Harriet Walter

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

Known For: Acting

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.

Filmography

2023

Silo as Martha Walker
On The Line as Shirley
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant as Elsie Leach
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat as Self - Narrator (voice)

2022

Burial as Anna Marshall
Your Christmas or Mine? as Iris
This Is Going to Hurt as Veronique

2021

The Last Duel as Nicole de Carrouges
The Cleaner as Lisa
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius as Duchess of Marlborough

2020

Ted Lasso as Deborah
Belgravia as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
Herself as Peggy
The End as Edie Henley
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Muriel

2019

The Spanish Princess as Margaret Beaufort
Rocketman as Helen Piena
Curfew as Helen Newman

2018

Succession as Lady Caroline Collingwood
Killing Eve as Dasha Duzran
The Tempest as Prospero
Henry IV as Henry IV
Patrick Melrose as Princess Margaret
My Dinner with Hervé as Baskin
Black Earth Rising as Eve Ashby
Julius Caesar as Brutus

2017

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
The Sense of an Ending as Margaret Webster

2016

The Crown as Clemmie Churchill
Mindhorn as Richard's Agent
Flowers as Hylda
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
Denial as Vera Reich

2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Dr. Kalonia
Wolf Hall as Margaret Pole
Suite Française as Viscountess Montmort
Documentary Now! as Edwina
Man Up as Fran Patterson
London Spy as Claire

2014

The Assets as Jeanne Vertefeuille
The Mysterious Mr Webster as Self - Interviewee

2013

By Any Means as Sally Walker
Heading Out as Angela

2012

Call the Midwife as Sister Ursula
The Door as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
The Wedding Video as Alex
The Domino Effect as Ann
A Royal Affair as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Simon Schama's Shakespeare

2011

Black Mirror as Judith Keyworth

2010

Downton Abbey as Lady Shackleton

2009

Law & Order: UK as Natalie Chandler
Chéri as La Loupiote
The Young Victoria as Queen Adelaide
From Time to Time as Lady Gresham
A Short Stay in Switzerland as Clare
Hunter as ACC Jenny Griffin
Morris: A Life with Bells On as Professor Compton Chamberlayne

2008

Broken Lines as Leah
Ballet Shoes as Dr. Smith
Abraham's Point as Pani Nemeth
10 Days to War as Anne Campbell
Fairy Tales as Charlotte Brooks

2007

Atonement as Emily Tallis

2006

The One Show as Self
Babel as Lilly
Chromophobia as Penelope Aylesbury

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Duchess
London as Virginia Woolf

2003

Bright Young Things as Lady Maitland
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster as Mary Wollstonecraft

2002

Spooks as Deep Throat
Villa Des Roses as Olive Burrell
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

2001

Waking the Dead as Annie Keel
Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
Messiah as Professor Robb
My Uncle Silas as Pamela Farrell

1999

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns as Queen Morag
Onegin as Madame Larina

1998

1997

Midsomer Murders as Margaret Winstanley
Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Julia Comstock
A Dance to the Music of Time as Mildred
Arthouse as Self

1996

Dalziel & Pascoe
The Leading Man as Liz Flett

1995

Sense and Sensibility as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

1994

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day as Charlotte
Hard Times as Rachel
Hard Times as Rachel

1993

The Maitlands as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
The Hour of the Pig as Jeannine Martin
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Narrator (voice)

1991

Performance as Dorothy Maitland
They Never Slept as Amelia Cleverly
Ashenden as Giulia Lazzari

1990

May Fools as Lily

1989

1987

Inspector Morse as Dr. Esther Martin
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery as Harriet Vane
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery as Harriet Vane

1985

Screen Two as Amelia Cleverly
Turtle Diary as Harriet Sims
The Good Father as Emmy Hooper
Girls On Top as R.S.C. Actress 3
The Price as Frances Carr
The Price as Frances Carr

1984

Reflections as Ottilie Garinger
Amy as Amy Johnson

1981

The Cherry Orchard as Varya

1980

The Imitation Game

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee