
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.
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Biography from TMDB.
- September 24, 1950 (76)
- London, England, UK
- Actor, also producer
- 72 on MovieCove · 122 credits in all
What are Harriet Walter's films like?
Across their 46 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 3 · Wry 2 · Earnest 27
A split, not a type: Light 13 · Serious 7 · Dark 13
A split, not a type: Grounded 17 · Stylized 12 · Heightened 4
Gentle 10 · Charged 15 · Intense 8
A split, not a type: Steady 17 · Shifting 14 · Whiplash 2
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 18 · Some laughs 9 · Funny 6
A split, not a type: Slow burn 17 · Even-paced 15 · Relentless 1
Casual 12 · Engaged 19 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 11 · Affecting 10 · Heavy 12
Resolved 21 · Open-ended 9 · Ambiguous 3
Roles they play
Usually the Mentor: 7 of 19 analyzed roles.
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- Allyas Jeannine Martin in The Advocate (1993)
- Allyas Rachel in Hard Times (1994)
- Allyas Charlotte in A Man You Don't Meet Every Day (1994)
- Shadowas Fanny Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- Threshold guardianas Mrs. Cavendish in The Governess (1998)
- Heroas Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot in George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002)
- Mentoras DI Natalie Chandler in Law & Order: UK (2009)
- Mentoras Jeanne Vertefeuille in The Assets (2014)
- Mentoras Margaret Webster in The Sense of an Ending (2017)
- Mentoras Peggy in Herself (2020)
- Mentoras Lady Brockenhurst in Belgravia (2020)
- Allyas Peggy in Herself (2020)
- Heroas Anna Marshall in Burial (2022)
- Allyas Shirley in On the Line (2023)
- Mentoras Martha Walker in Silo (2023)
- Allyas Elsie Leach in Archie (2023)
- Threshold guardianas Amanda in And Mrs (2024)
- Shadowas Margaret Thatcher in Brian and Maggie (2025)
- Mentoras Pattie in Playing Gracie Darling (2025)
Moods and endings
- Happy7
- Bittersweet31
- Tragic3
- Ambiguous4
- Cyclical1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Harriet Walter's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 59 of their 72 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (20).
- A Royal Affair (2012) · actor · free
- MI-5 (2002) · actor · free
- The Last Duel (2021) · actor · free
- Midsomer Murders (1997) · actor · free
- Suite Française (2014) · actor · free
- Denial (2016) · actor · free
- From Time to Time (2009) · actor · free
- My Uncle Silas (2001) · actor · free
- Onegin (1999) · actor · free
- Ballet Shoes (2007) · actor · free
- Bright Young Things (2003) · actor · free
- Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) · actor · free
- +8 more
- Downton Abbey (2010) · actor
- This Is Going to Hurt (2022) · actor · free
- MI-5 (2002) · actor
- Midsomer Murders (1997) · actor · free
- Flowers (2016) · actor
- Herself (2020) · actor
- From Time to Time (2009) · actor
- My Uncle Silas (2001) · actor
- Bright Young Things (2003) · actor
- Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) · actor
- Your Christmas or Mine? (2022) · actor
- A Merry War (1997) · actor
- +6 more
- BritBox
- Downton Abbey (2010) · actor
- MI-5 (2002) · actor
- Inspector Morse (1987) · actor
- Killing Eve (2018) · actor
- Agatha Christie's Marple (2004) · actor
- Midsomer Murders (1997) · actor
- Flowers (2016) · actor
- Waking the Dead (2000) · actor
- Law & Order: UK (2009) · actor
- Belgravia (2020) · actor
- Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) · actor
- The Cleaner (2021) · actor
- +1 more
- MI-5 (2002) · actor · free
- Rocketman (2019) · actor · free
- Babel (2006) · actor · free
- Midsomer Murders (1997) · actor · free
- Man Up (2015) · actor · free
- The Advocate (1993) · actor · free
- My Uncle Silas (2001) · actor · free
- Bright Young Things (2003) · actor · free
- Bedrooms and Hallways (1998) · actor · free
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) · actor · free
- Chéri (2009) · actor · free
- MI-5 (2002) · actor · free
- Midsomer Murders (1997) · actor · free
- From Time to Time (2009) · actor · free
- My Uncle Silas (2001) · actor · free
- Onegin (1999) · actor · free
- Ballet Shoes (2007) · actor · free
- Bright Young Things (2003) · actor · free
- A Merry War (1997) · actor · free
- The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (1999) · actor · free
- The Leading Man (1996) · actor · free
- Shout! TV, show their 5 titles on Shout! TV
- PBS Masterpiece, show their 4 titles on PBS Masterpiece
- Acorn TV, show their 3 titles on Acorn TV
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Subscription and free streaming for Harriet Walter's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
122 credits, 72 with a MovieCove page; 9 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Shelter(2026)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Ponies(2026)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Playing Gracie Darling(2025)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all shows
Brian and Maggie(2025)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows
And Mrs(2024)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

