Harriet Walter

Harriet Walter

Born: September 24, 1950
in London, England, UK
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).

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National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
Title: National Theatre Live: The House of Bernarda Alba
Character: Bernarda Alba
Released: March 22, 2024
Type: Movie
In the domain of Bernarda Alba, a daughter who disobeys is no longer a daughter. Forced to live under their mother’s tight grip as they mourn their father’s death, can five sisters survive when young Adela dares for passion and freedom?
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Title: Archie: The Man Who Became Cary Grant
Character: Elsie Leach
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: TV
The four-part drama series will tell the story of Cary Grant’s life, from his humble beginnings as Archie Leach in Bristol, England to the Hollywood leading man he became.
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On The Line
Title: On The Line
Character: Shirley
Released: May 15, 2023
Type: Movie
Alderney, Channel Islands. 1964. A telephone operator ends up being the pivotal piece of a drama unfurling which puts professional integrity, and relationships, to the test.
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Title: Silo
Character: Martha Walker
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: TV
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
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Your Christmas or Mine?
Title: Your Christmas or Mine?
Character: Iris
Released: December 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
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Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport
Title: Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport
Character: Edwina
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: Movie
A fly-on-the-wall portrait of a hair salon in the small coastal town of Bagglyport as they prepare their annual stylebook.
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Burial
Title: Burial
Character: Anna Marshall
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.
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Title: This Is Going to Hurt
Character: Veronique
Released: February 8, 2022
Type: TV
The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.
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The Last Duel
Title: The Last Duel
Character: Nicole de Carrouges
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: Movie
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
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Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Title: Alexander Pope: Rediscovering a Genius
Character: Duchess of Marlborough
Released: October 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pope, who lived from 1688 to 1744.
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Title: The Cleaner
Character: Lisa
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: TV
After CSI have done their stuff, the cleaner mops up the grisly remains. For Wicky, a bloodbath and the pub is all in a day's work.
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Herself
Title: Herself
Character: Peggy
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
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Title: Ted Lasso
Character: Deborah
Released: August 14, 2020
Type: TV
Ted Lasso, an American football coach, moves to England when he’s hired to manage a soccer team—despite having no experience. With cynical players and a doubtful town, will he get them to see the Ted Lasso Way?
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Title: Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
Character: Muriel
Released: June 23, 2020
Type: TV
Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in 10 of Bennett's classic scripts, alongside two brand new Talking Heads penned by the acclaimed writer last year.
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Title: Belgravia
Character: Caroline, Countess of Brockenhurst
Released: March 15, 2020
Type: TV
A tale of secrets and scandals set in 1840s London. When the Trenchards accept an invitation to the now legendary ball hosted by the Duchess of Richmond on the fateful evening of the Battle of Waterloo, it sets in motion a series of events that will have consequences for decades to come as secrets unravel behind the porticoed doors of London’s grandest postcode.
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Title: The End
Character: Edie Henley
Released: February 10, 2020
Type: TV
Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count.
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Rocketman
Title: Rocketman
Character: Helen Piena
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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Title: The Spanish Princess
Character: Margaret Beaufort
Released: May 5, 2019
Type: TV
The beautiful Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon, navigates the royal lineage of England with an eye on the throne.
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Title: Curfew
Character: Helen Newman
Released: February 22, 2019
Type: TV
When day becomes night, a strict curfew forces ordinary people to go pedal to the metal in a deadly race for freedom. During this contest, alliances and friendships are both made and lost.
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My Dinner with Hervé
Title: My Dinner with Hervé
Character: Baskin
Released: October 20, 2018
Type: Movie
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
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Title: Black Earth Rising
Character: Eve Ashby
Released: September 10, 2018
Type: TV
As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.
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Title: Succession
Character: Lady Caroline Collingwood
Released: June 3, 2018
Type: TV
Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
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Title: Patrick Melrose
Character: Princess Margaret
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: TV
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
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Title: Killing Eve
Character: Dasha Duzran
Released: April 8, 2018
Type: TV
A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
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The Secret Life of Flowers
Title: The Secret Life of Flowers
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Two young friends go for a weekend at the English country retreat of a colourful lady who lives surrounded by flowers. Once there, they experience an embarrassment of riches to tempt all of their senses.
