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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.

Dame Harriet Walter DBE
Harriet Walter discussing the role of women in Shakespeare
Born	Harriet Mary Walter (1950-09-24) 24 September 1950 (age 72) London, England
Alma mater	London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1974–present
Spouse	Guy Paul ​ (m. 2011)​
Partner	Peter Blythe (1996–2004; his death)
Relatives	Christopher Lee (maternal uncle) Marie Carandini (great-great-grandmother) John Walter (great-great-great-grandfather)

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 Harriet Vane in the 1987 BBC Wimsey dramatisations, 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).

Early life

Walter was born in London, England. She is the niece of British actor Sir Christopher Lee,[1] being the daughter of his elder sister Xandra Lee. On her father's side, she is a great-great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The Times.[2] She was educated at Cranborne Chase School. After turning down a university education, she was in turn rejected by five different drama schools before being admitted to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.[3] Following her training she gained early experience with the Joint Stock Theatre Company, Paines Plough touring, and the Duke's Playhouse, Lancaster.[4]

Career

She has worked many times throughout her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in productions including Nicholas Nickleby (1980), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981), as Helena in All's Well That Ends Well (1981), The Castle (1985), Dasha in A Question of Geography, Viola in Twelfth Night (1988), Masha in Three Sisters (1988), The Duchess of Malfi (1989), Macbeth (1999) and Much Ado about Nothing (2002). She returned to the RSC in 2015 to play Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, directed by Gregory Doran.

She was made an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1987. Her other theatre work includes Three Birds Alighting on a Field (1991), Arcadia (1993), Hedda Gabler (1996), Ivanov (1997) and Mary Stuart (2005).

In New York, she made her Broadway debut in 1983, when the RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well transferred there. In 1993 she starred as Biddy in the Off-Broadway production of Three Birds Alighting on a Field, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She returned to the Broadway stage in 2009 when she and Janet McTeer reprised their roles in Mary Stuart. In 2014 Walter starred as Brutus in an all-female production of Julius Caesar Off-Broadway and received her second Drama Desk nomination.

Her films include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), The Governess (1998), Onegin (1999), Villa des Roses (2002) and Bright Young Things (2003). On television, in 1987, she portrayed Lord Peter Wimsey's love interest Harriet Vane for three instalments of the BBC's A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery, played Detective Inspector Natalie Chandler from 2009 to 2012 in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK. Other TV roles include Annie Keel in the 2001 series Waking the Dead, Mrs. Gowan in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit, Clare in A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009) and Lady Shackleton in four episodes of the series Downton Abbey (2013–15).[5] In 2016, she played Clementine Churchill on the Netflix series The Crown, and in 2017, appeared in two episodes of the BBC drama Call the Midwife as Sister Ursula.

She is also a patron of several notable charities; the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres,[6] Prisoners Abroad, a charity that supports the welfare of Britons imprisoned overseas and their families and Clean Break, a charity and theatre company dedicated to sharing the often hidden stories of imprisoned women, and to transforming the lives of women offenders and—through theatre education—of women at risk of offending.

Walter played Brutus in Julius Caesar in 2012, and the title role in Henry IV in 2014, in all-female productions at the Donmar Warehouse. Both productions transferred to Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. She was set to reprise both roles, as well as playing Prospero in an all-female production of The Tempest, as part of director Phyllida Lloyd's Shakespeare trilogy at the Donmar's temporary, in-the-round, 420-seat theatre next to King's Cross station in 2016.

On 19 August 2019 Deadline reported that Walter would be joining the cast of the BBC America and AMC series Killing Eve.[7] Walter played Dasha, a Russian exile and former Olympics gymnastics champion who trained Villanelle in assassination.[8]

Personal life

From 1996 until his death in 2004, Walter's partner was actor Peter Blythe.[9] In 2009, she met actor Guy Paul. They married in May 2011.[10]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Reflections	Ottilie Garinger
1985	The Good Father	Emmy Hooper
	Turtle Diary	Harriet Simms
1990	May Fools	Lily
1993	The Hour of the Pig	Jeannie Martin
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Fanny Dashwood
1996	The Leading Man	Liz Flett
1997	Keep the Aspidistra Flying	Julia Comstock
1998	Bedrooms and Hallways	Sybil
	The Governess	Mrs. Cavendish
1999	Onegin	Madame Larina
2002	Villa des Roses	Olive Burrell
2003	Bright Young Things	Lady Maitland
2005	Chromophobia	Penelope Aylesbury
2006	Babel	Lilly
2007	Atonement	Emily Tallis
2009	Chéri	La Loupiote
	The Young Victoria	Queen Adelaide
	Morris: A Life with Bells On	Professor Compton Chamberlayne
	From Time to Time	Lady Dresham
2012	A Royal Affair	Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
	The Wedding Video	Alex
2014	Suite Française	Viscountess de Montmort
2015	Man Up	Fran
	Star Wars: The Force Awakens	Kalonia
2016	Denial	Vera Reich
	Mindhorn	Agent
2017	The Sense of an Ending	Margaret
2019	Rocketman	Helena Piena
2020	Herself	Peggy
2021	The Last Duel	Nicole de Buchard
2022	Your Christmas or Mine?

