
Cast
Harriet Walter
Acting
Cast
Harriet Walter
Known for
Acting
Born
1950-09-24
From
London, England, UK
Also known as هریت والتر
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.

Shelter
as Prime Minister Fordham

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Dr. Kalonia

Atonement
as Emily Tallis

Babel
as Lilly

The Last Duel
as Nicole de Carrouges

Sense and Sensibility
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

Rocketman
as Helen Piena

Suite Française
as Viscountess Montmort

The Young Victoria
as Queen Adelaide

Denial
as Vera Reich

Man Up
as Fran Patterson

The Sense of an Ending
as Margaret Webster

Mindhorn
as Richard's Agent

Bright Young Things
as Lady Maitland

A Royal Affair
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales

Bedrooms and Hallways
as Sybil

Onegin
as Madame Larina

Hard Times
as Rachel

Chromophobia
as Penelope Aylesbury

My Dinner with Hervé
as Baskin

Herself
as Peggy

The Leading Man
as Liz Flett

And Mrs.
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn

Chéri
as La Loupiote

Ballet Shoes
as Dr. Smith

The Governess
as Mrs. Cavendish

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer

Your Christmas or Mine?
as Iris

Burial
as Anna Marshall

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Julia Comstock

From Time to Time
as Lady Gresham

The Hour of the Pig
as Jeannine Martin

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self

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

The Good Father
as Emmy Hooper

May Fools
as Lily

Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth

Turtle Diary
as Harriet Sims

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Duchess of Marlborough

Late in Summer

The Wedding Video
as Alex

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

A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Clare

Amy
as Amy Johnson

The Cherry Orchard
as Varya

On The Line
as Shirley

The Maitlands
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland

Broken Lines
as Leah

Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne

The Domino Effect
as Ann

Benefactors

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

Reflections
as Ottilie Garinger

They Never Slept
as Amelia Cleverly

The Door
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes

The Imitation Game

Villa Des Roses
as Olive Burrell

The Price
as Frances Carr

La nuit miraculeuse

Abraham's Point
as Pani Nemeth

Henry IV
as Henry IV

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as Mary Wollstonecraft

Julius Caesar
as Brutus

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

The Tempest
as Prospero

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
as Jo Patterson

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
as Charlotte

Margot & Rudi

The Mysterious Mr Webster
as Self - Interviewee

Brian and Maggie
as Margaret Thatcher