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Dame Harriet Mary Walter is an English actress. She has received an Olivier Award and nominations for a Tony Award, five Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, Walter was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama.Walter began her career performing on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company in productions of ''Twelfth Night'' (1987–88) and ''Three Sisters'' (1988), for which she received the Olivier Award for Best Actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for ''Life x 3'' (2001), and ''Mary Stuart'' (2006). Her other notable work for the RSC includes leading roles in ''Macbeth'' (1999) and ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (2006).
She made her Broadway debut in the 1983 revival of the William Shakespeare play ''All's Well That Ends Well'' (1983). She returned to Broadway in ''Mary Stuart'' for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. 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.
Walter has acted in the films ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995), ''The Governess'' (1998), ''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 ''The Last Duel'' (2021). On television she starred as Harriet Vane in the 1987 BBC Wimsey dramatisations and as Natalie Chandler in the ITV drama series ''Law & Order: UK'' from 2009 to 2014. She has also acted in ''Downton Abbey'' (2013–15), ''London Spy'' (2015), ''The Crown'' (2016), ''Patrick Melrose'' (2018), ''Killing Eve'' (2020), and ''Silo'' (2023–present). She has earned Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in ''Succession'' (2018–2023) and ''Ted Lasso'' (2020–2023). Provided by Wikipedia
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