Harriet Walter
Known for Acting · 129 credits
- Born
- 1950-09-24 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- 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).
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Known For
TV Shows (59)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Margaret Winstanley / Diana Davenport
Black Mirror
2011
as Judith Keyworth
Call the Midwife
2012
as Sister Ursula
The Crown
2016
as Clemmie Churchill
The One Show
2006
as Self
Downton Abbey
2010
as Lady Shackleton
Succession
2018
as Lady Caroline Collingwood
Ted Lasso
2020
as Deborah
Silo
2023
as Martha Walker
Spooks
2002
as Deep Throat
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Duchess
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee
Waking the Dead
2001
as Annie Keel
Killing Eve
2018
as Dasha Duzran
Inspector Morse
1987
as Dr. Esther Martin
Screen Two
1985
as Amelia Cleverly / Jeannine Martin
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Mary Waddell
Law & Order: UK
2009
as Natalie Chandler
Performance
1991
as Dorothy Maitland
Wolf Hall
2015
as Margaret Pole
Documentary Now!
2015
as Edwina
PONIES
2026
as Manya Caplan
The Spanish Princess
2019
as Margaret Beaufort
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Princess Margaret
The Cleaner
2021
as Lisa
Black Earth Rising
2018
as Eve Ashby
Belgravia
2020
as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
London Spy
2015
as Claire
Messiah
2001
as Professor Robb
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
as Elsie Leach
Girls On Top
1985
as R.S.C. Actress 3
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
as Veronique
By Any Means
2013
as Sally Walker
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
as Queen Morag
The End
2020
as Edie Henley
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
as Mildred
Flowers
2016
as Hylda
Arthouse
1997
as Self
Playing Gracie Darling
2025
as Pattie Grey
Curfew
2019
as Helen Newman
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self
The Assets
2014
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Muriel
Brian and Maggie
2025
as Margaret Thatcher
10 Days to War
2008
as Anne Campbell
Fairy Tales
2008
as Charlotte Brooks
London
2004
as Virginia Woolf
Rebecca
1979
as Clarice
Ashenden
1991
as Giulia Lazzari
Heading Out
2013
as Angela
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Harriet Vane
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
as Isobel Balmerino
Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
Hunter
2009
as ACC Jenny Griffin
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
Black Cab
2000
as Jane
Unfinished Business
1998
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Harriet Vane
Movies (70)
Shelter
2026
as Prime Minister Fordham
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Dr. Kalonia
Atonement
2007
as Emily Tallis
Babel
2006
as Lilly
Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
The Last Duel
2021
as Nicole de Carrouges
Rocketman
2019
as Helen Piena
Man Up
2015
as Fran Patterson
Suite Française
2015
as Viscountess Montmort
Mindhorn
2016
as Richard's Agent
Onegin
1999
as Madame Larina
Denial
2016
as Vera Reich
The Young Victoria
2009
as Queen Adelaide
The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Margaret Webster
Bright Young Things
2003
as Lady Maitland
Chéri
2009
as La Loupiote
A Royal Affair
2012
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Chromophobia
2006
as Penelope Aylesbury
Ballet Shoes
2008
as Dr. Smith
My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Baskin
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
The Leading Man
1996
as Liz Flett
And Mrs.
2024
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
The Governess
1998
as Mrs. Cavendish
Herself
2020
as Peggy
May Fools
1990
as Lily
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
as Sybil
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Julia Comstock
Burial
2022
as Anna Marshall
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Jeannine Martin
The Good Father
1985
as Emmy Hooper
From Time to Time
2009
as Lady Gresham
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
as Self
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Iris
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
as Clare
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Turtle Diary
1985
as Harriet Sims
Broken Lines
2008
as Leah
The Wedding Video
2012
as Alex
The Domino Effect
2012
as Ann
Reflections
1984
as Ottilie Garinger
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
as Duchess of Marlborough
The Door
2012
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Varya
Amy
1984
as Amy Johnson
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
Macbeth
2001
as Lady Macbeth
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
as Bernarda Alba
Late in Summer
They Never Slept
1991
as Amelia Cleverly
On The Line
2023
as Shirley
Julius Caesar
2018
as Brutus
The Maitlands
1993
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
Henry IV
2018
as Henry IV
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
as Mary Wollstonecraft
The Imitation Game
1980
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Villa Des Roses
2002
as Olive Burrell
The Tempest
2018
as Prospero
Abraham's Point
2008
as Pani Nemeth
Benefactors
1989
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
as Charlotte
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
as Jo Patterson
Margot & Rudi
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
as Self - Interviewee
Brian and Maggie
2025
as Margaret Thatcher
About Harriet Walter
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… With 129 credits spanning from 1956 to 2026, Harriet Walter has appeared in 70 films and 59 TV shows.
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- Shelter (2026) — as Prime Minister Fordham
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) — as Dr. Kalonia
- Atonement (2007) — as Emily Tallis
- Babel (2006) — as Lilly
- Sense and Sensibility (1995) — as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
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