Harriet Walter
Acting
Born 1950-09-24
London, England, UK
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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).
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Filmography
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Silo
Ted Lasso
Midsomer Murders
Shelter
Black Mirror
Downton Abbey
The Crown
Call the Midwife
Succession
Agatha Christie's Marple
Tony Awards
The One Show
Spooks
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Inspector Morse
Killing Eve
Screen Two
Waking the Dead
Who Do You Think You Are?
Fairy Tales
The Last Duel
PONIES
Dalziel and Pascoe
Atonement
Law & Order: UK
Performance
The Spanish Princess
Sense and Sensibility
Documentary Now!
Wolf Hall
Belgravia
Patrick Melrose
Rocketman
Babel
The Cleaner
Black Earth Rising
This Is Going to Hurt
Flowers
London Spy
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
A Dance to the Music of Time
A Royal Affair
Suite Française
The Assets
Girls On Top
By Any Means
The End
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
Messiah
Playing Gracie Darling
Chéri
The Young Victoria
Curfew
Black Cab
Herself
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
Man Up
10 Days to War
Arthouse
Denial
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