---
name: "Miriam Karlin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/miriam-karlin"
fi1m_id: "miriam-karlin"
imdb_id: "nm0439507"
tmdb_id: 2274
wikidata_id: "Q522894"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "23 June 1925"
died: "3 June 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-20T03:32:59.218337+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Miriam Karlin

## Identity

Miriam Karlin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/miriam-karlin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** miriam-karlin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0439507
- **TMDB ID:** 2274
- **Wikidata ID:** Q522894
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Karlin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522894, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439507/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2274

Actor. Born 23 June 1925 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. Died 3 June 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 23 June 1925, Hampstead, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 3 June 2011
- **Active:** 1971–2006
- **Also known as:** Miriam Samuels
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 acting, 1 other
- **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 82 (1), 1970s 78 (1), 2000s 85 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Karlin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q522894, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0439507/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2274

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*A Clockwork Orange*](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Miriam Karlin was a British actress. Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead, London, she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her career in repertory theatre and cabaret before making her London stage debut in 1946.

She became widely known for playing the militant shop steward Paddy in the BBC sitcom *The Rag Trade* (1961–63). Her film roles included appearances in *Room at the Top* (1959), *The Entertainer* (1960), *A Clockwork Orange* (1971) as the Catlady, *Mahler* (1974), *The Man Who Cried* (2000) and *Children of Men* (2006). She was appointed OBE in 1975.

*Sources: theguardian.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (2) — the average rests on these

- *Children of Men* (2006), Fi1m 85, as Caged German Grandmother — [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-men.md)
- *A Clockwork Orange* (1971), Fi1m 78, as Catlady — [page](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Room at the Top* (1958), Fi1m 82, as Gertrude (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/room-at-the-top.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Flashbacks of a Fool* (2008), as Mrs. Rogers
- *Children of Men* (2006), as Caged German Grandmother — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/children-of-men.md)
- *Ex Memoria* (2006), as Gertrude, German Resident
- *The Man Who Cried* (2000), as Madame Goldstein
- *Incognito* (1997), as Marina
- *Dalziel and Pascoe* (1996), series, as Judith Bateman
- *Utz* (1992), as Grandmother
- *So Haunt Me* (1992), series, Actor
- *Jekyll & Hyde* (1990), as Mrs. Hackett
- *Can I Help You?* (1981), Actor
- *The Rag Trade* (1977), series, Actor
- *The Joke* (1976), as Friedel
- *Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done* (1975), as Little Buttercup / Utopian Maiden (voice)
- *Mahler* (1974), as Aunt Rosa
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, as Friedel
- *Crown Court* (1972), series, Actor
- *A Clockwork Orange* (1971), as Catlady — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/a-clockwork-orange.md)
- *ITV Saturday Night Theatre* (1969), series, as The Queen
- *Just Like a Woman* (1967), as Ellen Newman
- *Thirty-Minute Theatre* (1965), series, as Marcella Vankuchen
- *The Wednesday Play* (1964), series, as Manicurist
- *The Bargee* (1964), as Nellie Marsh
- *Ladies Who Do* (1963), as Mrs. Higgins
- *Heavens Above!* (1963), as Winnie Smith
- *The Small World of Sammy Lee* (1963), as Milly
- *I Thank a Fool* (1962), as Woman in the Black Maria
- *The Phantom of the Opera* (1962), as Charwoman
- *On the Fiddle* (1961), as Waaf Sergeant
- *Watch It, Sailor!* (1961), as Mrs. Lack
- *The Fourth Square* (1961), as Josette
- *Hand in Hand* (1961), as Mrs. Mathias
- *Crossroads to Crime* (1960), as Connie Williams
- *The Millionairess* (1960), as Mrs. Joe
- *The Entertainer* (1960), as Renée Baxter
- *Room at the Top* (1958), as Gertrude (uncredited) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/room-at-the-top.md)
- *The Big Money* (1958), as Lady in Nightclub
- *A Touch of the Sun* (1956), as Alice Cann
- *Fun at St. Fanny's* (1955), as 'The Private Eye'
- *Quay South* (1955), as Hilda Thwaite
- *The Woman for Joe* (1955), as Gladys
- *Down Among the Z Men* (1952), as Woman in Shop

## Gallery

- ![Miriam Karlin](https://film.one/media/person/59409/gallery-9f4daef4f290.png) Miriam Karlin — Stanley Kubrick, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/MiriamKarlinAClockworkOrange.png/1280px-MiriamKarlinAClockworkOrange.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Miriam Karlin](https://film.one/media/person/59409/gallery-5e0653f20ec0.jpg) Miriam Karlin — Image via TMDB
- ![Miriam Karlin](https://film.one/media/person/59409/gallery-a9ed822ab5bb.jpg) Miriam Karlin — Image via TMDB
- ![Miriam Karlin](https://film.one/media/person/59409/gallery-112bb3c574c1.jpg) Miriam Karlin — Image via TMDB

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