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: Acting

Born: London, England, UK, 1950-09-24

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1980	The Imitation Game		71
2	1981	The Cherry Orchard	Varya	0
3	1984	Amy	Amy Johnson	100
4	1984	Reflections	Ottilie Garinger	45
5	1985	The Price	Frances Carr	0
6	1985	The Good Father	Emmy Hooper	57
7	1985	Turtle Diary	Harriet Sims	66
8	1989	Benefactors		20
9	1990	May Fools	Lily	69
10	1991	They Never Slept	Amelia Cleverly	0
11	1993	The Hour of the Pig	Jeannine Martin	62
12	1993	The Maitlands	Mrs. Dorothy Maitland	0
13	1993	Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II	Narrator (voice)	100
14	1994	Hard Times	Rachel	70
15	1994	A Man You Don't Meet Every Day	Charlotte	20
16	1995	Sense and Sensibility	Fanny Ferrars Dashwood	74
17	1996	The Leading Man	Liz Flett	52
18	1997	Keep the Aspidistra Flying	Julia Comstock	60
19	1998	The Governess	Mrs. Cavendish	59
20	1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	Sybil	62
21	1999	Onegin	Madame Larina	62
22	2001	Macbeth	Lady Macbeth	66
23	2002	Villa Des Roses	Olive Burrell	53
24	2002	George Eliot: A Scandalous Life	Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot	30
25	2003	Bright Young Things	Lady Maitland	63
26	2003	Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster	Mary Wollstonecraft	87
27	2006	Chromophobia	Penelope Aylesbury	53
28	2006	Babel	Lilly	72
29	2007	Atonement	Emily Tallis	76
30	2008	Abraham's Point	Pani Nemeth	40
31	2008	Ballet Shoes	Dr. Smith	64
32	2008	Broken Lines	Leah	60
33	2009	Morris: A Life with Bells On	Professor Compton Chamberlayne	65
34	2009	A Short Stay in Switzerland	Clare	69
35	2009	The Young Victoria	Queen Adelaide	72
36	2009	Chéri	La Loupiote	61
37	2009	From Time to Time	Lady Gresham	63
38	2012	A Royal Affair	Augusta - Princess of Wales	74
39	2012	The Wedding Video	Alex	54
40	2012	The Door	Woman with Sorrowful Eyes	0
41	2012	The Domino Effect	Ann	50
42	2014	The Mysterious Mr Webster	Self - Interviewee	60
43	2015	Suite Française	Viscountess Montmort	73
44	2015	Man Up	Fran Patterson	66
45	2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Dr. Kalonia	73
46	2016	Shakespeare Live! From the RSC	Self - Performer	75
47	2016	Denial	Vera Reich	69
48	2016	Mindhorn	Richard's Agent	61
49	2017	The Sense of an Ending	Margaret Webster	64
50	2018	Julius Caesar	Brutus	85
51	2018	Henry IV	Henry IV	0
52	2018	The Tempest	Prospero	0
53	2018	My Dinner with Hervé	Baskin	63
54	2019	Rocketman	Helen Piena	73
55	2020	Herself	Peggy	68
56	2021	Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius	Duchess of Marlborough	0
57	2021	The Last Duel	Nicole de Carrouges	74
58	2022	Burial	Anna Marshall	53
59	2022	Your Christmas or Mine?	Iris	64
60	2023	On The Line	Shirley	60
61	2023	Osborne House: A Royal Retreat	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
62	2024	National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba	Bernarda Alba	80
63	2024	The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee	Self	77
64	2024	And Mrs	Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn	55
65		Late in Summer		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Nominee	46
2	1985	Screen Two	Amelia Cleverly	68
3	1985	The Price	Frances Carr	50
4	1985	Girls On Top	R.S.C. Actress 3	48
5	1987	Inspector Morse	Dr. Esther Martin	78
6	1987	A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery	Harriet Vane	0
7	1987	A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery	Harriet Vane	72
8	1991	Performance	Dorothy Maitland	60
9	1991	Ashenden	Giulia Lazzari	60
10	1994	Hard Times	Rachel	0
11	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
12	1997	Midsomer Murders	Margaret Winstanley	75
13	1997	Midsomer Murders	Diana Davenport	75
14	1997	A Dance to the Music of Time	Mildred	53
15	1997	Arthouse	Self	0
16	1998	Unfinished Business		0
17	1999	The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns	Queen Morag	69
18	2001	Messiah	Professor Robb	72
19	2001	Waking the Dead	Annie Keel	73
20	2001	My Uncle Silas	Pamela Farrell	70
21	2002	Spooks	Deep Throat	76
22	2004	London	Virginia Woolf	0
23	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Duchess	76
24	2005	Doctor Who	Jo Patterson	75
25	2008	Fairy Tales		0
26	2008	10 Days to War	Anne Campbell	60
27	2009	Hunter	ACC Jenny Griffin	73
28	2009	Law & Order: UK	Natalie Chandler	68
29	2010	Downton Abbey	Lady Shackleton	81
30	2012	Call the Midwife	Sister Ursula	75
31	2012	Simon Schama's Shakespeare		0
32	2013	Heading Out	Angela	59
33	2013	By Any Means	Sally Walker	65
34	2014	The Assets	Jeanne Vertefeuille	69
35	2015	Wolf Hall	Margaret Pole	75
36	2015	Documentary Now!	Edwina	70
37	2015	London Spy	Claire	70
38	2015	London Spy		70
39	2016	The Crown	Clemmie Churchill	82
40	2017	Tate Britain's Great Art Walks	Self	0
41	2018	Killing Eve	Dasha Duzran	80
42	2018	Patrick Melrose	Princess Margaret	75
43	2018	Succession	Lady Caroline Collingwood	83
44	2018	Black Earth Rising	Eve Ashby	68
45	2019	Curfew	Helen Newman	56
46	2019	The Spanish Princess	Margaret Beaufort	76
47	2020	The End	Edie Henley	62
48	2020	Belgravia	Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst	71
49	2020	Alan Bennett's Talking Heads	Muriel	81
50	2020	Ted Lasso	Deborah	84
51	2021	The Cleaner	Lisa	70
52	2022	This Is Going to Hurt	Veronique	77
53	2023	Silo	Martha Walker	82
54	2023	Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant	Elsie Leach	63
55	2025	Brian and Maggie	Margaret Thatcher	75