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Julius Caesar
Title: Julius Caesar
Character: Brutus
Released: July 12, 2017
Type: Movie
The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.
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Title: Tate Britain's Great Art Walks
Character: Self
Released: May 2, 2017
Type: TV
Danny Baker, Simon Callow, Richard E Grant, Cerys Matthews, Miriam Margolyes and Michael Sheen follow in the footsteps of their favourite British artists.
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The Sense of an Ending
Title: The Sense of an Ending
Character: Margaret Webster
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
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Henry IV
Title: Henry IV
Character: Henry IV
Released: December 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Harriet Walter takes the lead in the second installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Featuring a diverse company of women, this unique interpretation combines both parts of Shakespeare’s history plays about King Henry IV and his son Prince Hal.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Clemmie Churchill
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Mindhorn
Title: Mindhorn
Character: Richard's Agent
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A washed up actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective show "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be real.
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Denial
Title: Denial
Character: Vera Reich
Released: September 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
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The Tempest
Title: The Tempest
Character: Prospero
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Phyllida Lloyd’s final installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy concludes with an all-female version of The Tempest starring Harriet Walter as Prospero. This captivating reimagining explores themes of freedom and justice in the context of a women’s prison.
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Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Title: Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
Character: Self - Performer
Released: April 23, 2016
Type: Movie
From the stage of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, David Tennant, Catherine Tate and guests mark the life of William Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the playwright's death.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Title: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Character: Dr. Kalonia
Released: December 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
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Title: London Spy
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Title: London Spy
Character: Claire
Released: November 9, 2015
Type: TV
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them suddenly disappears.
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Title: Documentary Now!
Character: Edwina
Released: August 20, 2015
Type: TV
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
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Man Up
Title: Man Up
Character: Fran
Released: May 29, 2015
Type: Movie
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling across London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget.
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Suite Française
Title: Suite Française
Character: Viscountess Montmort
Released: March 12, 2015
Type: Movie
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.
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The Mysterious Mr Webster
Title: The Mysterious Mr Webster
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: May 24, 2014
Type: Movie
Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of a coachmaker who ended up rivalling Shakespeare.
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Title: The Assets
Character: Jeanne Vertefeuille
Released: January 2, 2014
Type: TV
1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US history, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.
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Title: By Any Means
Character: Sally Walker
Released: September 22, 2013
Type: TV
By Any Means follows a clandestine unit living on the edge and playing the criminal elite at their own game, existing in the grey area between the letter of the law and true justice.
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Title: Heading Out
Character: Angela
Released: February 26, 2013
Type: TV
Sara is a woman approaching middle age who is popular and successful - she's a veterinarian so skilled that she can spay a tortoise using just one hand - but has a chink in her armour: she's afraid to tell her parents that she is a lesbian. So on the eve of her 40th birthday, friends Jamie and Justine give Sara an ultimatum - either tell her parents next time mum and dad visit or they will.
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The Domino Effect
Title: The Domino Effect
Character: Ann
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: Movie
If global economy came to a sudden stop what would be the effect on families worldwide? People in different countries or continents might not seem to be interrelated but there is more than meets the eye and we might be more connected than we sometimes like to think.
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The Door
Title: The Door
Character: Woman with Sorrowful Eyes
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A man of incredible wealth and power is haunted by a childhood memory.
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The Wedding Video
Title: The Wedding Video
Character: Alex
Released: August 17, 2012
Type: Movie
When the rogueish but loveable Raif is asked to be his brother Tim's best man at his wedding, he decides the best present for the happy newlyweds would be to catch the entire thing on video. He returns home from abroad to find his brother is no longer the bohemian vagabond that he used to be, and is in fact marrying into a very wealthy family, and the wedding they're about to be part of will be the most outlandish and bizarre that Cheshire has ever seen... Thank the lord Raif has caught it all on tape!
