Harriet Walter
Acting • Born 1950-09-24
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
128 credits
Babel
Movie • 2006
Lilly
May Fools
Movie • 1990
Lily
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Movie • 2003
Mary Wollstonecraft
Atonement
Movie • 2007
Emily Tallis
The Mysterious Mr Webster
Movie • 2014
Self - Interviewee
Burial
Movie • 2022
Anna Marshall
The Leading Man
Movie • 1996
Liz Flett
The Good Father
Movie • 1985
Emmy Hooper
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Movie • 2021
Duchess of Marlborough
Chromophobia
Movie • 2006
Penelope Aylesbury
The Hour of the Pig
Movie • 1993
Jeannine Martin
Villa Des Roses
Movie • 2002
Olive Burrell
On The Line
Movie • 2023
Shirley
The Governess
Movie • 1998
Mrs. Cavendish
Macbeth
Movie • 2001
Lady Macbeth
The Wedding Video
Movie • 2012
Alex
The Domino Effect
Movie • 2012
Ann
Chéri
Movie • 2009
La Loupiote
Reflections
Movie • 1984
Ottilie Garinger
They Never Slept
Movie • 1991
Amelia Cleverly
Benefactors
Movie • 1989
Suite Française
Movie • 2015
Viscountess Montmort
Ballet Shoes
Movie • 2008
Dr. Smith
Hard Times
Movie • 1994
Rachel
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Movie • 2002
Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Sense and Sensibility
Movie • 1995
Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
The Maitlands
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
Your Christmas or Mine?
Movie • 2022
Iris
The Imitation Game
Movie • 1980
And Mrs.
Movie • 2024
Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
Man Up
Movie • 2015
Fran Patterson
The Sense of an Ending
Movie • 2017
Margaret Webster
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Movie • 1993
Narrator (voice)
The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie • 2024
Bernarda Alba
Bright Young Things
Movie • 2003
Lady Maitland
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Movie • 2015
Dr. Kalonia
From Time to Time
Movie • 2009
Lady Gresham
The Young Victoria
Movie • 2009
Queen Adelaide
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
Movie • 2024
Self
Amy
Movie • 1984
Amy Johnson
Bedrooms and Hallways
Movie • 1998
Sybil
The Cherry Orchard
Movie • 1981
Varya
Denial
Movie • 2016
Vera Reich
Late in Summer
Movie
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Movie • 2016
Self - Performer
Turtle Diary
Movie • 1985
Harriet Sims
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Movie • 2009
Clare
Mindhorn
Movie • 2016
Richard's Agent
The Price
Movie • 1985
Frances Carr
My Dinner with Hervé
Movie • 2018
Baskin
Julius Caesar
Movie • 2018
Brutus
The Door
Movie • 2012
Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
Rocketman
Movie • 2019
Helen Piena
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Movie • 1997
Julia Comstock
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Movie • 2009
Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Abraham's Point
Movie • 2008
Pani Nemeth
The Last Duel
Movie • 2021
Nicole de Carrouges
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Movie • 1994
Charlotte
Onegin
Movie • 1999
Madame Larina
Henry IV
Movie • 2018
Henry IV
The Tempest
Movie • 2018
Prospero
Herself
Movie • 2020
Peggy
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
Movie • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
Broken Lines
Movie • 2008
Leah
La nuit miraculeuse
Movie • 1989
A Royal Affair
Movie • 2012
Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Shelter
Movie • 2026
Prime Minister Fordham
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
Movie • 2021
Jo Patterson
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Margaret Winstanley
Girls On Top
TV • 1985
R.S.C. Actress 3
Performance
TV • 1991
Dorothy Maitland
Dalziel & Pascoe
TV • 1996
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Dr. Esther Martin
Spooks
TV • 2002
Deep Throat
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Annie Keel
Law & Order: UK
TV • 2009
Natalie Chandler
Messiah
TV • 2001
Professor Robb
Unfinished Business
TV • 1998
A Dance to the Music of Time
TV • 1997
Mildred
The Cleaner
TV • 2021
Lisa
Call the Midwife
TV • 2012
Sister Ursula
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
TV • 1987
Harriet Vane
Patrick Melrose
TV • 2018
Princess Margaret
Ted Lasso
TV • 2020
Deborah
Silo
TV • 2023
Martha Walker
The Assets
TV • 2014
Jeanne Vertefeuille
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
TV • 2017
Self
London
TV • 2004
Virginia Woolf
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
TV • 2020
Muriel
Ashenden
TV • 1991
Giulia Lazzari
Heading Out
TV • 2013
Angela
My Uncle Silas
TV • 2001
Pamela Farrell
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
TV • 1999
Queen Morag
Downton Abbey
TV • 2010
Lady Shackleton
Arthouse
TV • 1997
Self
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
TV • 2023
Elsie Leach
The Crown
TV • 2016
Clemmie Churchill
By Any Means
TV • 2013
Sally Walker
Hunter
TV • 2009
ACC Jenny Griffin
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Duchess
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
TV • 2012
Documentary Now!
TV • 2015
Edwina
Curfew
TV • 2019
Helen Newman
10 Days to War
TV • 2008
Anne Campbell
The Spanish Princess
TV • 2019
Margaret Beaufort
Belgravia
TV • 2020
Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
Killing Eve
TV • 2018
Dasha Duzran
Succession
TV • 2018
Lady Caroline Collingwood
The End
TV • 2020
Edie Henley
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Diana Davenport
The Price
TV • 1985
Frances Carr
Brian and Maggie
TV • 2025
Margaret Thatcher
Black Earth Rising
TV • 2018
Eve Ashby
Hard Times
TV • 1994
Rachel
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Amelia Cleverly
This Is Going to Hurt
TV • 2022
Veronique
Wolf Hall
TV • 2015
Margaret Pole
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
TV • 1987
Harriet Vane
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Black Mirror
TV • 2011
Judith Keyworth
Flowers
TV • 2016
Hylda
London Spy
TV • 2015
Claire
Playing Gracie Darling
TV • 2025
Pattie Grey
Fairy Tales
TV • 2008
Charlotte Brooks
Black Cab
TV • 2000
Jane
Rebecca
TV • 1979
Clarice
PONIES
TV • 2026
Manya Caplan
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
TV • 2011
Isobel Balmerino