Biografia
Since training at LAMDA, Harriet has worked extensively in theatre, television, film and radio. She starred in Boa at Trafalgar Studios and completed her run in the starring role in Phyllida Lloyds all-female production of Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse. This followed on from her success at the beginning of 2013 playing the role of Brutus in Lloyds Julius Caesar, a role she reprised in New York at the St Anns Warehouse.
In 2010 she was Livia in Women Beware Women at the NT. Of her many roles with the RSC, where she is an Associate Artist, she have been Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra alongside Patrick Stewart, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Lady Macbeth opposite Anthony Sher, all directed by Gregory Doran. Harriet won the Evening Standard Award for her role as Elizabeth in Phyllida Lloyds production of Schillers Mary Stuart and a Tony nomination when the production transferred to Broadway in 2009.
She is best known on TV as Harriet Vane in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, and as D.I. Natalie Chandler in Law and Order: UK. She also appeared in the series of Julian Fellowes hit series Downton Abbey and reprised her role in Season 5. Harriet took on a lead role in BBC series London Spy opposite Ben Whishaw and Jim Broadbent. Another film roles include Saul Dibbs Suite Francaise alongside Michelle Williams and Kristin Scott Thomas and Man Up alongside Simon Pegg and Lake Bell. She has appeared in the Academy Award-nominated A Royal Affair.
Other film credits include Young Victoria, Atonement, Babel, Bright Young Things, Sense and Sensibility and Louis Malles Milou et Mai. Harriet has also published three books, Other Peoples Shoes, Macbeth for the Faber series Actors on Shakespeare and a photography book Facing It: reflections on images of older women. Harriet was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham University (2000) a CBE in 2000, and a DBE in the 2011 New Years Honours List.
Näyttelijä
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2024 |
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee |
2022 |
Documentary Now! (sarja) |
Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport (S04E03) |
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Soldier of Illusion, Parts 1 (S04E01) |
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2013 |
The Sonnet Project (sarja) |
2012 |
Simon Schama's Shakespeare (TV elokuva) |
1998 |
An Awfully Big Adventure (sarja) - kertoja |
1993 |
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (TV elokuva) |
Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond (TV elokuva) |
Teatteritallenne | |
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2016 |
Shakespeare Live! |
Lyhyet | |
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2011 |
The Door |
Esiintyjä
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2017 |
Hollywood First Look |
2009 |
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards |