Harriet Walter
Acting
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.
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Margaret Thatcher
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Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
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Self - Narrator (voice)
movieOn The Line
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tvSilo
2023
Martha Walker
movieBurial
2022
Anna Marshall
tvThis Is Going to Hurt
2022
Veronique
movieThe Last Duel
2021
Nicole de Carrouges
movieAlexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
Duchess of Marlborough
movieDoctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
Jo Patterson
movieHerself
2020
Peggy
tvTed Lasso
2020
Deborah
tvBelgravia
2020
Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
tvThe End
2020
Edie Henley
movieRocketman
2019
Helen Piena
tvThe Spanish Princess
2019
Margaret Beaufort
tvCurfew
2019
Helen Newman
tvBlack Earth Rising
2018
Eve Ashby
movieJulius Caesar
2018
Brutus
movieHenry IV
2018
Henry IV
movieThe Tempest
2018
Prospero
tvSuccession
2018
Lady Caroline Collingwood
tvPatrick Melrose
2018
Princess Margaret
tvKilling Eve
2018
Dasha Duzran
movieThe Sense of an Ending
2017
Margaret Webster
tvThe Crown
2016
Clemmie Churchill
movieMindhorn
2016
Richard's Agent
movieDenial
2016
Vera Reich
tvFlowers
2016
Hylda
movieShakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
Self - Performer
movieStar Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
Dr. Kalonia
tvLondon Spy
2015
Claire
tvDocumentary Now!
2015
Edwina
movieMan Up
2015
Fran Patterson
movieSuite Française
2015
Viscountess Montmort
tvWolf Hall
2015
Margaret Pole
movieThe Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
Self - Interviewee
tvThe Assets
2014
Jeanne Vertefeuille
tvBy Any Means
2013
Sally Walker
tvHeading Out
2013
Angela
movieThe Door
2012
Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
movieA Royal Affair
2012
Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
tvCall the Midwife
2012
Sister Ursula
tvBlack Mirror
2011
Judith Keyworth
tvRosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
Isobel Balmerino
tvDownton Abbey
2010
Lady Shackleton
movieFrom Time to Time
2009
Lady Gresham
movieChéri
2009
La Loupiote
movieThe Young Victoria
2009
Queen Adelaide
tvLaw & Order: UK
2009
Natalie Chandler
tvHunter
2009
ACC Jenny Griffin
movieMorris: A Life with Bells On
2009
Professor Compton Chamberlayne
movieBallet Shoes
2008
Dr. Smith
tv10 Days to War
2008
Anne Campbell
tvFairy Tales
2008
Charlotte Brooks
movieAbraham's Point
2008
Pani Nemeth
movieAtonement
2007
Emily Tallis
movieBabel
2006
Lilly
movieChromophobia
2006
Penelope Aylesbury
London
2004
Virginia Woolf
movieFrankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
Mary Wollstonecraft
movieBright Young Things
2003
Lady Maitland
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
tvSpooks
2002
Deep Throat
movieVilla Des Roses
2002
Olive Burrell
tvWaking the Dead
2001
Annie Keel
tvMessiah
2001
Professor Robb
movieMacbeth
2001
Lady Macbeth
tvBlack Cab
2000
Jane
movieOnegin
1999
Madame Larina
tvThe Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
Queen Morag
movieThe Governess
1998
Mrs. Cavendish
movieKeep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
Julia Comstock
tvMidsomer Murders
1997
Margaret Winstanley / Diana Davenport
movieThe Leading Man
1996
Liz Flett
tvDalziel and Pascoe
1996
Mary Waddell
movieSense and Sensibility
1995
Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
movieHard Times
1994
Rachel
tvHard Times
1994
Rachel
movieThe Maitlands
1993
Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
movieThe Hour of the Pig
1993
Jeannine Martin
Ashenden
1991
Giulia Lazzari
tvPerformance
1991
Dorothy Maitland
movieThey Never Slept
1991
Amelia Cleverly
tvA Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
Harriet Vane
tvInspector Morse
1987
Dr. Esther Martin
movieTurtle Diary
1985
Harriet Sims
movieThe Good Father
1985
Emmy Hooper
tvGirls On Top
1985
R.S.C. Actress 3
movieThe Price
1985
Frances Carr
tvThe Price
1985
Frances Carr
tvScreen Two
1985
Amelia Cleverly / Jeannine Martin
Reflections
1984
Ottilie Garinger
movieAmy
1984
Amy Johnson
tvRebecca
1979
Clarice
tvTony Awards
1956
Self - Nominee
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tvBrian and Maggie
2025
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