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Pam Ferris

Pam Ferris

Highest Rated: 97% Ethel & Ernest (2016)

Lowest Rated: 10% Holmes & Watson (2018)

Birthday: May 11, 1948

Birthplace: Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany

Welsh actor Pam Ferris has had a productive career in a range of roles, from several television leads to matriarchal types in film, most visibly as Aunt Marge in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." After spending her childhood in Wales, Ferris moved with her family to New Zealand at 13 before returning home as an adult, making her first screen appearance in a "BBC Play of the Month" in her early 20s; she didn't return to the screen for more than a decade. When she did, however, Ferris had the good fortune to work with now-revered English directors Mike Figgis and Mike Leigh, appearing in each of their TV movies in 1984. By 1991, she had her first lead role on television, as Ma Larkin in the comedy "The Darling Buds of May," which also featured fellow Welsh actor Catherine Zeta-Jones. In 1996 Ferris made her big screen debut as the mean principal Agatha Trunchbull in Danny DeVito's adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Matilda." She of course received international recognition for her portrayal of the equally cruel Aunt Marge in "Prisoner of Azkaban," the relatively critically-acclaimed, Alfonso Cuarón-directed "Harry Potter" film of 2004; Ferris reunited with Cuarón just two years later in his dystopian drama, "Children of Men." All that said, her most beloved role, at least to English audiences, has arguably been that of Laura Thyme, in the gardeners-turned-sleuths TV crime mystery, "Rosemary & Thyme," from the mid-2000s.

Highest rated movies

92% 85% Children of Men 92% 73% Matilda
90% 86% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
80% 80% Meantime
79% 69% Telstar
51% 71% Tolkien
48% 66% Nativity!
43% 66% Death to Smoochy

Filmography

Movies

Credit
51% 71% Tolkien Mrs. Faulkner (Character) $4.5M 2019
10% 25% Holmes & Watson Queen Victoria (Character) $30.5M 2018
97% 87% Ethel & Ernest Mrs. Bennett (Voice) - 2016
17% 43% Saving Santa Mrs. Clause (Voice) - 2013
36% 50% Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! Mrs Bevan (Character) - 2012
23% 46% The Raven Mrs. Bradley (Character) $16.0M 2012
44% 26% Jackboots on Whitehall Matron Rutty (Voice) - 2010
No Score Yet 55% Within the Whirlwind Genia's mother (Character) - 2009
48% 66% Nativity! Headmistress (Character) - 2009
79% 69% Telstar Mrs. Shenton (Character) - 2008
16% 18% The Other Man Vera (Character) - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet Christmas at the Riviera Avril (Character) - 2007
92% 85% Children of Men Miriam (Character) $35.3M 2006
No Score Yet 75% Pollyanna Mrs. Snow (Character) - 2004
90% 86% Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Aunt Marge (Character) $249.4M 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marple: 4:50 From Paddington Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 24% Gladiatress Mrs. Goatsplitter (Character) - 2004
43% 66% Death to Smoochy Tommy Kotter (Character) $8.4M 2002
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sweet Revenge Denise Williams (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 38% The Turn of the Screw Mrs Grose (Character) - 1999
92% 73% Matilda Agatha Trunchbull (Character) $33.1M 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Star Quality Marian Blake (Character) - 1985
80% 80% Meantime Mavis (Character) - 1983

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 95% Call the Midwife Sister Evangelina (Character) 2012-2016
88% 88% Luther Baba (Character) 2011
97% 92% Gavin & Stacey Cath (Character) 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Masterpiece Theatre Unknown (Character) 1999-2000 2007
No Score Yet 100% Jane Eyre Grace Poole (Character) 2006