Masters of the Bench

Harriet Walter is a London-born actor working in theatre, film, television and radio . She is also the author of 5 books.

Television credits include Succession, Killing Eve, Belgravia, and The Crown.

Films include The Last Duel, Herself, Rocketman, The Sense of an Ending Sense and Sensibility, Young Victoria, Atonement and Louis Malle’s Milou en Mai.

On stage she is best known for her Shakespearean work, from Viola and Ophelia to Beatrice, Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra and also the usually male roles of Brutus, Henry IV and Prospero for the Donmar all-female trilogy set in a women’s prison.

Her book titles are Brutus and Other Heroines, Other People’s Shoes, Macbeth; portrait of a marriage, Facing It, and the recently published She Speaks! What Shakespeare’s Women Might have Said” (Virago) Harriet is a patron of many charities She was awarded a CBE in 2000, and a Damehood in 2011.