Harriet Walter
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 Nig...
Known For
Filmography
National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
2027
as Violet Venable
Shelter
2026
as Prime Minister Fordham
PONIES
2026
as Manya Caplan
Brian and Maggie
2025
as Margaret Thatcher
Playing Gracie Darling
2025
as Pattie Grey
And Mrs.
2024
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
as Bernarda Alba
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
as Self
On The Line
2023
as Shirley
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Silo
2023
as Martha Walker
Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
2023
as Elsie Leach
Burial
2022
as Anna Marshall
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Iris
This Is Going to Hurt
2022
as Veronique
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
as Duchess of Marlborough
The Last Duel
2021
as Nicole de Carrouges
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
as Jo Patterson
The Cleaner
2021
as Lisa
Herself
2020
as Peggy
Ted Lasso
2020
as Deborah Welton
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
2020
as Muriel
Belgravia
2020
as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
The End
2020
as Edie Henley
Rocketman
2019
as Helen Piena
Curfew
2019
as Helen Newman
The Spanish Princess
2019
as Margaret Beaufort
My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Baskin
Julius Caesar
2018
as Brutus
Henry IV
2018
as Henry IV
The Tempest
2018
as Prospero
Patrick Melrose
2018
as Princess Margaret
Killing Eve
2018
as Dasha Duzran
Succession
2018
as Lady Caroline Collingwood
Black Earth Rising
2018
as Eve Ashby
The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Margaret Webster
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
2017
as Self
Denial
2016
as Vera Reich
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
Mindhorn
2016
as Richard's Agent
The Crown
2016
as Clemmie Churchill
Flowers
2016
as Hylda
Suite Française
2015
as Viscountess Montmort
Man Up
2015
as Fran Patterson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Dr. Kalonia
Documentary Now!
2015
as Edwina
Wolf Hall
2015
as Margaret Pole
London Spy
2015
as Claire
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
as Self - Interviewee
The Assets
2014
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
Heading Out
2013
as Angela
By Any Means
2013
as Sally Walker
The Wedding Video
2012
as Alex
The Domino Effect
2012
as Ann
The Door
2012
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
A Royal Affair
2012
as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales
Call the Midwife
2012
as Sister Ursula
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
2012
Black Mirror
2011
as Judith Keyworth
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
2011
as Isobel Balmerino
Downton Abbey
2010
as Lady Shackleton
Chéri
2009
as La Loupiote
From Time to Time
2009
as Lady Gresham
The Young Victoria
2009
as Queen Adelaide
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
as Clare
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Law & Order: UK
2009
as Natalie Chandler
Hunter
2009
as ACC Jenny Griffin
Ballet Shoes
2008
as Dr. Smith
Abraham's Point
2008
as Pani Nemeth
Broken Lines
2008
as Leah
10 Days to War
2008
as Anne Campbell
Fairy Tales
2008
as Charlotte Brooks
Atonement
2007
as Emily Tallis
Babel
2006
as Lilly
Chromophobia
2006
as Penelope Aylesbury
The One Show
2006
as Self
London
2004
as Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Duchess
Who Do You Think You Are?
2004
as Self
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
as Mary Wollstonecraft
Bright Young Things
2003
as Lady Maitland
Villa Des Roses
2002
as Olive Burrell
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Spooks
2002
as Deep Throat
Macbeth
2001
as Lady Macbeth
Waking the Dead
2001
as Annie Keel
Messiah
2001
as Professor Robb
Black Cab
2000
as Jane
Onegin
1999
as Madame Larina
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999
as Queen Morag
The Governess
1998
as Mrs. Cavendish
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
as Sybil
Unfinished Business
1998
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Julia Comstock
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Margaret Winstanley
A Dance to the Music of Time
1997
as Mildred
Arthouse
1997
as Self
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Diana Davenport
The Leading Man
1996
as Liz Flett
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Mary Waddell
Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
as Charlotte
Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Jeannine Martin
The Maitlands
1993
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Narrator (voice)
They Never Slept
1991
as Amelia Cleverly
Performance
1991
as Dorothy Maitland
Ashenden
1991
as Giulia Lazzari
The Men's Room
1991
as Charity Walton
May Fools
1990
as Lily
Benefactors
1989
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
Inspector Morse
1987
as Dr. Esther Martin
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Harriet Vane
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
1987
as Harriet Vane
The Good Father
1985
as Emmy Hooper
Turtle Diary
1985
as Harriet Sims
The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
Girls On Top
1985
as R.S.C. Actress 3
The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
Screen Two
1985
as Amelia Cleverly
Screen Two
1985
as Jeannine Martin
Reflections
1984
as Ottilie Garinger
Amy
1984
as Amy Johnson
The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Varya
The Imitation Game
1980
Rebecca
1979
as Clarice
Tony Awards
1956
as Self - Nominee