Harriet Walter 1950 75

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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From London, England, UK

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Rocketman 2019
Helen Piena
Atonement 2007
Emily Tallis
The Last Duel 2021
Nicole de Carrouges
Silo 2023
Martha Walker
Sense and Sensibility 1995
Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
Suite Française 2015
Viscountess Montmort
Man Up 2015
Fran Patterson
A Royal Affair 2012
Augusta - Princess of Wales
Denial 2016
Vera Reich
Mindhorn 2016
Richard's Agent
Chéri 2009
La Loupiote

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2025 Late in Summer

2024 And Mrs. as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn

2024 The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee as Self

2024 National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba as Bernarda Alba

2023 Osborne House: A Royal Retreat as Self - Narrator (voice)

2023 On The Line as Shirley

2023 Silo as Martha Walker

2022 Your Christmas or Mine? as Iris

2022 Burial as Anna Marshall

2021 The Last Duel as Nicole de Carrouges

2021 Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius as Duchess of Marlborough

2020 Herself as Peggy

2019 Rocketman as Helen Piena

2018 My Dinner with Hervé as Baskin

2018 Julius Caesar as Brutus

2018 Henry IV as Henry IV

2018 The Tempest as Prospero

2017 The Sense of an Ending as Margaret Webster

2016 Mindhorn as Richard's Agent

2016 Denial as Vera Reich

2016 Shakespeare Live! From the RSC as Self - Performer

2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens as Dr. Kalonia

2015 Man Up as Fran Patterson

2015 Suite Française as Viscountess Montmort

2014 The Mysterious Mr Webster as Self - Interviewee

2012 The Domino Effect as Ann

2012 The Door as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes

2012 The Wedding Video as Alex

2012 A Royal Affair as Augusta - Princess of Wales

2009 From Time to Time as Lady Gresham

2009 Chéri as La Loupiote

2009 The Young Victoria as Queen Adelaide

2009 A Short Stay in Switzerland as Clare

2009 Morris: A Life with Bells On as Professor Compton Chamberlayne

2008 Broken Lines as Leah

2008 Ballet Shoes as Dr. Smith

2008 Abraham's Point as Pani Nemeth

2007 Atonement as Emily Tallis

2006 Babel as Lilly

2006 Chromophobia as Penelope Aylesbury

2003 Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster as Mary Wollstonecraft

2003 Bright Young Things as Lady Maitland

2002 George Eliot: A Scandalous Life as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

2002 Villa Des Roses as Olive Burrell

2001 Macbeth as Lady Macbeth

1999 Onegin as Madame Larina

1998 Bedrooms and Hallways as Sybil

1998 The Governess as Mrs. Cavendish

1997 Keep the Aspidistra Flying as Julia Comstock

1996 The Leading Man as Liz Flett

1995 Sense and Sensibility as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

1994 A Man You Don't Meet Every Day as Charlotte

1994 Hard Times as Rachel

1993 Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Narrator (voice)

1993 The Maitlands as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland

1993 The Hour of the Pig as Jeannine Martin

1991 They Never Slept as Amelia Cleverly

1990 May Fools as Lily

1989 Benefactors

1985 Turtle Diary as Harriet Sims

1985 The Good Father as Emmy Hooper

1985 The Price as Frances Carr

1984 Reflections as Ottilie Garinger

1984 Amy as Amy Johnson

1981 The Cherry Orchard as Varya

1980 The Imitation Game

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7.44 History 8

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6.80 Documentary 6

6.78 Adventure 2

6.73 TV Movie 5

6.57 War 3

6.47 Drama 37

6.40 Family 1

6.30 Mystery 2

6.30 Fantasy 1

6.20 Comedy 12

6.20 Crime 1

6.16 Romance 18

5.55 Thriller 5