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Title: Simon Schama's Shakespeare
Released: June 22, 2012
Type: TV
Simon Schama explores the life and times of William Shakespeare to shed a new and fascinating light on some of the greatest plays ever written. He asks the question: "What came first, Englishness, or Shakespeare's idea of it?" and produces a persuasive argument in favour of the latter.
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A Royal Affair
Title: A Royal Affair
Character: Augusta - Princess of Wales
Released: March 29, 2012
Type: Movie
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
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Title: Call the Midwife
Character: Sister Ursula
Released: January 15, 2012
Type: TV
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Title: Downton Abbey
Character: Lady Shackleton
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: TV
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
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From Time to Time
Title: From Time to Time
Character: Lady Gresham
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
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Chéri
Title: Chéri
Character: La Loupiote
Released: April 8, 2009
Type: Movie
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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The Young Victoria
Title: The Young Victoria
Character: Queen Adelaide
Released: March 4, 2009
Type: Movie
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the political machinations of her own family. Victoria's mother wants her to sign a regency order, while her Belgian uncle schemes to arrange a marriage between the future monarch and Prince Albert, the man who will become the love of her life.
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Title: Law & Order: UK
Character: Natalie Chandler
Released: February 23, 2009
Type: TV
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.
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A Short Stay in Switzerland
Title: A Short Stay in Switzerland
Character: Clare
Released: January 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Just after losing her husband to a similar condition, Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true story.
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Title: Hunter
Character: ACC Jenny Griffin
Released: January 18, 2009
Type: TV
Hunter is a two-part BBC One police drama. Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer reprised their roles as the dysfunctional detective double-act following on from the 2007 series Five Days. The series aired in the UK on Monday 18 January 2009 on BBC One at 9pm and achieved an average of 5.4m viewers during first episode. It was simulcast on BBC HD.
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Morris: A Life with Bells On
Title: Morris: A Life with Bells On
Character: Professor Compton Chamberlayne
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The film follows the fortunes of an avant garde Morris team in their struggle to evolve Morris Dancing.
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Ballet Shoes
Title: Ballet Shoes
Character: Dr. Smith
Released: August 26, 2008
Type: Movie
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
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Title: 10 Days to War
Character: Anne Campbell
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
A series of short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.
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Title: Fairy Tales
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
Four contemporary adaptations of classic fairy tales, Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Emperor's New Clothes and Billy Goats Gruff.
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Abraham's Point
Title: Abraham's Point
Character: Pani Nemeth
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A man struggles to get over a family tragedy that has haunted him since childhood.
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Atonement
Title: Atonement
Character: Emily Tallis
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Babel
Title: Babel
Character: Lilly
Released: October 26, 2006
Type: Movie
In Babel, a tragic incident involving an American couple in Morocco sparks a chain of events for four families in different countries throughout the world.
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Chromophobia
Title: Chromophobia
Character: Penelope Aylesbury
Released: May 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Encouraged by his editor to seek 'sexy stories that sell', a reporter preys upon the private life of an erstwhile friend, with disastrous results.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Jo Patterson
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Duchess
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: TV
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
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Title: London
Character: Virginia Woolf
Released: May 7, 2004
Type: TV
London is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd.
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Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Title: Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
Character: Mary Wollstonecraft
Released: December 7, 2003
Type: Movie
A drama telling the story of the life of the writer of Frankenstein; the 19-year-old Mary Shelley. Telling of her influences, her writing and her personal life. The extraordinary story of how she created Frankenstein, one of the world's most terrifying monsters.
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Bright Young Things
Title: Bright Young Things
Character: Lady Maitland
Released: October 3, 2003
Type: Movie
During the 1930s in England, a group of young socialites dominate the national gossip with extravagant and outlandish antics. Among the group is the aspiring novelist Adam Fenwick-Symes, who is attempting to raise enough money to marry fellow member Nina Blount. However, after customs officials confiscate his first manuscript, Fenwick-Symes must recover from the financial setback and figure out new ways to earn money for a wedding.
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George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Title: George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Character: Mary Ann Evans / George Eliot
Released: November 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Deep Throat
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Villa Des Roses
Title: Villa Des Roses
Character: Olive Burrell
Released: February 27, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.
