Harriet Walter
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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And Mrs
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as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
as Self
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
as Bernarda Alba
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
as Elsie Leach
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
On The Line
2023
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Silo
2023
as Martha Walker
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
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Burial
2022
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This Is Going to Hurt
2022
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The Last Duel
2021
as Nicole de Carrouges
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
as Duchess of Marlborough
The Cleaner
2021
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Herself
2020
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Ted Lasso
2020
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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
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Belgravia
2020
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The End
2020
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Rocketman
2019
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The Spanish Princess
2019
as Margaret Beaufort
Curfew
2019
as Helen Newman
My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Baskin
Black Earth Rising
2018
as Eve Ashby
Julius Caesar
2018
as Brutus
Henry IV
2018
as Henry IV
The Tempest
2018
as Prospero
Succession
2018
as Lady Caroline Collingwood
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Princess Margaret
Killing Eve
2018
as Dasha Duzran
The Secret Life of Flowers
2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self
The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Margaret Webster
The Crown
2016
as Clemmie Churchill
Mindhorn
2016
as Richard's Agent
Denial
2016
as Vera Reich
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Dr. Kalonia
London Spy
2015
as Claire
London Spy
2015
Documentary Now!
2015
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Man Up
2015
as Fran
Suite Française
2015
as Viscountess Montmort
Wolf Hall
2015
as Lady Margaret Pole
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
as Self - Interviewee
The Assets
2014
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
By Any Means
2013
as Sally Walker
Heading Out
2013
as Angela
The Domino Effect
2012
as Ann
The Door
2012
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
The Wedding Video
2012
as Alex
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
A Royal Affair
2012
as Augusta - Princess of Wales
Call the Midwife
2012
as Sister Ursula
Downton Abbey
2010
as Lady Shackleton
From Time to Time
2009
as Lady Gresham
Chéri
2009
as La Loupiote
The Young Victoria
2009
as Queen Adelaide
Law & Order: UK
2009
as Natalie Chandler
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
as Clare
Hunter
2009
as ACC Jenny Griffin
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Ballet Shoes
2008
as Dr. Smith
10 Days to War
2008
as Anne Campbell
Fairy Tales
2008
Abraham's Point
2008
as Pani Nemeth
Atonement
2007
as Emily Tallis
Babel
2006
as Lilly
Chromophobia
2006
as Penelope Aylesbury
Doctor Who
2005
as Jo Patterson
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Duchess
London
2004
as Virginia Woolf
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
as Mary Wollstonecraft
Bright Young Things
2003
as Lady Maitland
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Spooks
2002
as Deep Throat
Villa Des Roses
2002
as Olive Burrell
My Uncle Silas
2001
as Pamela Farrell
Waking the Dead
2001
as Annie Keel
Messiah
2001
as Professor Robb
Macbeth
2001
as Lady Macbeth
Onegin
1999
as Madame Larina
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
as Queen Morag
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
as Sybil
The Governess
1998
as Mrs. Cavendish
Unfinished Business
1998
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Julia Comstock
Arthouse
1997
as Self
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
as Mildred
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Margaret Winstanley
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Diana Davenport
The Leading Man
1996
as Liz Flett
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
as Charlotte
Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Narrator (voice)
The Maitlands
1993
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Jeannine Martin
Ashenden
1991
as Giulia Lazzari
Performance
1991
as Dorothy Maitland
They Never Slept
1991
as Amelia Cleverly
May Fools
1990
as Lily
Benefactors
1989
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Harriet Vane
Inspector Morse
1987
as Dr. Esther Martin
Turtle Diary
1985
as Harriet Sims
The Good Father
1985
as Emmy Hooper
Girls On Top
1985
as R.S.C. Actress 3
The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
Screen Two
1985
as Amelia Cleverly
Reflections
1984
as Ottilie Garinger
Amy
1984
as Amy Johnson
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Varya
The Imitation Game
1980
Late in Summer
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