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Rebecca	Clarice	Episode #1.3
1980	The Imitation Game	Cathy Raine	Television film
1981	The Cherry Orchard	Varya	Television film
1984	Amy	Amy Johnson	Television film
1985	The Price	Frances Carr	6 episodes
1986	Girls on Top	R.S.C. Actress 3	Episode: "Mr. Yummy Brownie"
1987	A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery	Harriet Vane	Main cast, 10 episodes
1989	Theatre Night	Sheila	Episode: "Benefactors"
1991	Screen Two	Amelia Cleverly	Episode: "They Never Slept"
1991	The Men's Room	Charity Walton	Miniseries, 5 episodes
1991	Ashenden	Giulia Lazzari	Episode: "The Dark Woman"
1993	Inspector Morse	Dr. Esther Martin	Episode: "The Day of the Devil"
1993	Performance	Mrs. Dorothy Maitland	Episode: "The Maitlands"
1994	Hard Times	Rachel	4 episodes
1997	A Dance to the Music of Time	Mildred	Episode: "The Thirties"
1998–1999	Unfinished Business	Amy	Main cast, 12 episodes
1999	Dalziel and Pascoe	Mary Waddell	Episode: "Time to Go"
1999	The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns	Queen Morag	Television film
2001	Waking the Dead	Annie Keel	2 episodes
2003	My Uncle Silas	Pamela Farrell	Episode: "Shandy Lil"
2004	London	Virginia Woolf	2 episodes
2004	Imagine	Mother	Episode: "The Smoking Diaries"
2004	Spooks	Deep Throat	Episode: "Who Guards the Guards?"
2005	New Tricks	Madeline	Episode: "Trust Me"
2005	Messiah	Professor Robb	3 episodes
2005–2013	Midsomer Murders	Margaret Winstanley / Diana Davenport	2 episodes
2006	Agatha Christie's Marple	Duchess of Malfi	Episode: "Sleeping Murder"
2006	Doctors	Annie Fenton	4 episodes
2007	Trial & Retribution	The Judge	Episode: "Paradise Lost: Part 1"
2007	Five Days	ACC Jennie Griffin	3 episodes
2007	Ballet Shoes	Dr. Smith	Television film
2008	The Palace	Joanna Woodward	Episode #1.1
2008	Fairy Tales	Charlotte Brooks	Episode: "Cinderella"
2008	10 Days to War	Anne Campbell	Episode: "Failure Is Not an Option"
2008	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Miss Bulstrode	Episode: "Cat Among the Pigeons"
2008	Little Dorrit	Mrs. Gowan	Miniseries, 4 episodes
2009	Hunter	ACC Jenny Griffin	Miniseries, 2 episodes
2009	A Short Stay in Switzerland	Clare	Television film
2009–2014	Law & Order: UK	Natalie Chandler	Main cast, 40 episodes
2013–2015	Downton Abbey	Lady Shackleton	Recurring role, 4 episodes
2013	Heading Out	Angela	2 episodes
2013	By Any Means	Sally Walker	Episode #1.4
2014	The Assets	Jeanne Vertefeuille	Miniseries, 8 episodes
2015	London Spy	Claire	Miniseries, 3 episodes
2016	The Crown	Clementine Churchill	Recurring role, 6 episodes
2017	Call the Midwife	Sister Ursula	3 episodes
2017	Black Sails	Marion Guthrie	3 episodes
2018	Patrick Melrose	Princess Margaret	Episode: "Some Hope"
2018	Flowers	Hylda	Main cast, 5 episodes
2018	Black Earth Rising	Eve Ashby	2 episodes
2018	My Dinner with Hervé	Baskin	Television film
2018–present	Succession	Lady Caroline Collingwood	3 episodes
2019	Curfew	Helen Newman	4 episodes
2019	The Spanish Princess	Lady Margaret Beaufort	Miniseries, 8 episodes
2020	The End	Edie	10 episodes
2020	Belgravia	Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst	6 episodes
2020	Killing Eve	Dasha	7 episodes
2020	Talking Heads	Muriel	Episode: "Soldiering On"
2021	Doctor Who	Prime Minister Jo Patterson	Episode: "Revolution of the Daleks"
2021	Ted Lasso	Deborah	2 episodes
2022	This Is Going to Hurt	Veronique	Recurring character[11]
TBA	Wool	Martha Walker	Upcoming series[12]

