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 (1987β88) 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 (2009β14), in four episodes of Downton Abbey (2013β15), 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 (2018β21) and one for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Ted Lasso (2021).
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Filmography (128)
Shelter
2026
PONIES
2026
Brian and Maggie
2025
Brian and Maggie
2025
Playing Gracie Darling
2025
And Mrs.
2024
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
On The Line
2023
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
Silo
2023
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
Burial
2022
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
The Last Duel
2021
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
The Cleaner
2021
Herself
2020
Ted Lasso
2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
Belgravia
2020
The End
2020
Rocketman
2019
Curfew
2019
The Spanish Princess
2019
My Dinner with HervΓ©
2018
Julius Caesar
2018
Henry IV
2018
The Tempest
2018
Patrick Melrose
2018
Killing Eve
2018
Succession
2018
Black Earth Rising
2018
The Sense of an Ending
2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
Denial
2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Mindhorn
2016
The Crown
2016
Flowers
2016
Suite Française
2015
Man Up
2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Documentary Now!
2015
Wolf Hall
2015
London Spy
2015
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
The Assets
2014
Heading Out
2013
By Any Means
2013
The Wedding Video
2012
The Domino Effect
2012
The Door
2012
A Royal Affair
2012
Call the Midwife
2012
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
Black Mirror
2011
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
Downton Abbey
2010
ChΓ©ri
2009
From Time to Time
2009
The Young Victoria
2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
Law & Order: UK
2009
Hunter
2009
Ballet Shoes
2008
Abraham's Point
2008
Broken Lines
2008
10 Days to War
2008
Fairy Tales
2008
Atonement
2007
Babel
2006
Chromophobia
2006
The One Show
2006
London
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
Bright Young Things
2003
Villa Des Roses
2002
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
Spooks
2002
Macbeth
2001
Waking the Dead
2001
Messiah
2001
Black Cab
2000
Onegin
1999
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
The Governess
1998
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
Unfinished Business
1998
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
Midsomer Murders
1997
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
Arthouse
1997
The Leading Man
1996
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Hard Times
1994
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
Hard Times
1994
The Hour of the Pig
1993
The Maitlands
1993
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Γpoque to World War II
1993
They Never Slept
1991
Performance
1991
Ashenden
1991
May Fools
1990
Benefactors
1989
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
Inspector Morse
1987
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
The Good Father
1985
Turtle Diary
1985
The Price
1985
Girls On Top
1985
The Price
1985
Screen Two
1985
Reflections
1984
Amy
1984
The Cherry Orchard
1981
The Imitation Game
1980
Rebecca
1979
Tony Awards
1956
Late in Summer
Margot & Rudi
English
EspaΓ±ol
Russian
