentob imagine... documentary for BBC TV
	Miriam Margolyes Australia Unmasked		ABC TV documentary series
	Miriam's Dickensian Christmas		C4 TV documentary
2023	Irish Road Trip with Miriam Margolyes		SBS TV documentary series
2024	Impossibly Australian		ABC TV documentary series
	Miriam Margolyes: A New Australian Adventure		BBC TV documentary series

Notes

• The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) – the voice of the Maiden from Mombasa (original version only; the character was not heard at all in the re-edited versions and another actor was never available in all the re-edited versions)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) – Peg Sellers – note this film was shown in cinemas in the UK, Ireland, and Australia – it aired on cable television on the HBO network in the US.

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue
1970	Fiddler on the Roof	Matchmaker	UK Tour
1972	Threepenny Opera	Nelly	Piccadilly Theatre, London
1974	Canterbury Tales	Wife of Bath	Bristol Old Vic
1975	Kennedy's Children	Performer	Arts Theatre, London
1976	The White Devil	Zanche the Moor	Old Vic Theatre, London
1978	Cloud Nine	Performer	Joint Stock/Royal Court Tour
1979	Flaming Bodies	Psychiatrist	ICA
1984	84 Charing Cross Road	Helen Hanff	Colchester
1985–87	Gertrude Stein and a Companion	Gertrude Stein	Edinburgh Festival Hampstead Theatre Australian Tour
1986	Man Equals Man	Widow Begbick	Almeida Theatre, London
1988	Orpheus Descending	Vee Talbot	Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
1989–91	Dickens' Women	Performer	Edinburgh Festival Hampstead Theatre Duke of York's Theatre, London
1993	She Stoops to Conquer	Mrs. Hardcastle	Queen's Theatre, London
1995	The Killing of Sister George	June Buckridge	Ambassadors Theatre, London
1999	The Cherry Orchard	Madame Ranevskaya	Theatre Royal, York
2001	Romeo and Juliet	Nurse	Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles
	The Vagina Monologues	Performer	Arts Theatre, London
2003	The Way of the World	Lady Wishfort	Sydney Theatre Company
2004	Blithe Spirit	Madame Arcati	Melbourne Theatre Company
2006	The Importance of Being Earnest	Miss Prism	Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York
	Wicked	Madame Morrible	Apollo Victoria Theatre, London
2008			George Gershwin Theater, New York
2009	Realism	Performer	Melbourne Theatre Company
	Endgame	Nell	Duchess Theatre, London
2010	Me and My Girl	The Duchess	Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
2011	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg	Grace	Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow
2012	Dickens' Women	Performer	World Tour
2014	Neighbourhood Watch	Ana	Adelaide State Theatre
	I'll Eat You Last	Sue Mengers	Melbourne Theatre Company
2015	The Importance of Being Miriam	Performer	Australian Tour
2017	Madame Rubinstein	Helena Rubinstein	Park Theatre, London
2019	The Lady in the Van	Miss Shepherd	Melbourne Theatre Company
	Sydney & The Old Girl	Nell Stock	Park Theatre, London

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Refs
1989	Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle	Supporting Actress	Little Dorrit	Won
1991	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Actress in a Musical	Dickens' Women	Nominated
1993	Sony Radio Award	Best Actress On Radio	The Queen and I	Won
1994	British Academy Film Award	Best Supporting Actress	The Age of Innocence	Won
1997	The Talkies Performer of the Year	—	Oliver Twist	Won
2001	Audiofile's Earphones Award	—	A Christmas Carol	Won
2007	Theatregoer's Choice Award	Best Supporting Actress in a Musical	Wicked	Won
2010		Best Supporting Actress in a Play	Endgame	Won
2018	Audiofile's Earphones Award	—	Bleak House	Won

Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.

External links

• Official website
• Miriam Margolyes at IMDb 
• Miriam Margolyes at the BFI's Screenonline
• Dickens' Women tour site
• Miriam Margolyes at Women in Comedy
• Miriam Margolyes discography at Discogs