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