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 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.
Born: 24 September 1950
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Shelter
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PONIES
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Brian and Maggie
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Burial
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Nicole de Carrouges
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
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Ted Lasso
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Eve Ashby
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Henry IV
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Succession
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Princess Margaret
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Killing Eve
Dasha Duzran
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Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
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Margaret Webster
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The Crown
Clemmie Churchill
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Richard's Agent
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Denial
Vera Reich
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Flowers
Hylda
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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London Spy
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Wolf Hall
Margaret Pole
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Sep 2013
By Any Means
Sally Walker
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Heading Out
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Ann
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Alex
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Call the Midwife
Sister Ursula
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Dec 2011
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Apr 2011
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La Loupiote
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The Young Victoria
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Law & Order: UK
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Jan 2009
Hunter
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Morris: A Life with Bells On
Professor Compton Chamberlayne
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Broken Lines
Leah
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Ballet Shoes
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10 Days to War
Anne Campbell
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Fairy Tales
Charlotte Brooks
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Abraham's Point
Pani Nemeth
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Feb 2007
Atonement
Emily Tallis
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Babel
Lilly
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Aug 2006
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Self
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Penelope Aylesbury
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Dec 2004
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May 2004
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Virginia Woolf
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Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Nov 2002
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
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Olive Burrell
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Arthouse
Self
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Mildred
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Margaret Winstanley
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Midsomer Murders
Diana Davenport
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Liz Flett
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Mary Waddell
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Sense and Sensibility
Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
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Charlotte
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Rachel
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Apr 1994
Hard Times
Rachel
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
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Jeannine Martin
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Giulia Lazzari
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Oct 1991
Performance
Dorothy Maitland
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They Never Slept
Amelia Cleverly
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Jan 1990
May Fools
Lily
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La nuit miraculeuse
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Jan 1989
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Mar 1987
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Harriet Vane
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Mar 1987
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Harriet Vane
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Jan 1987
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Dr. Esther Martin
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Harriet Sims
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Nov 1985
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Emmy Hooper
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Oct 1985
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Frances Carr
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The Price
Frances Carr
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Jan 1985
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Amy Johnson
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Varya
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The Imitation Game
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Rebecca
Clarice
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