Cast
Harriet Walter
Acting
Cast
Harriet Walter
Known for
Acting
Born
1950-09-24
From
London, England, UK
Also known as هریت والتر, Dame Harriet Mary Walter
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 (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.
★7.8
MOVIE2026
Shelter
as Prime Minister Fordham
★7.2
MOVIE2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Dr. Kalonia
★7.6
MOVIE2007
Atonement
as Emily Tallis
★7.4
MOVIE1995
Sense and Sensibility
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
★7.2
MOVIE2006
Babel
as Lilly
★7.4
MOVIE2021
The Last Duel
as Nicole de Carrouges
★7.3
MOVIE2019
Rocketman
as Helen Piena
★7.3
MOVIE2012
A Royal Affair
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
★7.2
MOVIE2015
Suite Française
as Viscountess Montmort
★6.7
MOVIE2020
Herself
as Peggy
★6.4
MOVIE2008
Ballet Shoes
as Dr. Smith
★6.4
MOVIE2022
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Iris
★6.3
MOVIE2018
My Dinner with Hervé
as Baskin
★7.2
MOVIE2009
The Young Victoria
as Queen Adelaide
★6.1
MOVIE2009
Chéri
as La Loupiote
★6.6
MOVIE2015
Man Up
as Fran Patterson
★6.1
MOVIE1999
Onegin
as Madame Larina
★6.8
MOVIE2016
Denial
as Vera Reich
MOVIE2023
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2003
Bright Young Things
as Lady Maitland
MOVIE1993
The Maitlands
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
★7.0
MOVIE1981
The Cherry Orchard
as Varya
★6.2
MOVIE1993
The Hour of the Pig
as Jeannine Martin
★6.1
MOVIE1998
Bedrooms and Hallways
as Sybil
★5.2
MOVIE2006
Chromophobia
as Penelope Aylesbury
★6.3
MOVIE2009
From Time to Time
as Lady Gresham
★6.1
MOVIE2016
Mindhorn
as Richard's Agent
★5.8
MOVIE1998
The Governess
as Mrs. Cavendish
★6.4
MOVIE2017
The Sense of an Ending
as Margaret Webster
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Julia Comstock
★5.5
MOVIE2012
The Wedding Video
as Alex
★4.5
MOVIE2024
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda Alba
★7.0
MOVIE1989
La nuit miraculeuse
★6.9
MOVIE1990
May Fools
as Lily
★6.3
MOVIE1985
Turtle Diary
as Harriet Sims
★5.0
MOVIE2021
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
as Jo Patterson
MOVIETBA
Margot & Rudi
★3.5
MOVIE2008
Broken Lines
as Leah
★5.4
MOVIE2024
And Mrs.
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
★5.3
MOVIE2022
Burial
as Anna Marshall
★5.6
MOVIE2023
On The Line
as Shirley
★4.0
MOVIE2002
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
★7.8
MOVIE1980
The Imitation Game
★2.0
MOVIE1989
Benefactors
★7.6
MOVIE2024
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE2002
Villa Des Roses
as Olive Burrell
★8.5
MOVIE2018
Julius Caesar
as Brutus
★5.0
MOVIE1996
The Leading Man
as Liz Flett
★7.2
MOVIE2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
MOVIE1991
They Never Slept
as Amelia Cleverly
★6.0
MOVIE2025
Brian and Maggie
as Margaret Thatcher
★5.6
MOVIE1985
The Good Father
as Emmy Hooper
★5.0
MOVIE2012
The Domino Effect
as Ann
★6.6
MOVIE2001
Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth
★5.3
MOVIE1984
Reflections
as Ottilie Garinger
MOVIETBA
Late in Summer
★7.7
MOVIE1994
Hard Times
as Rachel
★3.7
MOVIE1994
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
as Charlotte
MOVIE2018
The Tempest
as Prospero
★4.0
MOVIE2008
Abraham's Point
as Pani Nemeth
★8.5
MOVIE1993
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2021
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Duchess of Marlborough
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
★9.0
MOVIE2003
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as Mary Wollstonecraft
MOVIE2018
Henry IV
as Henry IV
★8.3
MOVIE1984
Amy
as Amy Johnson
★6.9
MOVIE2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Clare
MOVIE2012
The Door
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
MOVIE1985
The Price
as Frances Carr
★6.0
MOVIE2014
The Mysterious Mr Webster
as Self - Interviewee