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 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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Filmography (127 Appearances)

Late in Summer

TBA

Shelter

2026

PONIES

2026

Playing Gracie Darling

2025

Brian and Maggie

2025

And Mrs.

2024

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

2024

The House of Bernarda Alba

2024

Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant

2023

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat

2023

On The Line

2023

Silo

2023

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022

Burial

2022

This Is Going to Hurt

2022

The Last Duel

2021

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

2021

The Cleaner

2021

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks

2021

Herself

2020

Ted Lasso

2020

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

2020

Belgravia

2020

The End

2020

Rocketman

2019

The Spanish Princess

2019

Curfew

2019

My Dinner with Hervé

2018

Black Earth Rising

2018

The Tempest

2018

Henry IV

2018

Julius Caesar

2018

Succession

2018

Patrick Melrose

2018

Killing Eve

2018

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

2017

The Sense of an Ending

2017

The Crown

2016

Mindhorn

2016

Denial

2016

Flowers

2016

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015

London Spy

2015

Documentary Now!

2015

Man Up

2015

Suite Française

2015

Wolf Hall

2015

The Mysterious Mr Webster

2014

The Assets

2014

By Any Means

2013

Heading Out

2013

The Domino Effect

2012

The Door

2012

The Wedding Video

2012

Simon Schama's Shakespeare

2012

A Royal Affair

2012

Call the Midwife

2012

Black Mirror

2011

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

2011

Downton Abbey

2010

From Time to Time

2009

Chéri

2009

The Young Victoria

2009

Law & Order: UK

2009

A Short Stay in Switzerland

2009

Hunter

2009

Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009

Broken Lines

2008

Ballet Shoes

2008

10 Days to War

2008

Fairy Tales

2008

Abraham's Point

2008

Atonement

2007

Babel

2006

The One Show

2006

Chromophobia

2006

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

London

2004

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

2003

Bright Young Things

2003

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

2002

Spooks

2002

Villa Des Roses

2002

Waking the Dead

2001

Messiah

2001

Macbeth

2001

Black Cab

2000

Onegin

1999

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

1999

Bedrooms and Hallways

1998

The Governess

1998

Unfinished Business

1998

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997

Arthouse

1997

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997

Midsomer Murders

1997

The Leading Man

1996

Dalziel & Pascoe

1996

Sense and Sensibility

1995

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

1994

Hard Times

1994

Hard Times

1994

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

1993

The Maitlands

1993

The Hour of the Pig

1993

Ashenden

1991

Performance

1991

They Never Slept

1991

May Fools

1990

La nuit miraculeuse

1989

Benefactors

1989

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

1987

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

1987

Inspector Morse

1987

Turtle Diary

1985

The Good Father

1985

Girls On Top

1985

The Price

1985

The Price

1985

Screen Two

1985

Reflections

1984

Amy

1984

The Cherry Orchard

1981

The Imitation Game

1980 Debut

Rebecca

1979

Tony Awards

1956
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