
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Playing Gracie Darling as
- 2024 · And Mrs. as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
- 2024 · The House of Bernarda Alba as Bernarda Alba
- 2023 · Silo as Martha Walker
- 2022 · This Is Going to Hurt as Veronique
- 2021 · The Last Duel as Nicole de Carrouges
- 2021 · Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius as Duchess of Marlborough
- 2021 · The Cleaner as Lisa
- 2020 · Ted Lasso as Deborah
- 2020 · Belgravia as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
- 2019 · Rocketman as Helen Piena
- 2019 · The Spanish Princess as Margaret Beaufort
- 2018 · My Dinner with Hervé as Baskin
- 2018 · Black Earth Rising as Eve Ashby
- 2018 · The Tempest as Prospero
- 2018 · Henry IV as Henry IV
- 2018 · Succession as Lady Caroline Collingwood
- 2018 · Patrick Melrose as Princess Margaret
- 2018 · Killing Eve as Dasha Duzran
- 2016 · The Crown as Clemmie Churchill
- 2016 · Mindhorn as Richard's Agent
- 2016 · Flowers as Hylda
- 2016 · Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
- 2015 · Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Dr. Kalonia
- 2015 · London Spy as Claire
- 2015 · Documentary Now! as Edwina
- 2015 · Suite Française as Viscountess Montmort
- 2015 · Wolf Hall as Margaret Pole
- 2014 · The Mysterious Mr Webster as Self - Interviewee
- 2013 · By Any Means as Sally Walker
- 2012 · Call the Midwife as Sister Ursula
- 2011 · Black Mirror as Judith Keyworth
- 2010 · Downton Abbey as Lady Shackleton
- 2009 · From Time to Time as Lady Gresham
- 2009 · The Young Victoria as Queen Adelaide
- 2009 · Law & Order: UK as Natalie Chandler
- 2008 · Abraham's Point as Pani Nemeth
- 2007 · Atonement as Emily Tallis
- 2006 · Babel as Lilly
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Duchess
- 2003 · Bright Young Things as Lady Maitland
- 2002 · Spooks as Deep Throat
- 2002 · Villa Des Roses as Olive Burrell
- 2001 · Waking the Dead as Annie Keel
- 2001 · Messiah as Professor Robb
- 2001 · Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
- 1999 · Onegin as Madame Larina
- 1999 · The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns as Queen Morag
- 1997 · Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Julia Comstock
- 1997 · A Dance to the Music of Time as Mildred
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Margaret Winstanley
- 1997 · Midsomer Murders as Diana Davenport
- 1996 · Dalziel & Pascoe as
- 1995 · Sense and Sensibility as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
- 1994 · Hard Times as Rachel
- 1991 · Performance as Dorothy Maitland
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Dr. Esther Martin
- 1985 · Girls On Top as R.S.C. Actress 3
- 1985 · Screen Two as Amelia Cleverly
- 1956 · Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Future · Late in Summer as
- 2025 · Brian and Maggie as Margaret Thatcher
- 2024 · The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee as Self
- 2023 · Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant as Elsie Leach
- 2023 · Osborne House: A Royal Retreat as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · On The Line as Shirley
- 2022 · Your Christmas or Mine? as Iris
- 2022 · Burial as Anna Marshall
- 2020 · Herself as Peggy
- 2020 · Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Muriel
- 2020 · The End as Edie Henley
- 2019 · Curfew as Helen Newman
- 2018 · Julius Caesar as Brutus
- 2017 · Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
- 2017 · The Sense of an Ending as Margaret Webster
- 2016 · Denial as Vera Reich
- 2015 · Man Up as Fran Patterson
- 2014 · The Assets as Jeanne Vertefeuille
- 2013 · Heading Out as Angela
- 2012 · The Domino Effect as Ann
- 2012 · The Door as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
- 2012 · The Wedding Video as Alex
- 2012 · Simon Schama's Shakespeare as
- 2012 · A Royal Affair as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
- 2009 · Chéri as La Loupiote
- 2009 · A Short Stay in Switzerland as Clare
- 2009 · Hunter as ACC Jenny Griffin
- 2009 · Morris: A Life with Bells On as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
- 2008 · Broken Lines as Leah
- 2008 · Ballet Shoes as Dr. Smith
- 2008 · 10 Days to War as Anne Campbell
- 2008 · Fairy Tales as
- 2006 · Chromophobia as Penelope Aylesbury
- 2004 · London as Virginia Woolf
- 2003 · Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster as Mary Wollstonecraft
- 2002 · George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
- 2001 · My Uncle Silas as Pamela Farrell
- 1998 · Bedrooms and Hallways as Sybil
- 1998 · The Governess as Mrs. Cavendish
- 1998 · Unfinished Business as
- 1997 · Arthouse as Self
- 1996 · The Leading Man as Liz Flett
- 1994 · A Man You Don't Meet Every Day as Charlotte
- 1994 · Hard Times as Rachel
- 1993 · Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Narrator (voice)
- 1993 · The Maitlands as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
- 1993 · The Hour of the Pig as Jeannine Martin
- 1991 · Ashenden as Giulia Lazzari
- 1991 · They Never Slept as Amelia Cleverly
- 1990 · May Fools as Lily
- 1989 · La nuit miraculeuse as
- 1989 · Benefactors as
- 1987 · A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery as Harriet Vane
- 1987 · A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery as Harriet Vane
- 1985 · Turtle Diary as Harriet Sims
- 1985 · The Good Father as Emmy Hooper
- 1985 · The Price as Frances Carr
- 1985 · The Price as Frances Carr
- 1984 · Reflections as Ottilie Garinger
- 1984 · Amy as Amy Johnson
- 1981 · The Cherry Orchard as Varya
- 1980 · The Imitation Game as