Pam Ferris

Actor May 11 (age 78) Hanover, Germany 1965–2025 (60 year career)

6.4 avg rating

Biography

Pamela Ann 'Pam' Ferris is a German-born Welsh actress. She is best known for her starring roles on television as Ma Larkin in "The Darling Buds of May", as Laura Thyme in "Rosemary & Thyme", and for playing Miss Trunchbull in the movie "Matilda". She also played the part of Aunt Marge in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".

Known For

Film

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Marge Dursley

Film

Children of Men

Miriam

Film

Matilda

Agatha Trunchbull

Film

Tolkien

Mrs. Faulkner

Film

The Raven

Mrs. Bradley

Film

Call the Midwife

Sister Evangelina

Film

Jane Eyre

Grace Poole

Film

Ethel & Ernest

Mrs Bennett / Aunty Betty (voice)

Filmography

Acting (80)

Movies (39)

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

as Marie

Tolkien

as Mrs. Faulkner

Holmes & Watson

as Queen Victoria

Ethel & Ernest

as Mrs Bennett / Aunty Betty (voice)

7.5

We're Going on a Bear Hunt

2016

as Grandma (voice)

6.8

Saving Santa

2013

as Mrs. Claus (voice)

5.2

The Raven

2012

as Mrs. Bradley

6.3

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!

2012

as Mrs. Bevan

5.4

Jackboots on Whitehall

2010

as Matron Rutty (voice)

Malice in Wonderland

as Doochey

Nativity!

as Mrs. Bevan

Within the Whirlwind

as Genia's mother

The Other Man

as Vera

Telstar: The Joe Meek Story

2008

as Mrs. Violet Shenton

5.5

Christmas at the Riviera

as Avril

Children of Men

as Miriam

West Coast Otters

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'

2005

as Herself (archive footage)

4.5

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

as Marge Dursley

Piccadilly Jim

as Miss Trimble

Gladiatress

as Mrs Goatsplitter

Pollyanna

as Mrs. Snow

Anna Spud

as Mum

Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie

as Lolita

Death to Smoochy

as Tommy Cotter

Family

as Marion

Bessie and the Bell

2001

as Bessie

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

2001

as Mrs. Squeers

7.8

The Turn of the Screw

1999

as Mrs. Grose

5.7

Bill's New Frock

1998

as Mrs. Collins

Matilda

as Agatha Trunchbull

Death of a Salesman

as Woman

Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre

1995

as Alice Hartley

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland

1994

as Aunt Pettitoes (voice)

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

1992

as Mad Marion

4.5

Roots

1992

as Mrs Bryant

Star Quality

as Marian Blake

The House

as Mrs. Smeth

Meantime

as Mavis

Television (41)

Amandaland

2025

as Elspeth

6.8

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule

as Self

Call the Midwife

as Sister Evangelina

Call the Midwife

as Sister Evangelina

Luther

as Baba

Grandma's House

as Deborah

Drama Trails

Little Dorrit

as Mrs. General

Gavin & Stacey

as Cath Smith

Lilies

as Alice Bird

Jane Eyre

as Grace Poole

Missing

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Elspeth McGillicuddy

7.8

The Paul O'Grady Show

Rosemary & Thyme

as Laura Thyme

Paradise Heights

as Marion Eustace

Sweet Revenge

2001

as Denise Williams

Our Mutual Friend

as Henrietta Boffin

Midsomer Murders

as Liz Tomlin

Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is

as Peggy Snow

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

as Mrs Markham

Wycliffe

as Pat Trethowan

Middlemarch

The Rector's Wife

as Eleanor Ramsay

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1992

as Aunt Pettitoes (voice)

6.2

Performance

1991

as Mrs Bryant

6.0

The Darling Buds of May

as Ma Larkin

Cluedo

as Mrs. White

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

as Mrs Arkwright

A Sense of Guilt

as Magdalen Parry

South of the Border

as Brenda

The Fear

as Brenda

Hardwicke House

as Ms Crabbe

Lizzie's Pictures

Casualty

as Linda

Ladies in Charge

Screen Two

as Alice Hartley

Connie

as Nesta

Aspel & Company

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Puck / Faerie

5.0