Acting
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies with Harriet Walter
Shelter
2026
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Atonement
2007
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Babel
2006
The Last Duel
2021
Rocketman
2019
Ballet Shoes
2008
Chéri
2009
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
Suite Française
2015
A Royal Affair
2012
Man Up
2015
The Young Victoria
2009
Chromophobia
2006
Herself
2020
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
Denial
2016
Onegin
1999
The Leading Man
1996
Mindhorn
2016
Bright Young Things
2003
The Sense of an Ending
2017
And Mrs.
2024
The Good Father
1985
The Hour of the Pig
1993
Turtle Diary
1985
My Dinner with Hervé
2018
The Maitlands
1993
May Fools
1990
The Governess
1998
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
From Time to Time
2009
Benefactors
1989
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
Late in Summer
Broken Lines
2008
Margot & Rudi
Julius Caesar
2018
The Wedding Video
2012
Burial
2022
They Never Slept
1991
On The Line
2023
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
Hard Times
1994
The Tempest
2018
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
The Door
2012
Henry IV
2018
Abraham's Point
2008
Villa Des Roses
2002
The Price
1985
Macbeth
2001
The Domino Effect
2012
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
The Cherry Orchard
1981
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
Brian and Maggie
2025
The Imitation Game
1980
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
Amy
1984
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
Reflections
1984
TV Shows with Harriet Walter
Silo
2023
Midsomer Murders
1997
Black Mirror
2011
The Crown
2016
Downton Abbey
2010
Ted Lasso
2020
Succession
2018
Call the Midwife
2012
Screen Two
1985
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Spooks
2002
Tony Awards
1956
The One Show
2006
Killing Eve
2018
Waking the Dead
2001
Inspector Morse
1987
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Performance
1991
Law & Order: UK
2009
Wolf Hall
2015
Documentary Now!
2015
The Spanish Princess
2019
PONIES
2026
Patrick Melrose
2018
The Cleaner
2021
Black Earth Rising
2018
London Spy
2015
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
Flowers
2016
Belgravia
2020
The End
2020
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
Messiah
2001
Black Cab
2000
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
Playing Gracie Darling
2025
The Assets
2014
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
Rebecca
1979
By Any Means
2013
Heading Out
2013
Girls On Top
1985
10 Days to War
2008
Arthouse
1997
Fairy Tales
2008
Curfew
2019
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Brian and Maggie
2025
London
2004
Hunter
2009
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
Hard Times
1994
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
Ashenden
1991
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
The Price
1985
Unfinished Business
1998
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012