Theatre

notable performances

• 1979, Royal Shakespeare Company, A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1981/82, Royal Shakespeare Company, Helena in All's Well That Ends Well
• 1987/88, Royal Shakespeare Company, Imogen in Cymbeline
• 1987/88, Royal Shakespeare Company, Viola in Twelfth Night[13]
• 1987/88, Royal Shakespeare Company, Dacha in A Question of Geography
• 1988, Royal Shakespeare Company, Masha in Chekhov's Three Sisters
• 1989/90, Royal Shakespeare Company, Duchess in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi
• 1991, Royal Court Theatre (and Broadway transfer), Biddy in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Three Birds Alighting on a Field
• 1993, Royal National Theatre, Lady Croom in Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
• 1999 Royal Shakespeare Company, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth
• 2002 Royal National Theatre Paige in Dinner by Moira Buffini, co-starring Nicholas Farrell and Catherine McCormack
• 2005, Donmar Warehouse and West End, Mary Stuart by Schiller[4]
• 2006, Royal Shakespeare Company, Antony and Cleopatra
• 2009, Mary Stuart, Broadway transfer
• 2010, Royal National Theatre, Women Beware Women
• 2012/13 Donmar Warehouse, Brutus in Julius Caesar[14]
• 2014, Donmar Warehouse, King Henry IV in Henry IV.
• 2015, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Noël Coward Theatre, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman
• 2016, Donmar Warehouse, Prospero in The Tempest.[15]

Radio

• Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
• The Vortex by Noël Coward, BBC Radio 3, 2 January 2000, as Florence Lancaster
• Scenes of Seduction, radio play written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by Ned Chaillet, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 7 March 2005 – Catherine.[16]
• Desmond Olivier Dingle (as herself), broadcast on BBC7 on 28 February 2007, episode 2 of 6, duration 30 minutes
• The Arts and How they was done (as herself), broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 4 April and 9 May 2007, episodes 1 and 6 out of 6, duration 30 minutes
• I, Claudius, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 December 2010 – Livia, wife of Augustus.
• Guest in Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 on 26 June 2011.
• Time and the Conways as Mrs. Conway in BBC Radio 3's adaptation of J.B. Priestley's play, broadcast on 14 September 2014.

Honours

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours[17][4] and promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to drama.[18]

In 2001 she and Kenneth Branagh were both given honorary doctorates and honorary fellowships at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford.

Her performance in Mary Stuart at the Donmar Warehouse transferred to Broadway, where it was nominated for numerous Tony Awards, including Best Actress nods for her and her co-star Janet McTeer.[19]

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result
1988	Laurence Olivier	Best Actress in a Revival	A Question of Geography / Twelfth Night / Three Sisters	Won
1994	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Three Birds Alighting on a Field	Nominated
2001	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Actress	Life x 3	Nominated
2005	Evening Standard Award	Best Actress	Mary Stuart	Won
2006	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Actress		Nominated
2009	Tony Award	Best Actress in a Play		Nominated
2014	Drama Desk Award	Outstanding Actress in a Play	Julius Caesar	Nominated
2016	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series	The Crown	Nominated
2020	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series	Succession	Nominated
2022				Nominated
		Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Ted Lasso	Nominated

Bibliography

• Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare's Women Today (1988). Women's Press, ISBN 0-7043-4145-X.
• Players of Shakespeare 3 (1994). Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-47734-5.
• Macbeth (Actors on Shakespeare) (2002). Faber and Faber, London. ISBN 0-571-21407-X
• Other People's Shoes (2003). Nick Hern Books, London. ISBN 1-85459-751-5. Autobiography.
• Facing It, Reflections on Images of Older Women (2010). Self Published, London. ISBN 978-0-9566497-1-3
• Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare's Roles for Women (2016). Nick Hern Books, London. ISBN 978-1-84842-293-3

References

External links

• Harriet Walter at IMDb
• Company Members : Harriet Walter at the Royal National Theatre
• Official website
• Facingitpublications.co.uk

На других языках

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[de] Harriet Walter

Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE (* 24. September 1950 in London) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Harriet Walter

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[es] Harriet Walter

Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE (Londres, Inglaterra; 24 de septiembre de 1950) es una actriz británica, más conocida por sus numerosas participaciones en teatro, cine y televisión, y actualmente por interpretar a Natalie Chandler en la serie Law & Order: UK y a Clementine Churchill en The Crown.

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[ru] Уолтер, Гарриет

Дама Га́рриет Уо́лтер (англ. Harriet Walter; род. 24 сентября 1950, Лондон, Великобритания) — британская актриса.

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