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.
128 acting credits
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Midsomer Murders
1997
Shelter
2026
Black Mirror
2011
The Crown
2016
Silo
2023
Call the Midwife
2012
Downton Abbey
2010
Succession
2018
The One Show
2006
Ted Lasso
2020
Spooks
2002
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Tony Awards
1956
Waking the Dead
2001
Inspector Morse
1987
Killing Eve
2018
Screen Two
1985
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Law & Order: UK
2009
Wolf Hall
2015
Performance
1991
Atonement
2007
The Spanish Princess
2019
Documentary Now!
2015
PONIES
2026
Patrick Melrose
2018
Sense and Sensibility
1995
The Cleaner
2021
Black Earth Rising
2018
The Last Duel
2021
Babel
2006
Messiah
2001
Flowers
2016
London Spy
2015
Rocketman
2019
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
Playing Gracie Darling
2025
Belgravia
2020
The End
2020
Girls On Top
1985
Curfew
2019
By Any Means
2013
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
Fairy Tales
2008
Arthouse
1997
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
The Assets
2014
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
Denial
2016
Man Up
2015
10 Days to War
2008
Suite Française
2015
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
The Young Victoria
2009
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
A Royal Affair
2012
Heading Out
2013
London
2004
Mindhorn
2016
Onegin
1999
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
Rebecca
1979
Ashenden
1991
The Leading Man
1996
Herself
2020
Bright Young Things
2003
Brian and Maggie
2025
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
Hard Times
1994
Ballet Shoes
2008
Hunter
2009
The Price
1985
May Fools
1990
Chromophobia
2006
My Dinner with Hervé
2018
Chéri
2009
The Governess
1998
The Sense of an Ending
2017
Black Cab
2000
And Mrs.
2024
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
Burial
2022
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
Unfinished Business
1998
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
The Good Father
1985
From Time to Time
2009
Hard Times
1994
Broken Lines
2008
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
Julius Caesar
2018
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
The Hour of the Pig
1993
The Domino Effect
2012
Henry IV
2018
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
Turtle Diary
1985
The Tempest
2018
Late in Summer
—
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
The Cherry Orchard
1981
The Wedding Video
2012
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
Amy
1984
Abraham's Point
2008
The Price
1985
They Never Slept
1991
Reflections
1984
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
Villa Des Roses
2002
On The Line
2023
Macbeth
2001
The Maitlands
1993
The Door
2012
The Imitation Game
1980
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
Benefactors
1989
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
Margot & Rudi
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La nuit miraculeuse
1989