1. Harriet Walter has performed on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received an Olivier Award, and nominations for a Tony Award, five Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
28 Facts About Harriet Walter
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In 2011, Walter was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
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Harriet Walter began her career acting with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions of Twelfth Night and Three Sisters, for which she received the Olivier Award for Best Actress.
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Harriet Walter received Olivier nominations for Life x 3, and Mary Stuart.
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Harriet Walter made her Broadway debut in the 1983 revival of the William Shakespeare play All's Well That Ends Well.
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Harriet Walter returned to Broadway in Mary Stuart for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.
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Harriet Walter reprised her roles of Brutus in Julius Caesar and the title role in Henry IV, as well as playing Prospero in The Tempest, as part of an all-female Shakespeare trilogy in 2016.
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Harriet Walter has acted in the films Sense and Sensibility, The Governess, Atonement, The Young Victoria, A Royal Affair, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Denial, The Sense of an Ending, Rocketman and The Last Duel.
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Harriet Walter has acted in Downton Abbey, London Spy, The Crown, Patrick Melrose, Killing Eve, and Silo.
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Harriet Walter has earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in Succession and Ted Lasso.
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Harriet Walter is the niece of British actor Sir Christopher Lee, being the daughter of his elder sister Xandra Lee.
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On her father's side, Harriet Walter is a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of John Harriet Walter, founder of The Times.
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Harriet Walter worked with Royal Shakespeare Company productions Nicholas Nickleby, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, The Castle, A Question of Geography, Twelfth Night, Three Sisters, The Duchess of Malfi, Macbeth, Much Ado about Nothing and Death of a Salesman.
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In 1987, Harriet Walter was made an associate artist of the RSC.
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Harriet Walter made her Broadway debut in 1983, when the RSC production of All's Well That Ends Well transferred there.
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Harriet Walter returned to the Broadway stage in 2009, when she reprised her role in Mary Stuart.
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In 2014, Harriet Walter starred as Brutus in an all-female off-Broadway production of Julius Caesar and received her second Drama Desk nomination.
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Harriet Walter's films include Sense and Sensibility, Bedrooms and Hallways, The Governess, Onegin, Villa des Roses and Bright Young Things.
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In 2016, Harriet Walter played Clementine Churchill on the Netflix series The Crown, appeared in two episodes in 2017 in Call the Midwife and had a recurring role on the HBO series Succession.
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Harriet 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.
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Harriet Walter 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.
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On 14 January 2024 Harriet Walter announced that filming was underway for Paramount+ series Playing Gracie Darling, in the role of Pattie.
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Harriet Walter was in a relationship with actor Peter Blythe from 1996 until his death in 2004.
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At the age of 20, Harriet Walter became a feminist and went "into political theatre; to try and put as much feminism into the interpretation of parts I was playing".
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Harriet Walter supported the UK remaining in the European Union in the run-up to the 2016 EU referendum.
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Harriet Walter, who speaks Russian, performed a reading at the 2022 Poets for Ukraine event alongside the likes of Juliet Stevenson and Meera Syal.
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Harriet Walter is a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres; Prisoners Abroad, a charity that supports Britons imprisoned overseas and their families; and Clean Break, a charity and theatre company dedicated to sharing the stories of imprisoned women and transforming the lives of female offenders through theatre education.
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Harriet Walter was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2000 New Year Honours and promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to drama.