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Harriet Walter

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74 Years Old

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.

Born

London, England, UK on 24th September 1950

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Midsomer Murders
Diana Davenport
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Midsomer Murders
Margaret Winstanley
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Black Mirror
Judith Keyworth
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Silo
Martha Walker
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Downton Abbey
Lady Shackleton
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The Crown
Clemmie Churchill
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Succession
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Ted Lasso
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Call the Midwife
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Waking the Dead
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Killing Eve
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This Is Going to Hurt
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Screen Two
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Agatha Christie's Marple
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Law & Order: UK
Natalie Chandler
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Tony Awards
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The One Show
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Patrick Melrose
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Belgravia
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Wolf Hall
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The Spanish Princess
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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
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Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
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The Cleaner
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The End
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By Any Means
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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10 Days to War
Anne Campbell
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Atonement
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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Harriet Vane
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The Last Duel
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Sense and Sensibility
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Rocketman
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Messiah
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Babel
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The Young Victoria
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A Dance to the Music of Time
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Man Up
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Brian and Maggie
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A Royal Affair
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Denial
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The Assets
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Suite Française
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And Mrs.
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London
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Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
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Burial
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Simon Schama's Shakespeare
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Onegin
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Bright Young Things
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My Uncle Silas
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The Sense of an Ending
Margaret Webster
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Hunter
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A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Harriet Vane
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Ballet Shoes
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Chéri
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Your Christmas or Mine?
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The Good Father
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From Time to Time
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The Hour of the Pig
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My Dinner with Hervé
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The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
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The Governess
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Richard's Agent
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Herself
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The Wedding Video
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The Leading Man
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May Fools
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Bedrooms and Hallways
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Self - Performer
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Julius Caesar
Brutus
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Chromophobia
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A Short Stay in Switzerland
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The Price
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The Domino Effect
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Hard Times
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Morris: A Life with Bells On
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
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Broken Lines
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Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
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Turtle Diary
Harriet Sims
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On The Line
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The Imitation Game
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Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
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They Never Slept
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The Door
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Abraham's Point
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The House of Bernarda Alba
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The Tempest
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Villa Des Roses
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
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Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
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The Price
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The Cherry Orchard
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Henry IV
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Amy Johnson
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The Maitlands
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Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
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