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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Primarily2025 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