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
2025
- Playing Gracie Darling as Pattie Grey
- Brian and Maggie as Margaret Thatcher
2024
- And Mrs. as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
- The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee as Self
- National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba as Bernarda Alba
2023
- Silo as Martha Walker
- Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant as Elsie Leach
- On The Line as Shirley
- Osborne House: A Royal Retreat as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
- This Is Going to Hurt as Veronique
- Your Christmas or Mine? as Iris
- Burial as Anna Marshall
2021
- The Last Duel as Nicole de Carrouges
- The Cleaner as Lisa
- Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks as Jo Patterson
- Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius as Duchess of Marlborough
2020
- Ted Lasso as Deborah
- Belgravia as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
- The End as Edie Henley
- Alan Bennett's Talking Heads as Muriel
- Herself as Peggy
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
- Patrick Melrose as Princess Margaret
- Black Earth Rising as Eve Ashby
- My Dinner with Hervé as Baskin
- Julius Caesar as Brutus
- Henry IV as Henry IV
- The Tempest as Prospero
2017
- The Sense of an Ending as Margaret Webster
- Tate Britain's Great Art Walks as Self
2016
- The Crown as Clemmie Churchill
- Flowers as Hylda
- Denial as Vera Reich
- Mindhorn as Richard's Agent
- Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer
2015
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Dr. Kalonia
- Wolf Hall as Margaret Pole
- Documentary Now! as Edwina
- London Spy as Claire
- Suite Française as Viscountess Montmort
- Man Up as Fran Patterson
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
- A Royal Affair as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
- The Domino Effect as Ann
- Simon Schama's Shakespeare
- The Wedding Video as Alex
- The Door as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
2011
- Black Mirror as Judith Keyworth
- Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love as Isobel Balmerino
2010
- Downton Abbey as Lady Shackleton
2009
- Law & Order: UK as Natalie Chandler
- The Young Victoria as Queen Adelaide
- Chéri as La Loupiote
- Hunter as ACC Jenny Griffin
- From Time to Time as Lady Gresham
- A Short Stay in Switzerland as Clare
- Morris: A Life with Bells On as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
2008
- Fairy Tales as Charlotte Brooks
- 10 Days to War as Anne Campbell
- Ballet Shoes as Dr. Smith
- Broken Lines as Leah
- Abraham's Point as Pani Nemeth
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
- Messiah as Professor Robb
- Macbeth as Lady Macbeth
2000
- Black Cab as Jane
1999
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns as Queen Morag
- Onegin as Madame Larina
1998
- The Governess as Mrs. Cavendish
- Unfinished Business
- Bedrooms and Hallways as Sybil
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Margaret Winstanley
- Arthouse as Self
- A Dance to the Music of Time as Mildred
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Julia Comstock
1996
- Dalziel and Pascoe as Mary Waddell
- The Leading Man as Liz Flett
1995
- Sense and Sensibility as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
1994
- Hard Times as Rachel
- Hard Times as Rachel
- A Man You Don't Meet Every Day as Charlotte
1993
- The Hour of the Pig as Jeannine Martin
- The Maitlands as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
- Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Narrator (voice)
1991
- Performance as Dorothy Maitland
- Ashenden as Giulia Lazzari
- They Never Slept as Amelia Cleverly
1990
- May Fools as Lily
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
- Girls On Top as R.S.C. Actress 3
- The Price as Frances Carr
- The Good Father as Emmy Hooper
- Turtle Diary as Harriet Sims
- The Price as Frances Carr
1984
- Amy as Amy Johnson
- Reflections as Ottilie Garinger
1981
- The Cherry Orchard as Varya
1980
1979
- Rebecca as Clarice
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee