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.

Filmography

• 2027National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer — Violet Venable
• PONIES — Manya Caplan
• 2026Shelter — Prime Minister Fordham
• Youth — Livonia Arbor
• Brian and Maggie — Margaret Thatcher, Executive Producer
• Playing Gracie Darling — Pattie Grey
• 2024And Mrs. — Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
• 2024National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba — Bernarda Alba
• Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant — Elsie Leach
• 2023On The Line — Shirley
• Silo — Martha Walker
• 2022Burial — Anna Marshall
• This Is Going to Hurt — Veronique
• 2022Your Christmas or Mine? — Iris
• 2021Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius — Duchess of Marlborough
• 2021Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks — Jo Patterson
• The Cleaner — Lisa
• 2021The Last Duel — Nicole de Carrouges
• Alan Bennett's Talking Heads — Muriel
• Belgravia — Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
• 2020Herself — Peggy
• Ted Lasso — Deborah Welton
• The End — Edie Henley
• Curfew — Helen Newman
• 2019Rocketman — Helen Piena
• The Spanish Princess — Margaret Beaufort
• Black Earth Rising — Eve Ashby
• 2018Henry IV — Henry IV
• 2018Julius Caesar — Brutus
• Killing Eve — Dasha Duzran
• 2018My Dinner with Hervé — Baskin
• Patrick Melrose — Princess Margaret
• Succession — Lady Caroline Collingwood
• 2018The Tempest — Prospero
• 2017The Sense of an Ending — Margaret Webster
• 2016Denial — Vera Reich
• Flowers — Hylda
• 2016Mindhorn — Richard's Agent
• The Crown — Clemmie Churchill
• Documentary Now! — Edwina
• London Spy — Claire
• 2015Man Up — Fran Patterson
• 2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens — Dr. Kalonia
• 2015Suite Française — Viscountess Montmort
• Wolf Hall — Margaret Pole
• The Assets — Jeanne Vertefeuille
• By Any Means — Sally Walker
• Heading Out — Angela
• 2012A Royal Affair — Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
• Call the Midwife — Sister Ursula
• Simon Schama's Shakespeare
• 2012The Domino Effect — Ann
• 2012The Door — Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
• 2012The Wedding Video — Alex
• Black Mirror — Judith Keyworth
• Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love — Isobel Balmerino
• Downton Abbey — Lady Shackleton
• 2009A Short Stay in Switzerland — Clare
• 2009Chéri — La Loupiote
• 2009From Time to Time — Lady Gresham
• Hunter — ACC Jenny Griffin
• Law & Order: UK — Natalie Chandler
• 2009Morris: A Life with Bells On — Professor Compton Chamberlayne
• 2009The Young Victoria — Queen Adelaide
• 10 Days to War — Anne Campbell
• 2008Abraham's Point — Pani Nemeth
• 2008Ballet Shoes — Dr. Smith
• 2008Broken Lines — Leah
• Fairy Tales — Charlotte Brooks
• 2007Atonement — Emily Tallis
• 2006Babel — Lilly
• 2006Chromophobia — Penelope Aylesbury
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Duchess
• London — Virginia Woolf
• 2003Bright Young Things — Lady Maitland
• 2003Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster — Mary Wollstonecraft
• 2002George Eliot: A Scandalous Life — Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
• Spooks — Deep Throat
• 2002Villa Des Roses — Olive Burrell
• 2001Macbeth — Lady Macbeth
• Messiah — Professor Robb
• Waking the Dead — Annie Keel
• Black Cab — Jane
• 1999Onegin — Madame Larina
• The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns — Queen Morag
• 1998Bedrooms and Hallways — Sybil
• 1998The Governess — Mrs. Cavendish
• Unfinished Business
• A Dance to the Music of Time — Mildred
• 1997Keep the Aspidistra Flying — Julia Comstock
• Midsomer Murders — Margaret Winstanley, Diana Davenport
• Dalziel and Pascoe — Mary Waddell
• 1996The Leading Man — Liz Flett
• 1995Sense and Sensibility — Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
• 1994A Man You Don't Meet Every Day — Charlotte
• Hard Times — Rachel
• 1993Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II — Narrator (voice)
• 1993The Hour of the Pig — Jeannine Martin
• 1993The Maitlands — Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
• Ashenden — Giulia Lazzari
• Performance — Dorothy Maitland
• The Men's Room — Charity Walton
• 1991They Never Slept — Amelia Cleverly
• 1990May Fools — Lily
• 1989Benefactors
• 1989La nuit miraculeuse
• A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery — Harriet Vane
• A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery — Harriet Vane
• Inspector Morse — Dr. Esther Martin
• Girls On Top — R.S.C. Actress 3
• Screen Two — Amelia Cleverly, Jeannine Martin
• 1985The Good Father — Emmy Hooper
• 1985The Price — Frances Carr
• The Price — Frances Carr
• 1985Turtle Diary — Harriet Sims
• 1984Amy — Amy Johnson
• 1984Reflections — Ottilie Garinger
• 1981The Cherry Orchard — Varya
• 1980The Imitation Game
• Rebecca — Clarice
• Late in Summer
• Margot & Rudi

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2024The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee — Self
• 2023Osborne House: A Royal Retreat — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Tate Britain's Great Art Walks — Self
• 2016Shakespeare Live! From the RSC — Self - Performer
• 2014The Mysterious Mr Webster — Self - Interviewee
• The One Show — Self
• Who Do You Think You Are? — Self
• Arthouse — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Nominee