Archie(2023)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all shows
On the Line(2023)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
Silo(2023)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Your Christmas or Mine?(2022)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films
Burial(2022)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
This Is Going to Hurt(2022)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all shows
The Last Duel(2021)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

The Cleaner(2021)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all shows
Doctor Who: Revolution of the Daleks (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

Herself(2020)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Ted Lasso(2020)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all shows
Belgravia(2020)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
The End (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

Rocketman(2019)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
The Spanish Princess(2019)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all shows
Curfew (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

My Dinner with Hervé(2018)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Black Earth Rising(2018)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all shows
Henry IV (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

Julius Caesar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

The Tempest (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

Succession(2018)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
Patrick Melrose(2018)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Killing Eve(2018)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
The Sense of an Ending(2017)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
The Crown(2016)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
Mindhorn(2016)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
Denial(2016)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Flowers(2016)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all films
London Spy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

Documentary Now!(2015)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all shows
Man Up(2015)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Suite Française(2014)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Wolf Hall(2015)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all shows
The Assets(2014)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
By Any Means (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Heading Out(2013)
Midcredits score: 18th percentile of all shows
The Domino Effect (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

The Door (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

The Wedding Video (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Simon Schama's Shakespeare (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

A Royal Affair(2012)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films
Call the Midwife(2012)
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
Black Mirror(2011)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
This September(2010)
Midcredits score: 6th percentile of all shows
Downton Abbey(2010)
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
From Time to Time(2009)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Chéri(2009)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
The Young Victoria(2009)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Law & Order: UK(2009)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all shows
A Short Stay in Switzerland (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Hunter (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Morris: A Life with Bells On (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Broken Lines (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

Ballet Shoes(2007)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
10 Days to War (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

Fairy Tales (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

Abraham's Point(2008)
Midcredits score: 39th percentile of all films
Atonement(2007)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Babel(2006)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Chromophobia(2005)
Midcredits score: 43rd percentile of all films
Agatha Christie's Marple(2004)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all showsLondon (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)

Bright Young Things(2003)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
MI-5(2002)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
Villa des roses(2002)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
Waking the Dead(2000)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Messiah (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

Macbeth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)

My Uncle Silas(2001)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
Black Cab (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)

Onegin(1999)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Bedrooms and Hallways(1998)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
The Governess(1998)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all filmsUnfinished Business (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)

A Merry War(1997)
Midcredits score: 55th percentile of all films
A Dance to the Music of Time (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

Midsomer Murders(1997)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
The Leading Man(1996)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Dalziel and Pascoe(1996)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all shows
Sense and Sensibility(1995)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Hard Times (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1994)

Hard Times(1994)
Midcredits score: 22nd percentile of all shows
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

The Maitlands (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)

The Advocate(1993)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all filmsAshenden (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

Performance (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

The Men's Room (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

They Never Slept (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)

May Fools(1990)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
La nuit miraculeuse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Benefactors (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)

A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)

Inspector Morse(1987)
Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all shows
Turtle Diary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

The Good Father(1985)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all films
Girls On Top (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

The Price (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

The Price (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)

Screen Two (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Reflections (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

Amy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)

The Cherry Orchard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

The Imitation Game (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1980)

Rebecca (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1979)
Late in Summer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Margot & Rudi (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 98th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 121 titles, 119 of them dated from 1979 to 2026; peak year 2016.

