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 Nig...
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Complete Filmography

And Mrs.
2024
as Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of t...

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
as Self
Aristocratic Italian roots, a close family connection to James Bond novelist Ian Fleming, wartime experiences in the British and Finnish military, pos...

The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
as Bernarda Alba
In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their f...

Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Viewers step inside the enchanting Osborne House, a place that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert cherished as their private refuge from the demands of ...

On The Line
2023
as Shirley
Alderney, Channel Islands. 1964. A telephone operator ends up being the pivotal piece of a drama unfurling which puts professional integrity, and rela...

Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
as Iris
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-secon...

Burial
2022
as Anna Marshall
Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the...

The Last Duel
2021
as Nicole de Carrouges
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
as Duchess of Marlborough
Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.

Herself
2020
as Peggy
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious...

Rocketman
2019
as Helen Piena
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership wit...

My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Baskin
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toti...

Julius Caesar
2018
as Brutus
The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles w...

Henry IV
2018
as Henry IV
Harriet Walter takes the lead in the second installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Featuring a diverse company of w...

The Tempest
2018
as Prospero
Phyllida Lloyd’s final installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy concludes with an all-female version of The Tempest starring Harriet Walter as Pr...

The Sense of an Ending
2017
as Margaret Webster
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Mindhorn
2016
as Richard's Agent
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer say...

Denial
2016
as Vera Reich
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
as Self - Performer
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversar...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
as Dr. Kalonia
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.

Man Up
2015
as Fran Patterson
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast anothe...

Suite Française
2015
as Viscountess Montmort
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they...
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
as Self - Interviewee
Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of a coachmaker who ended up rivalling Shakespeare.

The Domino Effect
2012
as Ann
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to ...

The Door
2012
as Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
A man of incredible wealth and power is haunted by a childhood memory.

The Wedding Video
2012
as Alex
When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim's best man at his wedding, he decides the best present for the happy newlyweds woul...

A Royal Affair
2012
as Augusta - Princess of Wales
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

From Time to Time
2009
as Lady Gresham
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an...

Chéri
2009
as La Loupiote
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of l...

The Young Victoria
2009
as Queen Adelaide
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mot...

A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
as Clare
Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life he...

Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
as Professor Compton Chamberlayne
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.

Broken Lines
2008
as Leah
After losing his father, an engaged man begins an affair with a waitress, both longing for happiness.

Ballet Shoes
2008
as Dr. Smith
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But ...

Abraham's Point
2008
as Pani Nemeth
A man struggles to get over a family tragedy that has haunted him since childhood.

Atonement
2007
as Emily Tallis
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

Babel
2006
as Lilly
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

Chromophobia
2006
as Penelope Aylesbury
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
as Mary Wollstonecraft
A drama telling the story of the life of the writer of Frankenstein; the 19-year-old Mary Shelley. Telling of her influences, her writing and her pers...

Bright Young Things
2003
as Lady Maitland
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the a...
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
as Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexu...

Villa Des Roses
2002
as Olive Burrell
In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she...

Macbeth
2001
as Lady Macbeth
Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the stag...

Onegin
1999
as Madame Larina
A virtuous and passionate girl falls in love with a cynical but a dashing aristocrat.

Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
as Sybil
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members...

The Governess
1998
as Mrs. Cavendish
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraw...

Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
as Julia Comstock
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits...

The Leading Man
1996
as Liz Flett
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a mas...

Sense and Sensibility
1995
as Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When H...

A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
as Charlotte
It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle class English married woman, he is an lonely Irish ...

Hard Times
1994
as Rachel
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cine...

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Narrator (voice)
Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

The Maitlands
1993
as Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.

The Hour of the Pig
1993
as Jeannine Martin
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and politic...

They Never Slept
1991
as Amelia Cleverly
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the Fre...

May Fools
1990
as Lily
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
Benefactors
1989
Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.

Turtle Diary
1985
as Harriet Sims
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd,...

The Good Father
1985
as Emmy Hooper
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so ...

The Price
1985
as Frances Carr
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daug...
Reflections
1984
as Ottilie Garinger
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
Amy
1984
as Amy Johnson
The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber

The Cherry Orchard
1981
as Varya
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay deb...

The Imitation Game
1980
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the...
Late in Summer
N/A
Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between a lonely farmer’s wife and a Black American GI that leads to first love...