Harriet Walter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 24, 1950 (age 76)
- Birthplace
- 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Late in Summer
Movie
Margot & Rudi
Movie
Maya
TV · as Nancy · 6 eps
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
Movie · as Violet Venable
Shelter
Movie · as Prime Minister Fordham
PONIES
TV · as Manya Caplan · 4 eps
Youth
TV · as Livonia Arbor · 2 eps
Brian and Maggie
TV · as Margaret Thatcher · 2 eps
Playing Gracie Darling
TV · as Pattie Grey · 6 eps
And Mrs.
Movie · as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie · as Bernarda Alba
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
Movie · as Self
On The Line
Movie · as Shirley
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
Movie · as Self - Narrator (voice)
Silo
TV · as Martha Walker · 22 eps
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
TV · as Elsie Leach · 4 eps
Burial
Movie · as Anna Marshall
Your Christmas or Mine?
Movie · as Iris
This Is Going to Hurt
TV · as Veronique · 7 eps
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Movie · as Duchess of Marlborough
The Last Duel
Movie · as Nicole de Carrouges
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
Movie · as Jo Patterson
The Cleaner
TV · as Lisa · 1 ep
Herself
Movie · as Peggy
Ted Lasso
TV · as Deborah Welton · 5 eps
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV · as Muriel · 1 ep
Belgravia
TV · as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst · 6 eps
The End
TV · as Edie Henley · 10 eps
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Rocketman
Movie · as Helen Piena
Curfew
TV · as Helen Newman · 8 eps
The Spanish Princess
TV · as Margaret Beaufort · 8 eps
My Dinner with Hervé
Movie · as Baskin
Julius Caesar
Movie · as Brutus
Henry IV
Movie · as Henry IV
The Tempest
Movie · as Prospero
Patrick Melrose
TV · as Princess Margaret · 1 ep
Killing Eve
TV · as Dasha Duzran · 8 eps
Succession
TV · as Lady Caroline Collingwood · 7 eps
Black Earth Rising
TV · as Eve Ashby · 2 eps
The Sense of an Ending
Movie · as Margaret Webster
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Denial
Movie · as Vera Reich
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie · as Self - Performer
Mindhorn
Movie · as Richard's Agent
The Crown
TV · as Clemmie Churchill · 6 eps
Flowers
TV · as Hylda · 5 eps
Suite Française
Movie · as Viscountess Montmort
Man Up
Movie · as Fran Patterson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Movie · as Dr. Kalonia
Documentary Now!
TV · as Edwina · 1 ep
Wolf Hall
TV · as Margaret Pole · 1 ep
London Spy
TV · as Claire · 3 eps
The Mysterious Mr Webster
Movie · as Self - Interviewee
The Assets
TV · as Jeanne Vertefeuille · 8 eps
Black Sails
TV · as Marion Guthrie · 3 eps
Heading Out
TV · as Angela · 2 eps
By Any Means
TV · as Sally Walker · 1 ep
The Wedding Video
Movie · as Alex
The Domino Effect
Movie · as Ann
The Door
Movie · as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
A Royal Affair
Movie · as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Call the Midwife
TV · as Sister Ursula · 3 eps
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
TV · 2 eps
Black Mirror
TV · as Judith Keyworth · 1 ep
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
TV · as Isobel Balmerino · 4 eps
Downton Abbey
TV · as Lady Shackleton · 4 eps
Chéri
Movie · as La Loupiote
From Time to Time
Movie · as Lady Gresham
The Young Victoria
Movie · as Queen Adelaide
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Movie · as Clare
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Movie · as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Law & Order: UK
TV · as Natalie Chandler · 39 eps
Hunter
TV · as ACC Jenny Griffin · 2 eps
Ballet Shoes
Movie · as Dr. Smith
Abraham's Point
Movie · as Pani Nemeth
Broken Lines
Movie · as Leah
10 Days to War
TV · as Anne Campbell · 1 ep
Fairy Tales
TV · as Charlotte Brooks · 1 ep
The Palace
TV · as Joanna Woodward · 1 ep
Little Dorrit
TV · as Mrs Gowan · 4 eps
Atonement
Movie · as Emily Tallis
Five Days
TV · as Jenny Griffin · 2 eps
Babel
Movie · as Lilly
Chromophobia
Movie · as Penelope Aylesbury
The One Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV · as Duchess · 1 ep
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
London
TV · as Virginia Woolf - Novelist · 1 ep
New Tricks
TV · as Madeline · 1 ep
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Movie · as Mary Wollstonecraft
Bright Young Things
Movie · as Lady Maitland
Villa Des Roses
Movie · as Olive Burrell
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Movie · as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Spooks
TV · as Deep Throat · 1 ep
Macbeth
Movie · as Lady Macbeth
Waking the Dead
TV · as Annie Keel · 2 eps
Messiah
TV · as Professor Robb · 3 eps
My Uncle Silas
TV · as Pamela Farrell · 1 ep
Black Cab
TV · as Jane · 1 ep
Doctors
TV · as Annie Fenton · 4 eps
Onegin
Movie · as Madame Larina
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
TV · as Queen Morag · 2 eps
The Governess
Movie · as Mrs. Cavendish
Bedrooms and Hallways
Movie · as Sybil
Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
Movie · as Felicity Ormal
Unfinished Business
TV · as Amy · 12 eps
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Movie · as Julia Comstock
Midsomer Murders
TV · as Margaret Winstanley, Diana Davenport · 1 ep
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV · as Mildred · 4 eps
Arthouse
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Trial & Retribution
TV · as The Judge · 1 ep
The Leading Man
Movie · as Liz Flett
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV · as Mary Waddell · 1 ep
Sense and Sensibility
Movie · as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
Secret Lives
TV · as Marie Stopes (voice) · 1 ep
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Movie · as Charlotte
Hard Times
TV · as Rachel · 4 eps
The Hour of the Pig
Movie · as Jeannine Martin
The Maitlands
Movie · as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
They Never Slept
Movie · as Amelia Cleverly
Performance
TV · as Dorothy Maitland · 1 ep
Ashenden
TV · as Giulia Lazzari · 1 ep
The Men's Room
TV · as Charity Walton · 5 eps
May Fools
Movie · as Lily
Benefactors
Movie
La nuit miraculeuse
Movie
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV · as Miss Bulstrode · 1 ep
Omnibus: Caryl Churchill
Movie · as Player in extracts from 'Cloud 9' and 'Top Girls'
Inspector Morse
TV · as Dr. Esther Martin · 1 ep
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
TV · as Harriet Vane · 10 eps
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
TV · as Harriet Vane · 10 eps
The Good Father
Movie · as Emmy Hooper
Turtle Diary
Movie · as Harriet Sims
The Price
Movie · as Frances Carr
Girls On Top
TV · as R.S.C. Actress 3 · 1 ep
The Price
TV · as Frances Carr · 6 eps
Screen Two
TV · as Amelia Cleverly, Jeannine Martin · 1 ep
Theatre Night
TV · as Sheila · 1 ep
Reflections
Movie · as Ottilie Garinger
Amy
Movie · as Amy Johnson
Timewatch
TV · as Margaret Paston · 1 ep
The Cherry Orchard
Movie · as Varya
The Imitation Game
Movie · as Cathy Raine
Rebecca
TV · as Clarice · 1 ep
Play for Today
TV · as Cathy Raine · 1 ep
Tony Awards
TV · as Self - Nominee · 1 ep