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Miriam Margolyes (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; 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), Balto (1995), 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, which earned her an Olivier Award nomination; 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 educationEdit

Margolyes was born in Oxford on 18 May 1941<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> into a Jewish family.<ref name="thismuch" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She was the only child of Joseph Margolyes (1899–1995), a Scottish physician and general practitioner from the Gorbals area of Glasgow,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and property-developer Ruth<ref name="thismuch" /><ref>Newnham College Register, 1871–1971: 1951–1970, Newnham College, Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 1990, p. 130</ref> (Template:Née; 1905–1974),<ref>England & Wales Birth registration index record for Ruth Sandeman, mother's maiden surname Posner, April–June quarter 1905, West Derby registration district, Lancashire, vol. 8B, p. 450.</ref> daughter of a second-hand furniture dealer and auctioneer at Kirkdale, Liverpool, who later relocated to London.<ref name=thismuch/> The maternal family surname changed from Sandeman to Walters before Margolyes' birth.<ref name="thismuch">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=thismuch/>

Margolyes attended Oxford High School and Newnham College, Cambridge.<ref>Famous alumnae Template:Webarchive. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 3 January 2016.</ref> There, in her 20s, she began acting and appeared in productions by the Cambridge Footlights.<ref>Footlights Alumni Template:Webarchive. Footlights.org. Retrieved 25 August 2011.</ref> 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;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> she claims to have used the word in frustration on the show in 1963. The word was "bleeped out" for transmission.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>University Challenge The Story So Far – Documentary, Granada for BBC, aired by BBC 27 December 27, 2008, 14:15</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>Template:Efn

CareerEdit

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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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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).Template:Citation needed

In 1974, she appeared with Kenneth Williams and Ted Ray in the BBC Radio 2 comedy series The Betty Witherspoon Show.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Margolyes played the dental nurse to Steve Martin's dentist in the 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors. In her 2023 memoir Oh Miriam: Stories from an Extraordinary Life, Margolyes said Martin was "undeniably brilliant, but horrid to me" during the film.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Martin responded that "My memory is that we had a good communication as professional actors. But when it is implied that I harmed her or was in some way careless about doing the stunts, I have to object".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Clarify

In 1989, Margolyes co-wrote and performed a one-woman show, Dickens' Women, in which she played 23 characters from Dickens' novels.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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<ref>"Margolyes: Voice of a movie star" Template:Webarchive 31 December 2001, BBC News</ref> and provided the voice of Fly the dog in the Australian-American family film Babe (1995).<ref name="southernhighlandnews1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Harry Potter fans responded on X, one saying "Nobody has a right to try and shame people into not enjoying something they harmlessly enjoy." Louis Chilton wrote in The Independent that "Margolyes does have that right. Don’t we all? And what’s a bit of shame every now and then between friends?"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2009, she appeared in a new production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett at the Duchess Theatre in the West End.<ref>Brief Encounter With … Miriam Margolyes – Endgame at Duchess Theatre – London – Interviews Template:Webarchive. Whatsonstage.com. Retrieved 11 June 2012.</ref>

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).Template:Citation needed

In 2011, Margolyes recorded a narrative for the album The Devil's Brides by klezmer musician-ethnographer Yale Strom.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Margolyes played recurring character Prudence Stanley in the Australian-based TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries from 2012 to 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2014, she voiced Nana in the Disney Junior animated series Nina Needs to Go!<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series was reprised for two Christmas Specials The Real Marigold On Tour, from Florida and Kyoto.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She narrated the 2016 ITV documentary about Lady Colin Campbell entitled Lady C and the Castle.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In December 2017, Margolyes appeared in the second season of The Real Marigold On Tour to Chengdu and Havana.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.Template:Citation needed

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She voiced Queen Oofeefa in the film Early Man.Template:Citation needed Since 2018, Margolyes has portrayed Mother Mildred in the BBC One drama, Call The Midwife.Template:Citation needed

She played Miss Shepherd in a 2019 production of The Lady in the Van for the Melbourne Theatre Company in Melbourne in Australia.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity in February 2023.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was "Charles Dickens and all his works".Template:Citation needed In November 2023, Margolyes appeared as the voice of The Meep in "The Star Beast", the first of three Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Margolyes spent many years living for long periods in Australia,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and became an Australian citizen on Australia Day 2013, while retaining her British citizenship.<ref name=groves2013/>

