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National Theatre at Home: Suddenly Last Summer
2027
Harriet Walter
Acting
Born September 24, 1950London, England, UK
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harriet Walter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
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7.7
Shelter
2026
5.5
And Mrs.
2024
7.5
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee
2024
4.5
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
2024
0.0
Osborne House: A Royal Retreat
2023
5.6
On The Line
2023
6.4
Your Christmas or Mine?
2022
5.3
Burial
2022
7.4
The Last Duel
2021
0.0
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
2021
6.0
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks
2021
6.7
Herself
2020
7.3
Rocketman
2019
6.3
My Dinner with Hervé
2018
8.5
Julius Caesar
2018
0.0
Henry IV
2018
0.0
The Tempest
2018
6.3
The Sense of an Ending
2017
6.1
Mindhorn
2016
6.8
Denial
2016
7.4
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016
7.2
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2015
6.6
Man Up
2015
7.2
Suite Française
2015
6.0
The Mysterious Mr Webster
2014
5.0
The Domino Effect
2012
0.0
The Door
2012
5.5
The Wedding Video
2012
7.3
A Royal Affair
2012
6.3
From Time to Time
2009
6.1
Chéri
2009
7.2
The Young Victoria
2009
6.9
A Short Stay in Switzerland
2009
6.5
Morris: A Life with Bells On
2009
3.5
Broken Lines
2008
6.3
Ballet Shoes
2008
4.0
Abraham's Point
2008
7.6
Atonement
2007
7.2
Babel
2006
5.2
Chromophobia
2006
9.0
Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
2003
6.3
Bright Young Things
2003
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
4.0
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
2002
5.2
Villa Des Roses
2002
6.6
Macbeth
2001
6.1
Onegin
1999
Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
0.0
Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
1998
6.1
Bedrooms and Hallways
1998
5.8
The Governess
1998
6.0
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1997
5.0
The Leading Man
1996
7.4
Sense and Sensibility
1995
3.7
A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
1994
8.5
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
0.0
The Maitlands
1993
6.2
The Hour of the Pig
1993
0.0
They Never Slept
1991
6.9
May Fools
1990
7.0
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
Benefactors
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Benefactors
1989
Omnibus: Caryl Churchill
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Omnibus: Caryl Churchill
1988
6.3
Turtle Diary
1985
5.6
The Good Father
1985
0.0
The Price
1985
Reflections
5.2
Reflections
1984
8.3
Amy
1984
7.0
The Cherry Orchard
1981
7.9
The Imitation Game
1980
Late in Summer
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Late in Summer
Margot & Rudi
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Margot & Rudi
TV Shows
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Youth
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PONIES
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Playing Gracie Darling
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Brian and Maggie
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Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
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Silo
7.6
This Is Going to Hurt
6.9
The Cleaner
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
8.7
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
8.4
Ted Lasso
7.6
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
7.1
Belgravia
6.2
The End
7.5
The Spanish Princess
5.6
Curfew
6.5
Black Earth Rising
8.3
Succession
7.5
Patrick Melrose
7.9
Killing Eve
0.0
Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
8.2
The Crown
7.4
Flowers
7.0
London Spy
7.2
Documentary Now!
7.5
Wolf Hall
7.6
Black Sails
6.9
The Assets
6.6
By Any Means
5.4
Heading Out
10.0
Simon Schama's Shakespeare
7.6
Call the Midwife
8.3
Black Mirror
6.3
Rosamunde Pilcher's Shades of Love
8.1
Downton Abbey
7.0
Law & Order: UK
7.3
Hunter
7.9
Little Dorrit
6.4
10 Days to War
7.0
The Palace
0.0
Fairy Tales
5.8
Five Days
4.3
The One Show
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
7.0
Who Do You Think You Are?
London
10.0
London
7.3
New Tricks
7.7
Spooks
8.5
My Uncle Silas
7.2
Waking the Dead
7.4
Messiah
8.0
Black Cab
4.8
Doctors
7.0
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Unfinished Business
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Unfinished Business
Arthouse
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Arthouse
6.8
Trial & Retribution
5.9
A Dance to the Music of Time
7.5
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Midsomer Murders
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
Secret Lives
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Secret Lives
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Hard Times
Ashenden
6.0
Ashenden
6.3
Performance
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The Men's Room
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
7.2
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
10.0
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
7.9
Inspector Morse
5.4
Girls On Top
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Theatre Night
7.5
The Price
7.1
Screen Two
7.1
Screen Two
6.9
Timewatch
7.5
Rebecca
6.6
Play for Today
0.0
Tony Awards
Maya
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