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Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

Known for ActingBorn 1950-09-24 (age 75)London, England, UK
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.Read more

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London
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London

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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
10.0
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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

1987 · Series

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster9.0
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Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

2003 · Movie

Julius Caesar8.5
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Julius Caesar

2018 · Movie

Ted Lasso8.3
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Ted Lasso

2020 · Series

Succession8.3
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Succession

2018 · Series

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II8.5
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

1993 · Movie

Black Mirror8.3
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Black Mirror

2011 · Series

Silo8.2
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Silo

2023 · Series

The Crown8.2
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2016 · Series

Downton Abbey8.1
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Downton Abbey

2010 · Series

Amy8.3
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Amy

1984 · Movie

Killing Eve7.9
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Killing Eve

2018 · Series

Black Cab8.0
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Black Cab

2000 · Series

Shelter7.6
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Shelter

2026 · Movie

Agatha Christie's Marple7.8
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Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 · Series

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee7.6
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2024 · Movie

This Is Going to Hurt7.6
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2022 · Series

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads7.6
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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

2020 · Series

Inspector Morse7.9
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Inspector Morse

1987 · Series

Spooks7.7
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Spooks

2002 · Series

Patrick Melrose7.5
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Patrick Melrose

2018 · Series

The Spanish Princess7.5
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2019 · Series

Atonement7.6
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Atonement

2007 · Movie

Wolf Hall7.5
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Wolf Hall

2015 · Series

The Last Duel7.4
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The Last Duel

2021 · Movie

Call the Midwife7.5
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Call the Midwife

2012 · Series

Hard Times7.7
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Hard Times

1994 · Movie

The Imitation Game7.8
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The Imitation Game

1980 · Movie

Rocketman7.3
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Rocketman

2019 · Movie

Flowers7.3
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Flowers

2016 · Series

A Royal Affair7.3
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A Royal Affair

2012 · Movie

Midsomer Murders7.5
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Midsomer Murders

1997 · Series

Brian and Maggie7.2
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Brian and Maggie

2025 · Series

Star Wars: The Force Awakens7.2
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015 · Movie

Suite Française7.2
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Suite Française

2015 · Movie

Hunter7.3
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Hunter

2009 · Series

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC7.2
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016 · Movie

Sense and Sensibility7.4
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Sense and Sensibility

1995 · Movie

Messiah7.3
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Messiah

2001 · Series

The Price7.5
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The Price

1985 · Series

The Young Victoria7.2
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The Young Victoria

2009 · Movie

Rebecca7.5
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Rebecca

1979 · Series

Documentary Now!7.1
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Documentary Now!

2015 · Series

Babel7.2
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Babel

2006 · Movie

Belgravia7.0
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Belgravia

2020 · Series

Waking the Dead7.2
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Waking the Dead

2001 · Series

The Cleaner7.0
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The Cleaner

2021 · Series