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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Lilly

Babel

Lily

Milou en Mai

Mary Wollstonecraft

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

Emily Tallis

Atonement

Self - Interviewee

The Mysterious Mr Webster

Anna Marshall

Burial

Liz Flett

The Leading Man

Emmy Hooper

The Good Father

Duchess of Marlborough

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

Penelope Aylesbury

Chromophobia

Jeannine Martin

The Hour of the Pig

Olive Burrell

Villa Des Roses

Shirley

On The Line

Mrs. Cavendish

The Governess

Lady Macbeth

Macbeth

Alex

The Wedding Video

Ann

The Domino Effect

La Loupiote

Chéri

Ottilie Garinger

Reflections

Amelia Cleverly

They Never Slept

Benefactors

Viscountess Montmort

Suite Française

Dr. Smith

Ballet Shoes

Rachel

Hard Times

Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

Sense and Sensibility

Mrs. Dorothy Maitland

The Maitlands

Iris

Your Christmas or Mine?

The Imitation Game

Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn

And Mrs.

Fran Patterson

Man Up

Margaret Webster

The Sense of an Ending

Narrator (voice)

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

Lady Maitland

Bright Young Things

Dr. Kalonia

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Lady Gresham

From Time to Time

Queen Adelaide

The Young Victoria

Self

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

Amy Johnson

Amy

Sybil

Bedrooms and Hallways

Varya

The Cherry Orchard

Vera Reich

Denial

Late in Summer

Self - Performer

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Harriet Sims

Turtle Diary

Clare

A Short Stay in Switzerland

Richard's Agent

Mindhorn

Frances Carr

The Price

Baskin

My Dinner with Hervé

Brutus

Julius Caesar

Woman with Sorrowful Eyes

The Door

Helen Piena

Rocketman

Julia Comstock

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Professor Compton Chamberlayne

Morris: A Life with Bells On

Pani Nemeth

Abraham's Point

Nicole de Carrouges

The Last Duel

Charlotte

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

Madame Larina

Onegin

Henry IV

Henry IV

Prospero

The Tempest

Peggy

Herself

Self - Narrator (voice)

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat

Leah

Broken Lines

La nuit miraculeuse

Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales

En kongelig affære