Highest rated as cast or director
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acted in 124
2020s
- 2027
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
Violet Venable
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
Bernarda Alba
- 2023
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
Elsie Leach · 4 episodes
On The Line
Shirley
- 2022
- 2021
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Duchess of Marlborough
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
Jo Patterson
- 2020
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Muriel · 1 episode
The End
Edie Henley · 10 episodes
2010s
- 2019
Curfew
Helen Newman · 8 episodes
- 2018
My Dinner with Hervé
Baskin
Julius Caesar
Brutus
Henry IV
Henry IV
The Tempest
Prospero
- 2017
- 2016
Flowers
Hylda · 5 episodes
- 2015
London Spy
Claire · 3 episodes
- 2014
The Assets
Jeanne Vertefeuille · 8 episodes
- 2013
By Any Means
Sally Walker · 1 episode
Heading Out
Angela · 2 episodes
- 2012
The Domino Effect
Ann
The Door
Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
TV
- 2011
- 2010
2000s
- 2009
A Short Stay in Switzerland
Clare
Hunter
ACC Jenny Griffin · 2 episodes
Morris: A Life with Bells On
Professor Compton Chamberlayne
- 2008
Broken Lines
Leah
10 Days to War
Anne Campbell · 1 episode
The Palace
Joanna Woodward · 1 episode
Abraham's Point
Pani Nemeth
- 2007
- 2006
- 2004
- 2003
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Mary Wollstonecraft
- 2002
Villa Des Roses
Olive Burrell
- 2001
My Uncle Silas
Pamela Farrell · 1 episode
Messiah
Professor Robb · 3 episodes
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
- 2000
Black Cab
Jane · 1 episode
1990s
- 1999
- 1998
The Governess
Mrs. Cavendish
- 1997
A Dance to the Music of Time
Mildred · 4 episodes
- 1996
- 1995
- 1994
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Charlotte
Hard Times
Rachel · 4 episodes
- 1993
The Maitlands
Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
The Hour of the Pig
Jeannine Martin
- 1991
The Men's Room
Charity Walton · 5 episodes
They Never Slept
Amelia Cleverly
- 1990
1980s
- 1989
La nuit miraculeuse
Movie
- 1987
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Harriet Vane · 10 episodes
- 1985
Turtle Diary
Harriet Sims
The Good Father
Emmy Hooper
Girls On Top
R.S.C. Actress 3 · 1 episode
The Price
Frances Carr
The Price
Frances Carr · 6 episodes
- 1984
Amy
Amy Johnson
- 1982
- 1981
The Cherry Orchard
Varya
- 1980
The Imitation Game
Cathy Raine
1970s
- 1979
Rebecca
Clarice · 1 episode
- 1970
Produced 1
2020s
- 2025
Appearances10
2020s
- 2024
- 2023
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020
2010s
- 2017
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Self · 1 episode
- 2016
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
- 2014
The Mysterious Mr Webster
Self - Interviewee
1990s
- 1993
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Narrator (voice)
