Harriet Walter
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1950-09-24 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Harriet Walter
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).
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Acting
(2024)
And Mrs
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
(2024)
(2024)
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda Alba
(2023)
On The Line
as Shirley
(2023)
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
as Self - Narrator (voice)
(2022)
Burial
as Anna Marshall
(2022)
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Iris
(2021)
The Last Duel
as Nicole de Carrouges
(2021)
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Duchess of Marlborough
(2020)
Herself
as Peggy
(2019)
Rocketman
as Helen Piena
(2018)
My Dinner with Hervé
as Baskin
(2018)
Julius Caesar
as Brutus
(2018)
Henry IV
as Henry IV
(2018)
The Tempest
as Prospero
(2017)
The Sense of an Ending
as Margaret Webster
(2016)
Denial
as Vera Reich
(2016)
Mindhorn
as Richard's Agent
(2016)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
(2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Dr. Kalonia
(2015)
Man Up
as Fran Patterson
(2015)
Suite Française
as Viscountess Montmort
(2014)
The Mysterious Mr Webster
as Self - Interviewee
(2012)
A Royal Affair
as Augusta - Princess of Wales
(2012)
The Wedding Video
as Alex
(2012)
The Domino Effect
as Ann
(2012)
The Door
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
(2009)
The Young Victoria
as Queen Adelaide
(2009)
Chéri
as La Loupiote
(2009)
From Time to Time
as Lady Gresham
(2009)
A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Clare
(2009)
Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
(2008)
Ballet Shoes
as Dr. Smith
(2008)
Broken Lines
as Leah
(2008)
Abraham's Point
as Pani Nemeth
(2007)
Atonement
as Emily Tallis
(2006)
Babel
as Lilly
(2006)
Chromophobia
as Penelope Aylesbury
(2003)
Bright Young Things
as Lady Maitland
(2003)
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as Mary Wollstonecraft
(2002)
Villa Des Roses
as Olive Burrell
(2002)
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
(2001)
Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth
(1999)
Onegin
as Madame Larina
(1998)
The Governess
as Mrs. Cavendish
(1998)
Bedrooms and Hallways
as Sybil
(1997)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Julia Comstock
(1996)
The Leading Man
as Liz Flett
(1995)
Sense and Sensibility
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
(1994)
Hard Times
as Rachel
(1994)
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
as Charlotte
(1993)
The Hour of the Pig
as Jeannine Martin
(1993)
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Narrator (voice)
(1993)
The Maitlands
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
(1991)
They Never Slept
as Amelia Cleverly
(1990)
May Fools
as Lily
(1989)
(1985)
The Good Father
as Emmy Hooper
(1985)
Turtle Diary
as Harriet Sims
(1985)
The Price
as Frances Carr
(1984)
Amy
as Amy Johnson
(1984)
Reflections
as Ottilie Garinger
(1981)
The Cherry Orchard
as Varya
(1980)