Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

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.

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Birthday: September 24, 1950

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Known For

Babel
Babel

2006-10-26

May Fools
May Fools

1990-01-24

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

2003-12-07

Atonement
Atonement

2007-02-27

The Mysterious Mr Webster
The Mysterious Mr Webster

2014-05-24

Burial
Burial

2022-09-02

The Leading Man
The Leading Man

1996-12-12

The Good Father
The Good Father

1985-11-01

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

2021-10-10

Chromophobia
Chromophobia

2006-05-10

The Hour of the Pig
The Hour of the Pig

1993-09-25

Villa Des Roses
Villa Des Roses

2002-02-27

On The Line
On The Line

2023-05-15

The Governess
The Governess

1998-07-31

Macbeth
Macbeth

2001-01-01

The Wedding Video
The Wedding Video

2012-08-17

The Domino Effect
The Domino Effect

2012-10-18

Chéri
Chéri

2009-04-08

Reflections
Reflections

1984-04-01

They Never Slept
They Never Slept

1991-01-20

Benefactors
Benefactors

1989-01-02

Suite Française
Suite Française

2015-03-12

Ballet Shoes
Ballet Shoes

2008-08-26

Hard Times
Hard Times

1994-04-29

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

2002-11-01

Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

1995-12-13

The Maitlands
The Maitlands

1993-11-13

Your Christmas or Mine?
Your Christmas or Mine?

2022-12-02

The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game

1980-04-24

And Mrs
And Mrs

2024-09-20

Man Up
Man Up

2015-05-29

The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending

2017-03-10

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

1993-11-17

National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba

2024-03-22

Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things

2003-10-03

A Royal Affair
A Royal Affair

2012-03-29

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015-12-15

From Time to Time
From Time to Time

2009-10-15

The Young Victoria
The Young Victoria

2009-03-04

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

2024-08-09

Amy
Amy

1984-01-02

Bedrooms and Hallways
Bedrooms and Hallways

1998-08-01

The Cherry Orchard
The Cherry Orchard

1981-10-13

Denial
Denial

2016-09-30

Late in Summer
Late in Summer

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016-04-23

Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary

1985-12-06

A Short Stay in Switzerland
A Short Stay in Switzerland

2009-01-25

Mindhorn
Mindhorn

2016-10-09

The Price
The Price

1985-01-10

My Dinner with Hervé
My Dinner with Hervé

2018-10-20

Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

2018-06-17

The Door
The Door

2012-10-12

Rocketman
Rocketman

2019-05-17

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997-11-20

Morris: A Life with Bells On
Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009-01-09

Abraham's Point
Abraham's Point

2008-01-01

The Last Duel
The Last Duel

2021-10-13

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

1994-11-09

Onegin
Onegin

1999-12-22

Henry IV
Henry IV

2018-06-17

The Tempest
The Tempest

2018-06-17

Herself
Herself

2020-11-26

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat

2023-09-16

Broken Lines
Broken Lines

2008-09-02