Acting · London, England, UK · Born September 24, 1950
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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2021
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2021
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2020
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2019
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2019
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2018
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2018
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2018
as Henry IV
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2018
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2018
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2018
as Princess Margaret
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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2012
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as Judith Keyworth
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as Isobel Balmerino
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2010
as Lady Shackleton
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2009
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2009
as La Loupiote
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2009
as Queen Adelaide
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2009
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2009
as Clare
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2009
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2008
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2008
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2008
as Charlotte Brooks
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2007
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2006
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2006
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2006
as Penelope Aylesbury
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2004
as Duchess
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2004
as Self
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2004
as Virginia Woolf
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2003
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2003
as Lady Maitland
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2002
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2002
as Deep Throat
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2002
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2001
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2001
as Professor Robb
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2001
as Lady Macbeth
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2000
as Jane
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1999
as Madame Larina
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1999
as Queen Morag
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1998
as Sybil
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1998
as Mrs. Cavendish
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1998
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1997
as Julia Comstock
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1997
as Self
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1997
as Mildred
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1997
as Margaret Winstanley
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1996
as Liz Flett
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1996
as Mary Waddell
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1995
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
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1994
as Charlotte
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1994
as Rachel
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1994
as Rachel
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1993
as Narrator (voice)
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1993
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
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1993
as Jeannine Martin
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1991
as Giulia Lazzari
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1991
as Dorothy Maitland
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1991
as Amelia Cleverly
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1990
as Lily
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1989
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1989
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1987
as Harriet Vane
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1987
as Harriet Vane
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1987
as Dr. Esther Martin
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1985
as Harriet Sims
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1985
as Emmy Hooper
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1985
as R.S.C. Actress 3
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1985
as Frances Carr
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1985
as Frances Carr
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1985
as Amelia Cleverly
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1984
as Ottilie Garinger
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1984
as Amy Johnson
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1981
as Varya
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1980
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1979
as Clarice
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1956
as Self - Nominee
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