Harriet Walter

ActorProducer Sep 24 (age 75) London, England, UK 1956–2026 (70 year career)

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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

Film

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Dr. Kalonia

Film

Atonement

Emily Tallis

Film

Rocketman

Helen Piena

Film

Silo

Martha Walker

Film

The Last Duel

Nicole de Carrouges

Film

Babel

Lilly

Film

Killing Eve

Dasha Duzran

Film

Sense and Sensibility

Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

Filmography

Acting (129)

Movies (68)

Shelter

2026

as Prime Minister Fordham

6.7

And Mrs.

2024

as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn

5.4

The House of Bernarda Alba

2024

as Bernarda Alba

4.5

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee

2024

as Self

7.5

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat

2023

as Self - Narrator (voice)

On The Line

as Shirley

Burial

as Anna Marshall

Your Christmas or Mine?

2022

as Iris

6.4

The Last Duel

2021

as Nicole de Carrouges

7.4

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius

2021

as Duchess of Marlborough

Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks

2021

as Jo Patterson

Herself

as Peggy

Rocketman

as Helen Piena

The Tempest

as Prospero

My Dinner with Hervé

2018

as Baskin

6.2

Henry IV

2018

as Henry IV

Julius Caesar

2018

as Brutus

8.5

The Sense of an Ending

as Margaret Webster

Mindhorn

as Richard's Agent

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

as Self - Performer

Denial

as Vera Reich

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

as Dr. Kalonia

Man Up

as Fran Patterson

Suite Française

as Viscountess Montmort

7.2

The Mysterious Mr Webster

2014

as Self - Interviewee

6.0

A Royal Affair

2012

as Augusta - Prinsesse af Wales

7.4

The Door

2012

as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes

The Wedding Video

as Alex

The Domino Effect

as Ann

Chéri

as La Loupiote

A Short Stay in Switzerland

as Clare

The Young Victoria

as Queen Adelaide

From Time to Time

as Lady Gresham

Morris: A Life with Bells On

2009

as Professor Compton Chamberlayne

Ballet Shoes

as Dr. Smith

Abraham's Point

as Pani Nemeth

Broken Lines

as Leah

Atonement

as Emily Tallis

Babel

as Lilly

Chromophobia

as Penelope Aylesbury

5.2

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster

2003

as Mary Wollstonecraft

Bright Young Things

as Lady Maitland

Villa Des Roses

as Olive Burrell

George Eliot: A Scandalous Life

2002

as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot

Macbeth

as Lady Macbeth

Onegin

as Madame Larina

The Governess

as Mrs. Cavendish

Bedrooms and Hallways

1998

as Sybil

6.0

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

as Julia Comstock

The Leading Man

as Liz Flett

Sense and Sensibility

1995

as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood

7.4

Hard Times

1994

as Rachel

7.0

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

1994

as Charlotte

2.0

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

1993

as Narrator (voice)

10.0

The Maitlands

1993

as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland

The Hour of the Pig

1993

as Jeannine Martin

6.1

They Never Slept

1991

as Amelia Cleverly

May Fools

as Lily

La nuit miraculeuse

Benefactors

Turtle Diary

as Harriet Sims

The Good Father

as Emmy Hooper

The Price

as Frances Carr

Reflections

as Ottilie Garinger

Amy

as Amy Johnson

The Cherry Orchard

as Varya

The Imitation Game

1980

7.1

Late in Summer

Television (61)

PONIES

2026

as Manya Caplan

7.2

Playing Gracie Darling

as Pattie Grey

Brian and Maggie

as Margaret Thatcher

Silo

as Martha Walker

Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant

2023

as Elsie Leach

6.2

This Is Going to Hurt

as Veronique

The Cleaner

as Lisa

Ted Lasso

as Deborah

Belgravia

as Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst

7.0

The End

2020

as Edie Henley

6.2

Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

as Muriel

The Spanish Princess

as Margaret Beaufort

Curfew

as Helen Newman

Succession

as Lady Caroline Collingwood

Killing Eve

as Dasha Duzran

Patrick Melrose

as Princess Margaret

Black Earth Rising

as Eve Ashby

Tate Britain's Great Art Walks

2017

as Self

The Crown

as Clemmie Churchill

Flowers

as Hylda

Documentary Now!

as Edwina

London Spy

as Claire

Wolf Hall

as Margaret Pole

The Assets

as Jeanne Vertefeuille

By Any Means

as Sally Walker

Heading Out

as Angela

Call the Midwife

as Sister Ursula

Simon Schama's Shakespeare

2012

Black Mirror

2011

as Judith Keyworth

8.3

Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love

as Isobel Balmerino

Downton Abbey

as Lady Shackleton

Law & Order: UK

as Natalie Chandler

Hunter

as ACC Jenny Griffin

10 Days to War

as Anne Campbell

Fairy Tales

as Charlotte Brooks

The One Show

as Self

Doctor Who

as Jo Patterson

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Duchess

7.8

London

2004

as Virginia Woolf

Spooks

as Deep Throat

Waking the Dead

as Annie Keel

Messiah

as Professor Robb

My Uncle Silas

as Pamela Farrell

Black Cab

as Jane

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

as Queen Morag

Unfinished Business

Midsomer Murders

as Margaret Winstanley

7.5

A Dance to the Music of Time

1997

as Mildred

4.3

Arthouse

1997

as Self

Dalziel & Pascoe

1996

6.3

Hard Times

1994

as Rachel

Performance

as Dorothy Maitland

Ashenden

as Giulia Lazzari

Inspector Morse

as Dr. Esther Martin

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

1987

as Harriet Vane

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery

as Harriet Vane

Screen Two

as Amelia Cleverly

Girls On Top

as R.S.C. Actress 3

The Price

as Frances Carr

Rebecca

as Clarice

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Brian and Maggie

2025

Executive Producer

7.3