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 198788 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 allfemale 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 Scotts The Last Duel 2021 On television she starred as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series Law Order UK 200914 in four episodes of Downton Abbey 201315 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 threetime Primetime Emmy Award nominee two for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for Succession 201821 and one for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Ted Lasso 2021 Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia