Harriet Walter
Born September 24, 1950 (Age: 75)
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London, England, UK
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.
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.
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Filmography
Shelter
2026
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as Prime Minister Fordham
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Age: 75
The Last Duel
2021
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as Nicole de Carrouges
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Age: 71
Rocketman
2019
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as Helen Piena
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Age: 68
The Sense of an Ending
2017
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as Margaret Webster
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Age: 66
Denial
2016
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as Vera Reich
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Age: 66
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
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as Dr. Kalonia
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Age: 65
Man Up
2015
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as Fran Patterson
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Age: 64
Suite Française
2015
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as Viscountess Montmort
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Age: 64
The Door
2012
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as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
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Age: 62
A Royal Affair
2012
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as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
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Age: 61
Chéri
2009
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as La Loupiote
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Age: 58
The Young Victoria
2009
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as Queen Adelaide
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Age: 58
Atonement
2007
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as Emily Tallis
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Age: 56
Babel
2006
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as Lilly
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Age: 56
No Image
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
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as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
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Age: 52
Villa Des Roses
2002
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as Olive Burrell
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Age: 51
Onegin
1999
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as Madame Larina
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Age: 49
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
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as Sybil
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Age: 47
The Governess
1998
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as Mrs. Cavendish
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Age: 47
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
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as Julia Comstock
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Age: 47
The Leading Man
1996
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as Liz Flett
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Age: 46
Sense and Sensibility
1995
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as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
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Age: 45
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
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as Charlotte
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Age: 44
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 43
The Maitlands
1993
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as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
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Age: 43
The Hour of the Pig
1993
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as Jeannine Martin
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Age: 43
They Never Slept
1991
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as Amelia Cleverly
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Age: 40
May Fools
1990
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as Lily
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Age: 39
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
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as
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Age: 39
No Image
Benefactors
1989
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as
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Age: 38
Turtle Diary
1985
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as Harriet Sims
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Age: 35
The Good Father
1985
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as Emmy Hooper
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Age: 35
The Price
1985
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as Frances Carr
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Age: 34
The Cherry Orchard
1981
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as Varya
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Age: 31
The Imitation Game
1980
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as
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Age: 29