Harriet Walter

Known for ActingBorn 1950-09-24 (age 75)London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

London

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

Julius Caesar

Ted Lasso

Succession

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

Black Mirror

Silo

The Crown

Downton Abbey

Amy

Killing Eve

Black Cab

Shelter

Agatha Christie's Marple

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

This Is Going to Hurt

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Inspector Morse

The Spanish Princess

Patrick Melrose

Spooks

Atonement

Wolf Hall

Call the Midwife

The Last Duel

Hard Times

The Imitation Game

Rocketman

A Royal Affair

Midsomer Murders

Flowers

Brian and Maggie

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Hunter

Sense and Sensibility

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Suite Française

Messiah

The Price

Rebecca

Documentary Now!

Waking the Dead

The Young Victoria

Babel

The Cleaner

Belgravia