Harriet Walter
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-09-24
- Place of birth:
- London, England, UK
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
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
Youth
Shelter
PONIES
Playing Gracie Darling
Brian and Maggie
And Mrs.
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
On The Line
Silo
Your Christmas or Mine?
Burial
This Is Going to Hurt
The Last Duel
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
The Cleaner
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
Herself
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
Ted Lasso
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Belgravia
The End
Rocketman
The Spanish Princess
Curfew
My Dinner with Hervé
Black Earth Rising
Julius Caesar
Henry IV
The Tempest
Succession
Patrick Melrose
Killing Eve
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
The Sense of an Ending
The Crown
Mindhorn
Denial
Flowers
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
London Spy
Documentary Now!
Man Up
Suite Française
Wolf Hall
The Mysterious Mr Webster
Black Sails
The Assets
By Any Means
Heading Out
The Domino Effect
The Door
The Wedding Video
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
A Royal Affair
Call the Midwife
Black Mirror
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
Downton Abbey
From Time to Time
Chéri
The Young Victoria
Law & Order: UK
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Hunter
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Little Dorrit
Broken Lines
Ballet Shoes
10 Days to War
The Palace
Fairy Tales
Abraham's Point
Atonement
Five Days
Babel
The One Show
Chromophobia
Agatha Christie's Marple
Who Do You Think You Are?
London
New Tricks
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Bright Young Things
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Spooks
Villa Des Roses
My Uncle Silas
Waking the Dead
Messiah
Macbeth
Black Cab
Doctors
Onegin
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
Bedrooms and Hallways
The Governess
Unfinished Business
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Arthouse
Trial & Retribution
A Dance to the Music of Time
Midsomer Murders
The Leading Man
Dalziel and Pascoe
Sense and Sensibility
Secret Lives
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Hard Times
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
The Maitlands
The Hour of the Pig
Ashenden
Performance
The Men's Room
They Never Slept
May Fools
La nuit miraculeuse
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Benefactors
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Inspector Morse
Turtle Diary
The Good Father
Girls On Top
Theatre Night
The Price
The Price
Screen Two
Reflections
Amy
Timewatch
The Cherry Orchard
The Imitation Game
Rebecca
Play for Today
Tony Awards
Late in Summer
Margot & Rudi
Maya