Miriam Margolyes is a British actress. She voices Despair on the Audible original adaptation of The Sandman.
Margolyes is a veteran of stage, screen, and voice acting. During the 1970s, she recorded a erotic audio called Sexy Sonia: Leaves from my Schoolgirl Notebook. She also voiced two Japanese TV series; Monkey, in which she performed for majority of the supporting female characters in the English version, as well as The Water Margin. She was the voiced characters in the the such feature films as Babe (1995), Flushed Away (2006), and The Little Vampire (2017).
Margolyes television credits include World of Laughter, The History Man, Doc Martin, The Sarah Jane Adventures, and Frannie's Turn. More recently, she appears as Mother Mildred in the BBC drama, Call the Midwife.