
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

Call the Midwife
2012
as Sister Ursula

Black Mirror
2011
as Judith Keyworth

The Crown
2016
as Clemmie Churchill

The One Show
2006
as Self

Silo
2023
as Martha Walker

Downton Abbey
2010
as Lady Shackleton

Succession
2018
as Lady Caroline Collingwood

Ted Lasso
2020
as Deborah

Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Duchess

Spooks
2002
as Deep Throat

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

This Is Going to Hurt
2022
as Veronique

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

Flowers
2016
as Hylda
Arthouse
1997
as Self

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
as Queen Morag

A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
as Mildred

By Any Means
2013
as Sally Walker

The End
2020
as Edie Henley

Curfew
2019
as Helen Newman

Playing Gracie Darling
2025
as Pattie Grey

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self

Brian and Maggie
2025
as Margaret Thatcher

10 Days to War
2008
as Anne Campbell

The Assets
2014
as Jeanne Vertefeuille

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Muriel

Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
London
2004
as Virginia Woolf

Heading Out
2013
as Angela

Fairy Tales
2008
as Charlotte Brooks

Rebecca
1979
as Clarice
Ashenden
1991
as Giulia Lazzari

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
as Isobel Balmerino

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Harriet Vane
Unfinished Business
1998

Hunter
2009
as ACC Jenny Griffin

The Price
1985
as Frances Carr

Black Cab
2000
as Jane

Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
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

The Last Duel
2021
as Nicole de Carrouges

Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

Rocketman
2019
as Helen Piena

Suite Française
2015
as Viscountess Montmort

The Young Victoria
2009
as Queen Adelaide

Denial
2016
as Vera Reich

Man Up
2015
as Fran Patterson

The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Margaret Webster

Mindhorn
2016
as Richard's Agent

Bright Young Things
2003
as Lady Maitland

A Royal Affair
2012
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales

Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
as Sybil

Onegin
1999
as Madame Larina

Hard Times
1994
as Rachel

Chromophobia
2006
as Penelope Aylesbury

My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Baskin

Herself
2020
as Peggy

The Leading Man
1996
as Liz Flett

And Mrs.
2024
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn

Chéri
2009
as La Loupiote

Ballet Shoes
2008
as Dr. Smith

The Governess
1998
as Mrs. Cavendish

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Iris

Burial
2022
as Anna Marshall

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Julia Comstock

From Time to Time
2009
as Lady Gresham

The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Jeannine Martin

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
as Self

National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
as Bernarda Alba

The Good Father
1985
as Emmy Hooper

May Fools
1990
as Lily

Macbeth
2001
as Lady Macbeth

Turtle Diary
1985
as Harriet Sims

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
as Duchess of Marlborough
Late in Summer

The Wedding Video
2012
as Alex
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
as Clare

Amy
1984
as Amy Johnson

The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Varya

On The Line
2023
as Shirley

The Maitlands
1993
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland

Broken Lines
2008
as Leah

Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne

The Domino Effect
2012
as Ann
Benefactors
1989

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Reflections
1984
as Ottilie Garinger

They Never Slept
1991
as Amelia Cleverly

The Door
2012
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes

The Imitation Game
1980

Villa Des Roses
2002
as Olive Burrell

The Price
1985
as Frances Carr

La nuit miraculeuse
1989

Abraham's Point
2008
as Pani Nemeth

Henry IV
2018
as Henry IV

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
as Mary Wollstonecraft

Julius Caesar
2018
as Brutus

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Tempest
2018
as Prospero

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
as Jo Patterson

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
as Charlotte
Margot & Rudi

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
- The Last Duel (2021) — as Nicole de Carrouges
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