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Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 24, 1950
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- هریت والتر
Harriet Walter
1.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.3
Margaret Thatcher
Brian and Maggie
2025
5.4
Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
And Mrs.
2024
7.6
Self
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
8.0
Bernarda Alba
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
6.4
Elsie Leach
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
0.0
Self - Narrator (voice)
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
6.0
Shirley
On The Line
2023
8.2
Martha Walker
Silo
2023
6.4
Iris
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
5.3
Anna Marshall
Burial
2022
Credits
Brian and Maggie
as Margaret Thatcher
2025
7.3
And Mrs.
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
2024
5.4
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self
2024
7.6
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda Alba
2024
8.0
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
as Elsie Leach
2023
6.4
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023
0.0
On The Line
as Shirley
2023
6.0
Silo
as Martha Walker
2023
8.2
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Iris
2022
6.4
Burial
as Anna Marshall
2022
5.3
This Is Going to Hurt
as Veronique
2022
7.7
The Last Duel
as Nicole de Carrouges
2021
7.4
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Duchess of Marlborough
2021
0.0
The Cleaner
as Lisa
2021
7.0
Herself
as Peggy
2020
6.7
Ted Lasso
as Deborah
2020
8.4
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
as Muriel
2020
8.1
Belgravia
as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
2020
7.2
The End
as Edie Henley
2020
6.2
Rocketman
as Helen Piena
2019
7.3
The Spanish Princess
as Margaret Beaufort
2019
7.6
Curfew
as Helen Newman
2019
5.5
My Dinner with Hervé
as Baskin
2018
6.3
Black Earth Rising
as Eve Ashby
2018
6.7
Henry IV
as Henry IV
2018
0.0
Julius Caesar
as Brutus
2018
8.5
The Tempest
as Prospero
2018
0.0
Succession
as Lady Caroline Collingwood
2018
8.3
Patrick Melrose
as Princess Margaret
2018
7.5
Killing Eve
as Dasha Duzran
2018
8.0
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
as Self
2017
0.0
The Sense of an Ending
as Margaret Webster
2017
6.4
The Crown
as Clemmie Churchill
2016
8.2
Mindhorn
as Richard's Agent
2016
6.1
Denial
as Vera Reich
2016
6.9
Flowers
as Hylda
2016
7.3
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
2016
7.5
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Dr. Kalonia
2015
7.3
London Spy
as Claire
2015
7.0
London Spy
2015
7.0
Documentary Now!
as Edwina
2015
6.9
Man Up
as Fran Patterson
2015
6.6
Suite Française
as Viscountess Montmort
2015
7.3
Wolf Hall
as Margaret Pole
2015
7.5
🎬
The Mysterious Mr Webster
as Self - Interviewee
2014
6.0
The Assets
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
2014
7.0
By Any Means
as Sally Walker
2013
6.5
Heading Out
as Angela
2013
5.8
The Domino Effect
as Ann
2012
5.0
The Door
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
2012
0.0
The Wedding Video
as Alex
2012
5.4
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
0.0
A Royal Affair
as Augusta - Princess of Wales
2012
7.4
Call the Midwife
as Sister Ursula
2012
7.5
Black Mirror
as Judith Keyworth
2011
8.3
Downton Abbey
as Lady Shackleton
2010
8.1
From Time to Time
as Lady Gresham
2009
6.3
Chéri
as La Loupiote
2009
6.1
The Young Victoria
as Queen Adelaide
2009
7.2
Law & Order: UK
as Natalie Chandler
2009
6.9
A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Clare
2009
6.9
Hunter
as ACC Jenny Griffin
2009
7.3
Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
2009
6.5
Broken Lines
as Leah
2008
3.5
Ballet Shoes
as Dr. Smith
2008
6.4
10 Days to War
as Anne Campbell
2008
6.4
Fairy Tales
2008
0.0
Abraham's Point
as Pani Nemeth
2008
4.7
Atonement
as Emily Tallis
2007
7.6
Babel
as Lilly
2006
7.2
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.5
Chromophobia
as Penelope Aylesbury
2006
5.2
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Duchess
2004
7.7
🎬
London
as Virginia Woolf
2004
0.0
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as Mary Wollstonecraft
2003
8.7
Bright Young Things
as Lady Maitland
2003
6.3
🎬
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
2002
3.0
Spooks
as Deep Throat
2002
7.6
Villa Des Roses
as Olive Burrell
2002
5.3
My Uncle Silas
as Pamela Farrell
2001
7.0
Waking the Dead
as Annie Keel
2001
7.2
Messiah
as Professor Robb
2001
7.2
Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth
2001
6.6
Onegin
as Madame Larina
1999
6.1
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
as Queen Morag
1999
6.9
Bedrooms and Hallways
as Sybil
1998
6.1
The Governess
as Mrs. Cavendish
1998
5.9
🎬
Unfinished Business
1998
0.0
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Julia Comstock
1997
6.0
🎬
Arthouse
as Self
1997
0.0
A Dance to the Music of Time
as Mildred
1997
5.3
Midsomer Murders
as Margaret Winstanley
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Diana Davenport
1997
7.5
The Leading Man
as Liz Flett
1996
5.0
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.4
Sense and Sensibility
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
1995
7.4
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
as Charlotte
1994
2.0
Hard Times
as Rachel
1994
0.0
Hard Times
as Rachel
1994
7.0
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Narrator (voice)
1993
10.0
The Maitlands
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
1993
0.0
The Hour of the Pig
as Jeannine Martin
1993
6.2
🎬
Ashenden
as Giulia Lazzari
1991
6.0
Performance
as Dorothy Maitland
1991
6.0
They Never Slept
as Amelia Cleverly
1991
0.0
May Fools
as Lily
1990
6.9
🎬
Benefactors
1989
2.0
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
as Harriet Vane
1987
7.2
🎬
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
as Harriet Vane
1987
0.0
Inspector Morse
as Dr. Esther Martin
1987
7.8
Turtle Diary
as Harriet Sims
1985
6.5
The Good Father
as Emmy Hooper
1985
5.7
Girls On Top
as R.S.C. Actress 3
1985
4.8
The Price
as Frances Carr
1985
5.0
The Price
as Frances Carr
1985
0.0
Screen Two
as Amelia Cleverly
1985
6.8
🎬
Reflections
as Ottilie Garinger
1984
4.5
🎬
Amy
as Amy Johnson
1984
10.0
The Cherry Orchard
as Varya
1981
0.0
The Imitation Game
1980
7.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.1
🎬
Late in Summer
N/A
0.0