Harriet Walter
Age: N/A | From: London, England, UK
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 46
TV Involvements: 36
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Midsomer Murders
(1997) Diana Davenport
Doctor Who
(2005) Jo Patterson
Downton Abbey
(2010) Lady Shackleton
The Crown
(2016) Clemmie Churchill
Silo
(2023) Martha Walker
Agatha Christie's Marple
(2004) Duchess
Call the Midwife
(2012) Sister Ursula
Spooks
(2002) Deep ThroatActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn | |
| Bernarda Alba | ||
| Self | ||
| 2023 | Elsie Leach | |
| Shirley | ||
| Martha Walker | ||
| 2022 | Iris | |
| Anna Marshall | ||
| Veronique | ||
| 2021 | Nicole de Carrouges | |
| Duchess of Marlborough | ||
| Lisa | ||
| 2020 | Peggy | |
| Deborah | ||
| Muriel | ||
| Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst | ||
| Edie Henley | ||
| 2019 | Helen Piena | |
| Margaret Beaufort | ||
| Helen Newman | ||
| 2018 | Baskin | |
| Eve Ashby | ||
| Brutus | ||
| Henry IV | ||
| Prospero | ||
| Lady Caroline Collingwood | ||
| Princess Margaret | ||
| Dasha Duzran | ||
| 2017 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| Margaret Webster | ||
| 2016 | Clemmie Churchill | |
| Richard's Agent | ||
| Vera Reich | ||
| Self - Performer | ||
| 2015 | Dr. Kalonia | |
| Claire | ||
| N/A | ||
| Edwina | ||
| Fran | ||
| Viscountess Montmort | ||
| 2014 | Self - Interviewee | |
| Jeanne Vertefeuille | ||
| 2013 | Sally Walker | |
| Angela | ||
| 2012 | Ann | |
| Woman with Sorrowful Eyes | ||
| Alex | ||
| N/A | ||
| Augusta - Princess of Wales | ||
| Sister Ursula | ||
| 2010 | Lady Shackleton | |
| Lady Gresham | ||
| 2009 | La Loupiote | |
| Queen Adelaide | ||
| Natalie Chandler | ||
| Clare | ||
| ACC Jenny Griffin | ||
| Professor Compton Chamberlayne | ||
| 2008 | Dr. Smith | |
| Anne Campbell | ||
| N/A | ||
| Pani Nemeth | ||
| 2007 | Emily Tallis | |
| 2006 | Lilly | |
| Penelope Aylesbury | ||
| 2005 | Jo Patterson | |
| 2004 | Duchess | |
| Virginia Woolf | ||
| 2003 | Mary Wollstonecraft | |
| Lady Maitland | ||
| 2002 | Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot | |
| Deep Throat | ||
| Olive Burrell | ||
| 2001 | Pamela Farrell | |
| Annie Keel | ||
| Professor Robb | ||
| Lady Macbeth | ||
| 1999 | Madame Larina | |
| Queen Morag | ||
| Queen Morag | ||
| 1998 | Sybil | |
| Mrs. Cavendish | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1997 | Julia Comstock | |
| Self | ||
| Mildred | ||
| Margaret Winstanley | ||
| Diana Davenport | ||
| 1996 | Liz Flett | |
| N/A | ||
| 1995 | Fanny Ferrars Dashwood | |
| 1994 | Charlotte | |
| Rachel | ||
| Rachel | ||
| 1993 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Mrs. Dorothy Maitland | ||
| Jeannine Martin | ||
| 1991 | Giulia Lazzari | |
| Dorothy Maitland | ||
| Amelia Cleverly | ||
| 1990 | Lily | |
| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1987 | Harriet Vane | |
| Dr. Esther Martin | ||
| 1985 | Harriet Sims | |
| Emmy Hooper | ||
| R.S.C. Actress 3 | ||
| Frances Carr | ||
| Frances Carr | ||
| 1984 | Ottilie Garinger | |
| Amy Johnson | ||
| 1981 | Varya | |
| 1980 | N/A | |
| Margaret Thatcher | ||
| N/A | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