Biggest box office
Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Highest rated
Atonement (2007)

Most popular right now
Silo (2023)
Film career
Peak 2016 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 4 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1990Screen debut· May Fools
- 2016Screen Actors Guild Award nomination· The Crown
- 2018Career best· Killing Eve
- 2018Primetime Emmy nomination· Succession
- 2020Primetime Emmy nomination· Ted Lasso
- 2021Career best· The Last Duel
Billing
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
Awards
7 major nominations and no wins, 2017–2024.
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Supporting Actress
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
- Primetime Emmy, nominated · Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
- Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Harriet Walter's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 66th percentile, the median of all 37; across their 33 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 59th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up32
- 50th to 74th21
- 25th to 49th15
- Below 25th4
Shape of the crowd
33 of their 72 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved18
- Divisive1
- Cult Classic4
- Crowd Pleaser33
- Broadly Agreed4
- Mixed12
Reviewers score the acting 75/100 in their films, across 30 reviewed titles; fans 82, detractors 50. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Harriet Walter's work okay for kids?
Across up to 20 MovieCove titles with content scores, profanity runs heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Harriet Walter work with?
People who share at least 2 of Harriet Walter's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Christine Langan shares the most, 5.
Directors
- Sandra GoldbacherShared titles: Ballet Shoes (2007), The Governess (1998)See all 2 shared titles with Sandra Goldbacher

- Martha FiennesShared titles: Chromophobia (2005), Onegin (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Martha Fiennes

Writers
- Christopher HamptonShared titles: Atonement (2007), The Good Father (1985)See all 2 shared titles with Christopher Hampton

Actors
- Alex JenningsShared titles: This Is Going to Hurt (2022), Your Christmas or Mine? (2022), Denial (2016)See all 3 shared titles with Alex Jennings

- Kristin Scott ThomasShared titles: Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (2020), Suite Française (2014), Chromophobia (2005)See all 3 shared titles with Kristin Scott Thomas

- Tom WilkinsonShared titles: Belgravia (2020), Denial (2016), The Governess (1998)See all 3 shared titles with Tom Wilkinson

- Jim BroadbentShared titles: The Sense of an Ending (2017), The Young Victoria (2009), The Good Father (1985)See all 3 shared titles with Jim Broadbent

Composers and cinematographers
- Magnus FiennesShared titles: Chromophobia (2005), Onegin (1999)See all 2 shared titles with Magnus Fiennes

- Ashley RoweShared titles: Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), The Governess (1998)See all 2 shared titles with Ashley Rowe
- Edward ShearmurShared titles: The Governess (1998), The Leading Man (1996)See all 2 shared titles with Edward Shearmur

- Michael CoulterShared titles: Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Good Father (1985)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Coulter
Producers
- Christine LanganShared titles: The Sense of an Ending (2017), Denial (2016), Mindhorn (2016), Man Up (2015), Suite Française (2014)See all 5 shared titles with Christine Langan

- Compton RossShared titles: And Mrs (2024), Burial (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Compton Ross

- Phil HuntShared titles: And Mrs (2024), Burial (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Phil Hunt

- Ridley ScottShared titles: The Last Duel (2021), Mindhorn (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Ridley Scott

Mixed roles
- Sharon HorganShared titles: Herself (2020), Man Up (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Sharon Horgan

- Stephen FryShared titles: Bright Young Things (2003), The Good Father (1985)See all 2 shared titles with Stephen Fry





