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
The Last Duel (2021)
as Nicole de Carrouges
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
Atonement (2007)
as Emily Tallis
Rocketman (2019)
as Helen Piena
Babel (2006)
as Lilly
A Royal Affair (2012)
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Suite Française (2015)
as Viscountess Montmort
The Young Victoria (2009)
as Queen Adelaide
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
as Margaret Webster
Man Up (2015)
as Fran Patterson
Ballet Shoes (2008)
as Dr. Smith
And Mrs. (2024)
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
Chromophobia (2006)
as Penelope Aylesbury
Chéri (2009)
as La Loupiote
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
as Iris
Herself (2020)
as Peggy
From Time to Time (2009)
as Lady Gresham
Denial (2016)
as Vera Reich
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
as Baskin
The Hour of the Pig (1993)
as Jeannine Martin
The Domino Effect (2012)
as Ann
May Fools (1990)
as Lily
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993)
as Narrator (voice)
The Maitlands (1993)
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
Onegin (1999)
as Madame Larina
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)
as Julia Comstock
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer (2027)
as Violet Venable
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC (2016)
as Self - Performer
Bright Young Things (2003)
as Lady Maitland
Bedrooms and Hallways (1998)
as Sybil
A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009)
as Clare
The Good Father (1985)
as Emmy Hooper
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba (2024)
as Bernarda Alba
The Governess (1998)
as Mrs. Cavendish
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks (2021)
as Jo Patterson
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee (2024)
as Self
The Leading Man (1996)
as Liz Flett
Mindhorn (2016)
as Richard's Agent
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002)
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
The Wedding Video (2012)
as Alex
Burial (2022)
as Anna Marshall
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (1994)
as Charlotte
Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009)
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Margot & Rudi (—)
Actor
Turtle Diary (1985)
as Harriet Sims
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (2003)
as Mary Wollstonecraft
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius (2021)
as Duchess of Marlborough
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat (2023)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Villa Des Roses (2002)
as Olive Burrell
Macbeth (2001)
as Lady Macbeth
The Cherry Orchard (1981)
as Varya
Broken Lines (2008)
as Leah
Benefactors (1989)
Actor
The Mysterious Mr Webster (2014)
as Self - Interviewee
They Never Slept (1991)
as Amelia Cleverly
The Imitation Game (1980)
Actor
The Price (1985)
as Frances Carr
Abraham's Point (2008)
as Pani Nemeth
Late in Summer (—)
Actor
The Door (2012)
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
On The Line (2023)
as Shirley
Amy (1984)
as Amy Johnson
The Tempest (2018)
as Prospero
Julius Caesar (2018)
as Brutus
La nuit miraculeuse (1989)
Actor
Henry IV (2018)
as Henry IV
Reflections (1984)
as Ottilie Garinger