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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 24, 1950
Place of Birth:
London, England, UK
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Harriet Walter
Biography
Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE (born 24 September 1950) is a British actress. She has received a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations including for a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama.
Walter began her career in 1974 and made her Broadway debut in 1983. For her work in various Royal Shakespeare Company productions, including Twelfth Night (1987–88) and Three Sisters (1988), she won the 1988 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival. Her other notable work for the RSC includes leading roles in Macbeth (1999) and Antony and Cleopatra (2006). She won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth I in the 2005 London revival of Mary Stuart, and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play when she reprised the role on Broadway in 2009. She reprised her roles of Brutus in Julius Caesar (2012) and the title role in Henry IV (2014), as well as playing Prospero in The Tempest, as part of an all-female Shakespeare trilogy in 2016.
Her film appearances include Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Governess (1998), Villa des Roses (2002), Atonement (2007), The Young Victoria (2009), A Royal Affair (2012), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Denial (2016), The Sense of an Ending (2017), Rocketman (2019) and Ridley Scott's The Last Duel (2021). On television she starred as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK (2009–14), in four episodes of Downton Abbey (2013–15), in the miniseries London Spy (2015), as Clementine Churchill in The Crown (2016), in Patrick Melrose (2018), and in the third season of Killing Eve (2020). She is a three-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee; two for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Succession (2018–21) and one for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Ted Lasso (2021).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | And Mrs. | Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn |
| 2024 | National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba | Bernarda Alba |
| 2024 | The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee | Self |
| 2023 | On The Line | Shirley |
| 2023 | Osborne House: A Royal Retreat | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Burial | Anna Marshall |
| 2022 | Your Christmas or Mine? | Iris |
| 2021 | Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius | Duchess of Marlborough |
| 2021 | The Last Duel | Nicole de Carrouges |
| 2020 | Herself | Peggy |
| 2019 | Rocketman | Helen Piena |
| 2018 | My Dinner with Hervé | Baskin |
| 2018 | Julius Caesar | Brutus |
| 2018 | Henry IV | Henry IV |
| 2018 | The Tempest | Prospero |
| 2017 | The Sense of an Ending | Margaret Webster |
| 2016 | Denial | Vera Reich |
| 2016 | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Performer |
| 2016 | Mindhorn | Richard's Agent |
| 2015 | Suite Française | Viscountess Montmort |
| 2015 | Man Up | Fran Patterson |
| 2015 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | Dr. Kalonia |
| 2014 | The Mysterious Mr Webster | Self - Interviewee |
| 2012 | The Wedding Video | Alex |
| 2012 | The Domino Effect | Ann |
| 2012 | A Royal Affair | Augusta - Princess of Wales |
| 2012 | The Door | Woman with Sorrowful Eyes |
| 2009 | Chéri | La Loupiote |
| 2009 | From Time to Time | Lady Gresham |
| 2009 | The Young Victoria | Queen Adelaide |
| 2009 | A Short Stay in Switzerland | Clare |
| 2009 | Morris: A Life with Bells On | Professor Compton Chamberlayne |
| 2008 | Ballet Shoes | Dr. Smith |
| 2008 | Abraham's Point | Pani Nemeth |
| 2008 | Broken Lines | Leah |
| 2007 | Atonement | Emily Tallis |
| 2006 | Babel | Lilly |
| 2006 | Chromophobia | Penelope Aylesbury |
| 2003 | Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| 2003 | Bright Young Things | Lady Maitland |
| 2002 | Villa Des Roses | Olive Burrell |
| 2002 | George Eliot: A Scandalous Life | Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot |
| 2001 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth |
| 1999 | Onegin | Madame Larina |
| 1998 | The Governess | Mrs. Cavendish |
| 1998 | Bedrooms and Hallways | Sybil |
| 1997 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying | Julia Comstock |
| 1996 | The Leading Man | Liz Flett |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Fanny Ferrars Dashwood |
| 1994 | Hard Times | Rachel |
| 1994 | A Man You Don't Meet Every Day | Charlotte |
| 1993 | The Hour of the Pig | Jeannine Martin |
| 1993 | The Maitlands | Mrs. Dorothy Maitland |
| 1993 | Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | They Never Slept | Amelia Cleverly |
| 1990 | May Fools | Lily |
| 1989 | Benefactors | |
| 1985 | The Good Father | Emmy Hooper |
| 1985 | Turtle Diary | Harriet Sims |
| 1985 | The Price | Frances Carr |
| 1984 | Reflections | Ottilie Garinger |
| 1984 | Amy | Amy Johnson |
| 1981 | The Cherry Orchard | Varya |
| 1980 | The Imitation Game | |
| Late in Summer |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Brian and Maggie | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2023 | Silo | Martha Walker |
| 2023 | Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant | Elsie Leach |
| 2022 | This Is Going to Hurt | Veronique |
| 2021 | The Cleaner | Lisa |
| 2020 | Ted Lasso | Deborah |
| 2020 | Alan Bennett's Talking Heads | Muriel |
| 2020 | Belgravia | Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst |
| 2020 | The End | Edie Henley |
| 2019 | Curfew | Helen Newman |
| 2019 | The Spanish Princess | Margaret Beaufort |
| 2018 | Patrick Melrose | Princess Margaret |
| 2018 | Killing Eve | Dasha Duzran |
| 2018 | Succession | Lady Caroline Collingwood |
| 2018 | Black Earth Rising | Eve Ashby |
| 2017 | Tate Britain's Great Art Walks | Self |
| 2016 | The Crown | Clemmie Churchill |
| 2016 | Flowers | Hylda |
| 2015 | London Spy | Claire |
| 2015 | London Spy | |
| 2015 | Documentary Now! | Edwina |
| 2015 | Wolf Hall | Margaret Pole |
| 2014 | The Assets | Jeanne Vertefeuille |
| 2013 | Heading Out | Angela |
| 2013 | By Any Means | Sally Walker |
| 2012 | Call the Midwife | Sister Ursula |
| 2012 | Simon Schama's Shakespeare | |
| 2011 | Black Mirror | Judith Keyworth |
| 2010 | Downton Abbey | Lady Shackleton |
| 2009 | Law & Order: UK | Natalie Chandler |
| 2009 | Hunter | ACC Jenny Griffin |
| 2008 | Fairy Tales | |
| 2008 | 10 Days to War | Anne Campbell |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self |
| 2004 | London | Virginia Woolf |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Duchess |
| 2002 | Spooks | Deep Throat |
| 2001 | Waking the Dead | Annie Keel |
| 2001 | Messiah | Professor Robb |
| 2001 | My Uncle Silas | Pamela Farrell |
| 1999 | The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns | Queen Morag |
| 1998 | Unfinished Business | |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Margaret Winstanley |
| 1997 | A Dance to the Music of Time | Mildred |
| 1997 | Arthouse | Self |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Diana Davenport |
| 1996 | Dalziel & Pascoe | |
| 1994 | Hard Times | Rachel |
| 1991 | Performance | Dorothy Maitland |
| 1991 | Ashenden | Giulia Lazzari |
| 1987 | Inspector Morse | Dr. Esther Martin |
| 1987 | A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery | Harriet Vane |
| 1987 | A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery | Harriet Vane |
| 1985 | Girls On Top | R.S.C. Actress 3 |
| 1985 | The Price | Frances Carr |
| 1985 | Screen Two | Amelia Cleverly |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee |