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 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).
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Filmography
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Awards & recognition
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Interesting facts
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Full name - Harriet Mary Walter.
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On his mother's side, he is the nephew of British actor Sir Christopher Lee.
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Before getting into the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), she was rejected by the admissions committees of five different drama schools.
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In 2011, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (the Order consists of five classes of civil and military divisions in descending order of seniority), fourth degree (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire - DBE).
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In 2001, she received a doctorate from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford.
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She was awarded the Order of the British Empire, third degree (Commander of the Order of the British Empire - CBE), in 2000 for her acting achievements.
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On her father's side, she is the great-great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, the founder of the English newspaper The Times.
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In 1989, she was awarded one of the most prestigious theatre awards in the United Kingdom - the Laurence Olivier Award - as Best Actress.
Family & relationships
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