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Harriet Walter

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1950-09-24

Birth Place

London, England, UK

Movies and TV shows :

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10 Days to War

2008

6.0

TV
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A Dance to the Music of Time

1997

5.3

TV
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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

1987

7.1

TV
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

1994

2.0

Movie
A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair

2012

7.4

Movie
A Short Stay in Switzerland

A Short Stay in Switzerland

2009

6.9

Movie
Abraham's Point

Abraham's Point

2008

4.0

Movie
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Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

7.6

TV
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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

2020

8.1

TV
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

2021

0.0

Movie
Amy

Amy

1984

10.0

Movie
And Mrs

And Mrs

2024

6.0

Movie
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Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant

2023

6.7

TV
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Arthouse

1997

0.0

TV
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Ashenden

1991

6.0

TV
Atonement

Atonement

2007

7.6

Movie
Babel

Babel

2006

7.2

Movie
Ballet Shoes

Ballet Shoes

2008

6.4

Movie
Bedrooms and Hallways

Bedrooms and Hallways

1998

6.2

Movie
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Belgravia

2020

7.1

TV
Benefactors

Benefactors

1989

2.0

Movie
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Black Earth Rising

2018

6.8

TV
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Brian and Margaret

0.0

TV
Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things

2003

6.3

Movie
Broken Lines

Broken Lines

2008

6.0

Movie
Burial

Burial

2022

5.2

Movie
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By Any Means

2013

6.5

TV
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Call the Midwife

2012

7.5

TV
Chéri

Chéri

2009

6.1

Movie
Chromophobia

Chromophobia

2006

5.3

Movie
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Curfew

2019

5.6

TV
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Dalziel & Pascoe

1996

6.3

TV
Denial

Denial

2016

6.9

Movie
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Doctor Who

2005

7.5

TV
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Documentary Now!

2015

7.0

TV
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Downton Abbey

2010

8.1

TV
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Fairy Tales

2008

0.0

TV
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

2003

8.7

Movie
From Time to Time

From Time to Time

2009

6.3

Movie
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

2002

3.0

Movie
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Girls On Top

1985

4.8

TV
Hard Times

Hard Times

1994

7.0

Movie
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Hard Times

1994

0.0

TV
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Heading Out

2013

5.7

TV
Henry IV

Henry IV

2018

0.0

Movie
Herself

Herself

2020

6.8

Movie
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Hunter

2009

7.3

TV
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Inspector Morse

1987

7.8

TV
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

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

1993

10.0

Movie
Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

2018

8.5

Movie
Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997

6.0

Movie
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Killing Eve

2018

7.9

TV
Late in Summer

Late in Summer

0.0

Movie
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Law & Order: UK

2009

6.8

TV
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London

2004

0.0

TV
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London Spy

2015

7.0

TV
Macbeth

Macbeth

2001

6.6

Movie
Man Up

Man Up

2015

6.6

Movie
May Fools

May Fools

1990

6.9

Movie
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Messiah

2001

7.2

TV
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Midsomer Murders

1997

7.5

TV
Mindhorn

Mindhorn

2016

6.1

Movie
Morris: A Life with Bells On

Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009

6.5

Movie
My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

2018

6.3

Movie
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My Uncle Silas

2001

7.0

TV
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba

National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba

2024

8.0

Movie
On The Line

On The Line

2023

6.0

Movie
Onegin

Onegin

1999

6.2

Movie
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat

2023

0.0

Movie
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Patrick Melrose

2018

7.5

TV
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Performance

1991

6.0

TV
Reflections

Reflections

1984

4.5

Movie
Rocketman

Rocketman

2019

7.3

Movie
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Screen Two

1985

6.8

TV
Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

1995

7.4

Movie
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

7.5

Movie
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Silo

2023

8.2

TV
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Simon Schama's Shakespeare

2012

0.0

TV
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Spooks

2002

7.6

TV
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2015

7.3

Movie
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Succession

2018

8.3

TV
Suite Française

Suite Française

2015

7.3

Movie
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Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

2017

0.0

TV
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Ted Lasso

2020

8.4

TV
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The Assets

2014

6.9

TV
The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard

1981

0.0

Movie
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The Cleaner

2021

7.0

TV
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The Crown

2016

8.2

TV
The Domino Effect

The Domino Effect

2012

5.0

Movie
The Door

The Door

2012

0.0

Movie
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The End

2020

6.1

TV
The Good Father

The Good Father

1985

5.7

Movie
The Governess

The Governess

1998

5.9

Movie
The Hour of the Pig

The Hour of the Pig

1993

6.2

Movie
The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game

1980

7.1

Movie
The Last Duel

The Last Duel

2021

7.4

Movie
The Leading Man

The Leading Man

1996

5.2

Movie
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

2024

7.7

Movie
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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

1999

7.0

TV
The Maitlands

The Maitlands

1993

0.0

Movie
The Mysterious Mr Webster

The Mysterious Mr Webster

2014

6.0

Movie
The Price

The Price

1985

0.0

Movie
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The Price

1985

5.0

TV
The Secret Life of Flowers

The Secret Life of Flowers

2017

5.5

Movie
The Sense of an Ending

The Sense of an Ending

2017

6.4

Movie
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The Spanish Princess

2019

7.6

TV
The Tempest

The Tempest

2018

0.0

Movie
The Wedding Video

The Wedding Video

2012

5.4

Movie
The Young Victoria

The Young Victoria

2009

7.2

Movie
They Never Slept

They Never Slept

1991

0.0

Movie
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This Is Going to Hurt

2022

7.7

TV
Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary

1985

6.6

Movie
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Unfinished Business

1998

0.0

TV
Villa Des Roses

Villa Des Roses

2002

5.3

Movie
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Waking the Dead

2001

7.2

TV
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Wolf Hall

2015

7.6

TV
Your Christmas or Mine?

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022

6.4

Movie