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Harriet Walter
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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 Cleopatr…
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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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Harriet Walter's Filmography
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National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
as Violet Venable
Shelter
as Prime Minister Fordham
And Mrs.
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
as Self
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
as Bernarda Alba
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
as Self - Narrator (voice)
On The Line
as Shirley
Your Christmas or Mine?
as Iris
Burial
as Anna Marshall
The Last Duel
as Nicole de Carrouges
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
as Duchess of Marlborough
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
as Jo Patterson
Herself
as Peggy
Rocketman
as Helen Piena
My Dinner with Hervé
as Baskin
Julius Caesar
as Brutus
The Tempest
as Prospero
Henry IV
as Henry IV
The Sense of an Ending
as Margaret Webster
Mindhorn
as Richard's Agent
Denial
as Vera Reich
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
as Self - Performer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
as Dr. Kalonia
Man Up
as Fran Patterson
Suite Française
as Viscountess Montmort
The Mysterious Mr Webster
as Self - Interviewee
The Domino Effect
as Ann
The Door
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
The Wedding Video
as Alex
A Royal Affair
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
From Time to Time
as Lady Gresham
Chéri
as La Loupiote
The Young Victoria
as Queen Adelaide
A Short Stay in Switzerland
as Clare
Morris: A Life with Bells On
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Broken Lines
as Leah
Ballet Shoes
as Dr. Smith
Abraham's Point
as Pani Nemeth
Atonement
as Emily Tallis
Babel
as Lilly
Chromophobia
as Penelope Aylesbury
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
as Mary Wollstonecraft
Bright Young Things
as Lady Maitland
No Poster
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Villa Des Roses
as Olive Burrell
Macbeth
as Lady Macbeth
Onegin
as Madame Larina
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Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
as Felicity Ormal
Bedrooms and Hallways
as Sybil
The Governess
as Mrs. Cavendish
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
as Julia Comstock
The Leading Man
as Liz Flett
Sense and Sensibility
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
as Charlotte
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
as Narrator (voice)
The Maitlands
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
The Hour of the Pig
as Jeannine Martin
They Never Slept
as Amelia Cleverly
May Fools
as Lily
La nuit miraculeuse
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Benefactors
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Omnibus: Caryl Churchill
as Player in extracts from 'Cloud 9' and 'Top Girls'
Turtle Diary
as Harriet Sims
The Good Father
as Emmy Hooper
The Price
as Frances Carr
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Reflections
as Ottilie Garinger
Amy
as Amy Johnson
The Cherry Orchard
as Varya
The Imitation Game
as Cathy Raine
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Margot & Rudi
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