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Harriet Walter's Past Work

FILM

A ROYAL AFFAIR, THE DOMINO EFFECT, FROM TIME TO TIME, CHERI, ABRAHAM’S POINT, YOUNG VICTORIA, THERE FOR ME, MORRIS: A LIFE WITH BELLS ON, ATONEMENT, BABEL, CHROMOPHOBIA, BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, VILLA DES ROSES, ONEGIN, BEDROOMS AND HALLWAYS, KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA, FLYING, THE GOVERNESS, THE LEADING MAN, SENSE & SENSIBILITY, THE HOUR OF THE PIG, MILOU EN MAI, THE GOOD FATHER, TURTLE DIARY, REFLECTIONS

TELEVISION

THIS SEPTEMBER, HUNTER, LAW AND ORDER, A SHORT STAY IN SWITZERLAND, LITTLE DORRIT, CAT AMONGST THE PIGEONS, BALLET SHOES, THE PALACE, CINDERELLA, FIVE DAYS, TRIAL AND RETRIBUTION, MESSIAH, MIDSOMER MURDERS, SPOOKS, GEORGE ELIOT – A SCANDELOUS LIFE, PETER ACKROYD’S LONDON, UNCLE SILAS, WAKING THE DEAD, BLACK BOX – BUSY BODY, MACBETH, LEPRECHAUNS, NORMAL ORMAL, UNFINISHED BUSINESS, A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME, A MAN YOU DON’T MEET EVERYDAY, HARD TIMES, THE MAITLANDS, INSPECTOR MORSE, BYE BYE COLOMBUS, ASHENDEN, THE MEN’S ROOM, THEY NEVER SLEPT, TIMEWATCH, BENEFACTORS, DOROTH L SAYERS TRILOGY, GIRLS ON TOP, THE PRICE, AMY, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE IMITATION GAME, REBECCA

THEATRE

WOMEN BEWARE WOMEN, MARY STUART, VENUS AND ADONIS, FALLUJAH, ANTONY & CLEOPATRA, MARY STUART, THE HOLLOW CROWN, DINNER, DEEP BLUE SEA, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THE ROYAL FAMILY, LIFE TIMES THREE, MACBETH, THE LATE MIDDLE CLASSES, IVANOV, HEDDA GABLER, SWEET PANIC, OLD TIMES, CHILDREN’S HOUR, ARCADIA, LA MUSICA, THREE BIRDS ALIGHTING ON A FIELD, TWELFTH NIGHT, A QUESTION OF GEOGRAPHY, CYMBELINE, THREE SISTERS, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, THE POSSESSED, THE LUCKY CHANCE, THE CASTLE, ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE TWIN RIVALS, THE WITCH OF EDMONTON, HENRY IV (PARTS I & II), NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, THE SEAGULL, CLOUD NINE, THREE MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, HAMLET, A FAIR QUARREL, THE RAGGED TROUSERED, PHILANTHROPISTS

Since training at LAMDA, Harriet has worked extensively in theatre, television, film and radio. Most recently she was Livia in Women Beware Women at the Olivier NT. She is an associate artist with the RSC, where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra alongside Patrick Stewart, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Macbeth opposite Anthony Sher, The Duchess of Malfi, All’s Well That Ends Well (with Peggy Ashcroft) Twelfth Night and Three Sisters (winning an Olivier award for the last two). Harriet played Elizabeth Ist in Mary Stuart (Donmar, West End) for which she won the Evening Standard Award and was nominated for a Tony Award for the Broadway transfer. Earlier theatre credits include Dinner, The Children’s Hour and Arcadia all at the NT and Three Birds Alighting on a Field, Cloud Nine, Hamlet and The Seagull all at the Royal Court.

Film credits include The Young Victoria (Queen Adelaide) Atonement, Bright Young Things, Sense and Sensibility and Louis Malle’s Milou et Mai.

She has published three books: Other People’s Shoes and Macbeth for the Faber series ‘Actors on Shakespeare’ & Facing It.

She was appointed a CBE in 2000 and DBE in the Honours List 2011

HARRIET WALTER

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