Harriet Walter
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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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Shelter (2026)
as Prime Minister Fordham
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
as Dr. Kalonia
Atonement (2007)
as Emily Tallis
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
Babel (2006)
as Lilly
The Last Duel (2021)
as Nicole de Carrouges
Rocketman (2019)
as Helen Piena
A Royal Affair (2012)
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Suite Française (2015)
as Viscountess Montmort
Ballet Shoes (2008)
as Dr. Smith
The Young Victoria (2009)
as Queen Adelaide
Man Up (2015)
as Fran Patterson
Herself (2020)
as Peggy
Chéri (2009)
as La Loupiote
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
as Baskin
Onegin (1999)
as Madame Larina
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Iris
Bright Young Things (2003)
as Lady Maitland
Denial (2016)
as Vera Reich
The Cherry Orchard (1981)
as Varya
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
as Julia Comstock
Chromophobia (2006)
as Penelope Aylesbury
From Time to Time (2009)
as Lady Gresham
The Hour of the Pig (1993)
as Jeannine Martin
The Maitlands (1993)
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
The Leading Man (1996)
as Liz Flett
The Wedding Video (2012)
as Alex
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat (2023)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
as Margaret Webster
Turtle Diary (1985)
as Harriet Sims
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba (2024)
as Bernarda Alba
The Governess (1998)
as Mrs. Cavendish
Broken Lines (2008)
as Leah
May Fools (1990)
as Lily
La nuit miraculeuse (1989)
Actor
Margot & Rudi (—)
Actor
Mindhorn (2016)
as Richard's Agent
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
as Sybil
The Domino Effect (2012)
as Ann
On The Line (2023)
as Shirley
Villa Des Roses (2002)
as Olive Burrell
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks (2021)
as Jo Patterson
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
as Self
And Mrs. (2024)
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009)
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Benefactors (1989)
Actor
The Mysterious Mr Webster (2014)
as Self - Interviewee
The Good Father (1985)
as Emmy Hooper
A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009)
as Clare
Late in Summer (—)
Actor
Burial (2022)
as Anna Marshall
Hard Times (1994)
as Rachel
Abraham's Point (2008)
as Pani Nemeth
Julius Caesar (2018)
as Brutus
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003)
as Mary Wollstonecraft
Brian and Maggie (2025)
as Margaret Thatcher
They Never Slept (1991)
as Amelia Cleverly
Macbeth (2001)
as Lady Macbeth
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
as Self - Performer
The Imitation Game (1980)
Actor
Reflections (1984)
as Ottilie Garinger
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002)
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (1994)
as Charlotte
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius (2021)
as Duchess of Marlborough
The Tempest (2018)
as Prospero
The Price (1985)
as Frances Carr
Amy (1984)
as Amy Johnson
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993)
as Narrator (voice)
Henry IV (2018)
as Henry IV
The Door (2012)
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes