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Name
Harriet Walter

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1950-09-24 (76 years old)

Place of Birth
London, England, UK

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

Movies

Tv Shows

2006 Babel as Lilly
1990 May Fools as Lily
2003 Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster as Mary Wollstonecraft
2007 Atonement as Emily Tallis
2014 The Mysterious Mr Webster as Self - Interviewee
2022 Burial as Anna Marshall
1996 The Leading Man as Liz Flett
1985 The Good Father as Emmy Hooper
2021 Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius as Duchess of Marlborough
2006 Chromophobia as Penelope Aylesbury
1993 The Hour of the Pig as Jeannine Martin
2002 Villa Des Roses as Olive Burrell
2023 On The Line as Shirley
1998 The Governess as Mrs. Cavendish
2001 Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
2012 The Wedding Video as Alex
2012 The Domino Effect as Ann
2009 Chéri as La Loupiote
1984 Reflections as Ottilie Garinger
1991 They Never Slept as Amelia Cleverly
1989 Benefactors
2015 Suite Française as Viscountess Montmort
2008 Ballet Shoes as Dr. Smith
2002 George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
1995 Sense and Sensibility as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
1993 The Maitlands as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
2022 Your Christmas or Mine? as Iris
1980 The Imitation Game as Cathy Raine
2024 And Mrs. as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
2015 Man Up as Fran Patterson
2017 The Sense of an Ending as Margaret Webster
1993 Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Narrator (voice)
2024 National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba as Bernarda Alba
2003 Bright Young Things as Lady Maitland
2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Dr. Kalonia
2009 From Time to Time as Lady Gresham
2009 The Young Victoria as Queen Adelaide
2024 The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee as Self
1984 Amy as Amy Johnson
1998 Bedrooms and Hallways as Sybil
1981 The Cherry Orchard as Varya
2016 Denial as Vera Reich
Soon Late in Summer
2016 Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
1985 Turtle Diary as Harriet Sims
2009 A Short Stay in Switzerland as Clare
2016 Mindhorn as Richard's Agent
1985 The Price as Frances Carr
2018 My Dinner with Hervé as Baskin
2018 Julius Caesar as Brutus
2012 The Door as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
2019 Rocketman as Helen Piena
1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Julia Comstock
2009 Morris: A Life with Bells On as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
2008 Abraham's Point as Pani Nemeth
2021 The Last Duel as Nicole de Carrouges
1994 A Man You Don't Meet Every Day as Charlotte
1999 Onegin as Madame Larina
2018 Henry IV as Henry IV
2018 The Tempest as Prospero
2020 Herself as Peggy
2023 Osborne House: A Royal Retreat as Self - Narrator (voice)
2008 Broken Lines as Leah
1989 La nuit miraculeuse
2012 A Royal Affair as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
2026 Shelter as Prime Minister Fordham
2021 Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks as Jo Patterson
Soon Margot & Rudi
2027 National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer as Violet Venable
1998 Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle as Felicity Ormal
1988 Omnibus: Caryl Churchill as Player in extracts from 'Cloud 9' and 'Top Girls'

1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Margaret Winstanley
1985 Girls On Top ( 1 episode ) as R.S.C. Actress 3
1991 Performance ( 1 episode ) as Dorothy Maitland
1987 Inspector Morse ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Esther Martin
2002 Spooks ( 1 episode ) as Deep Throat
2001 Waking the Dead ( 2 episodes ) as Annie Keel
2009 Law & Order: UK ( 39 episodes ) as Natalie Chandler
2001 Messiah ( 3 episodes ) as Professor Robb
1998 Unfinished Business ( 12 episodes ) as Amy
1997 A Dance to the Music of Time ( 4 episodes ) as Mildred
2021 The Cleaner ( 1 episode ) as Lisa
2012 Call the Midwife ( 3 episodes ) as Sister Ursula
1987 A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery ( 10 episodes ) as Harriet Vane
2018 Patrick Melrose ( 1 episode ) as Princess Margaret
2020 Ted Lasso ( 5 episodes ) as Deborah Welton
2023 Silo ( 22 episodes ) as Martha Walker
2014 The Assets ( 8 episodes ) as Jeanne Vertefeuille
2017 Tate Britain's Great Art Walks ( 1 episode ) as Self
2020 Alan Bennett's Talking Heads ( 1 episode ) as Muriel
1991 Ashenden ( 1 episode ) as Giulia Lazzari
2013 Heading Out ( 2 episodes ) as Angela
1999 The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns ( 2 episodes ) as Queen Morag
2010 Downton Abbey ( 4 episodes ) as Lady Shackleton
1997 Arthouse ( 1 episode ) as Self
2023 Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant ( 4 episodes ) as Elsie Leach
2016 The Crown ( 6 episodes ) as Clemmie Churchill
2013 By Any Means ( 1 episode ) as Sally Walker
2009 Hunter ( 2 episodes ) as ACC Jenny Griffin
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Duchess
2012 Simon Schama's Shakespeare ( 2 episodes )
2015 Documentary Now! ( 1 episode ) as Edwina
2019 Curfew ( 8 episodes ) as Helen Newman
2008 10 Days to War ( 1 episode ) as Anne Campbell
2019 The Spanish Princess ( 8 episodes ) as Margaret Beaufort
2020 Belgravia ( 6 episodes ) as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
2018 Killing Eve ( 8 episodes ) as Dasha Duzran
2018 Succession ( 7 episodes ) as Lady Caroline Collingwood
2020 The End ( 10 episodes ) as Edie Henley
1997 Midsomer Murders ( 1 episode ) as Diana Davenport
1985 The Price ( 6 episodes ) as Frances Carr
2025 Brian and Maggie ( 2 episodes ) as Margaret Thatcher
2018 Black Earth Rising ( 2 episodes ) as Eve Ashby
1994 Hard Times ( 4 episodes ) as Rachel
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Amelia Cleverly
2022 This Is Going to Hurt ( 7 episodes ) as Veronique
2015 Wolf Hall ( 1 episode ) as Margaret Pole
1987 A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery ( 10 episodes ) as Harriet Vane
2006 The One Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2011 Black Mirror ( 1 episode ) as Judith Keyworth
2016 Flowers ( 5 episodes ) as Hylda
2015 London Spy ( 3 episodes ) as Claire
2025 Playing Gracie Darling ( 6 episodes ) as Pattie Grey
2008 Fairy Tales ( 1 episode ) as Charlotte Brooks
2000 Black Cab ( 1 episode ) as Jane
1979 Rebecca ( 1 episode ) as Clarice
2026 PONIES ( 4 episodes ) as Manya Caplan
2011 Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love ( 4 episodes ) as Isobel Balmerino
1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
1996 Dalziel and Pascoe ( 1 episode ) as Mary Waddell
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Jeannine Martin
2004 Who Do You Think You Are? ( 1 episode ) as Self
1991 The Men's Room ( 5 episodes ) as Charity Walton
2026 Youth ( 2 episodes ) as Livonia Arbor
1985 Theatre Night ( 1 episode ) as Sheila
1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Cathy Raine
1982 Timewatch ( 1 episode ) as Margaret Paston
1995 Secret Lives ( 1 episode ) as Marie Stopes (voice)
2001 My Uncle Silas ( 1 episode ) as Pamela Farrell
2004 London ( 1 episode ) as Virginia Woolf - Novelist
2004 New Tricks ( 1 episode ) as Madeline
2000 Doctors ( 4 episodes ) as Annie Fenton
1997 Trial & Retribution ( 1 episode ) as The Judge
2007 Five Days ( 2 episodes ) as Jenny Griffin
2008 The Palace ( 1 episode ) as Joanna Woodward
1989 Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1 episode ) as Miss Bulstrode
2008 Little Dorrit ( 4 episodes ) as Mrs Gowan
2014 Black Sails ( 3 episodes ) as Marion Guthrie
Soon Maya ( 6 episodes ) as Nancy
2020 The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama ( 2 episodes ) as Self

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