She is a lesbian,<ref>Desert Island Discs – 28 September 2008 – Miriam Margolyes Template:Webarchive. BBC. (28 September 2008). Retrieved 25 August 2011.</ref> and referred to herself as a "dyke" live on national television and in front of Australian prime minister Julia Gillard in 2013.<ref name =groves2013 >Template:Cite news</ref> Since 1968, she has been in a relationship with Heather Sutherland,<ref name="southernhighlandnews1"/><ref>Property Observer, "Andrew Denton and Jennifer Byrne blaze a trail to Southern Highlands retreat" Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 7 December 2015</ref> an Australian retired professor of Indonesian studies.<ref>Sharon Verghis, "Miriam Margolyes: The ultimate character actress for Dickens", The Australian, 4 February 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2015.</ref> Template:As of, they were dividing their time between homes in London and Kent in England, Robertson, New South Wales in Australia, and Montisi in Italy.<ref>Gabriella Coslovich, "Lunch with Miriam Margolyes", Canberra Times, 7 April 2012 Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 7 December 2015</ref><ref>Jane Cadzow, "Miss Margolyes Mysteries"</ref><ref name="divamag1">Lyell, Carrie (9 February 2016). "Miriam Margolyes: My Mother Was Utterly Appalled When I Came Out" Template:Webarchive, Diva Magazine. UK. Retrieved 5 August 2016.</ref><ref>"At home with Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes" Template:Webarchive 11 May 2010, Southern Highland News</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

CharitiesEdit

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="sense">Celebrity supporters | Miriam Margolyes Template:Webarchive. Sense. Retrieved 25 August 2011.</ref>

She is also a campaigner for the respite care charity Crossroads.<ref name=latenightlive>Late Night Live – 10September2007 – Miriam Margolyes and Dickens' Women Template:Webarchive. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.au (10 September 2007). Retrieved 25 August 2011.</ref>

Political viewsEdit

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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 ChronicleTemplate:'s reporting of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's alleged associations with antisemites.<ref name="thejc">Template:Cite news</ref> In November 2019, she endorsed the Labour Party in the UK general election because of their policies on the National Health Service.<ref name="mirror">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="theguardian">Template:Cite news</ref> 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".<ref name="nme">Template:Cite news</ref>

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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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!'"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She is a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians.<ref>"JFJFP Signatories" Template:Webarchive Jews for Justice for Palestinians Signatory List 11 August 2012</ref> 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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:<ref name=independent-20240408>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=guardian-20240409>Template:Cite news</ref>

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... 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. ...{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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In popular cultureEdit

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.<ref name="Margolyes">Template:Cite news</ref>

FilmographyEdit

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

FilmEdit

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
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TelevisionEdit

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"
1966-1967 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 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 Peter Kerrigan 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, episode: "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"
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2023 Dead Ringers P.J. 6 episodes
Doctor Who The Meep Voice; "The Star Beast"
Hilda Astrid Voice; 4 episodes
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Non-fiction televisionEdit

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
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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.

TheatreEdit

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 TourTemplate:Efn
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
2024 White Rabbit Red Rabbit Performer @sohoplace, London<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards and nominationsEdit

Year Award Category Nominated work Result Refs
1989 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Supporting Actress Little Dorrit Template:Won <ref name=BBC2001>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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1991 Laurence Olivier Award Best Actress in a Musical Dickens' Women Template:Nom <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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1993 Sony Radio Award Best Actress On Radio The Queen and I Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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1994 British Academy Film Award Best Supporting Actress The Age of Innocence Template:Won <ref name=BBC2001 /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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1997 The Talkies Performer of the Year Template:N/a Oliver Twist Template:Won <ref name=SCG2012>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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2001 Audiofile's Earphones Award Template:N/a A Christmas Carol Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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2007 Theatregoer's Choice Award Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Wicked Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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2010 Best Supporting Actress in a Play Endgame Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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2018 Audiofile's Earphones Award Template:N/a Bleak House Template:Won <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

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Margolyes was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2002 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>

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