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Title: My Uncle Silas
Character: Pamela Farrell
Released: October 28, 2001
Type: TV
In 1901, a middle-class schoolboy whose parents are working abroad spends his summer in Bedfordshire with his great-uncle Silas. Though 60 years old, Silas relishes life—he’s a womanizer, drinker, and a poacher. At the prompting of his long-suffering housekeeper, Mrs. Betts, he takes on the occasional odd job.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Annie Keel
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Title: Messiah
Character: Professor Robb
Released: May 26, 2001
Type: TV
Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Lady Macbeth
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Anthony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare's classic story of tyranny and ambition. On the stage this Royal Shakespeare Company presentation was universally lauded. Following sell-out seasons at Statford's Swan Theatre and in London, the production played Japan and in the United States, where The New York Times praised director Gregory Doran's interpretation as a "harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century". To make this compelling screen version, Gregory Doran worked with all of the original cast and filmed at London's Roundhouse. Brilliantly shot by director of photography Ernie Vincze, the production uses the edgy techniques of fly-on-the-wall documentaries. The effect is raw, intimate and strikingly dynamic.
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Onegin
Title: Onegin
Character: Madame Larina
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat – a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is introduced to the young Tatiana. A passionate and virtuous girl, she soon falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof newcomer and professes her love for him
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Title: The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Character: Queen Morag
Released: November 7, 1999
Type: TV
In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the leprechauns and the trooping fairies. Jack Woods is appointed to restore harmony...but will peace prevail before the unthinkable happens?
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Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Title: Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Character: Queen Morag
Released: November 5, 1999
Type: Movie
In a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the leprechauns and the trooping fairies. Jack Woods is appointed to restore harmony...but will peace prevail before the unthinkable happens?
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Bedrooms and Hallways
Title: Bedrooms and Hallways
Character: Sybil
Released: August 1, 1998
Type: Movie
At the suggestion of a straight friend, gay man Leo joins a men’s group, where he causes some upsets by declaring his attraction to one of its members.
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The Governess
Title: The Governess
Character: Mrs. Cavendish
Released: July 31, 1998
Type: Movie
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
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Title: Unfinished Business
Released: January 24, 1998
Type: TV
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Title: Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Character: Julia Comstock
Released: November 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
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Title: Arthouse
Character: Self
Released: October 26, 1997
Type: TV
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
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Title: A Dance to the Music of Time
Character: Mildred
Released: October 9, 1997
Type: TV
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Diana Davenport
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Margaret Winstanley
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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The Leading Man
Title: The Leading Man
Character: Liz Flett
Released: December 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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Sense and Sensibility
Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Fanny Ferrars Dashwood
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
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A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Title: A Man You Don't Meet Every Day
Character: Charlotte
Released: November 9, 1994
Type: Movie
It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle class English married woman, he is an lonely Irish mechanic. Despite the gulf between them they start an affair.
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Hard Times
Title: Hard Times
Character: Rachel
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life with an outstanding cast and brilliant cinematography.
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Title: Hard Times
Character: Rachel
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: TV
Charles Dickens' bleak, passionate novel about the challenges of life in 19th-century London comes to life.
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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Title: Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
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The Maitlands
Title: The Maitlands
Character: Mrs. Dorothy Maitland
Released: November 13, 1993
Type: Movie
There is a strained atmosphere in the Maitland household which has fallen on hard times.
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The Hour of the Pig
Title: The Hour of the Pig
Character: Jeannine Martin
Released: September 25, 1993
Type: Movie
In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.
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Title: Ashenden
Character: Giulia Lazzari
Released: November 17, 1991
Type: TV
Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the writings of Somerset Maugham
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Title: Performance
Character: Dorothy Maitland
Released: February 22, 1991
Type: TV
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
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They Never Slept
Title: They Never Slept
Character: Amelia Cleverly
Released: January 20, 1991
Type: Movie
When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
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May Fools
Title: May Fools
Character: Lily
Released: January 24, 1990
Type: Movie
An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
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Benefactors
Title: Benefactors
Released: January 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.
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Title: A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery
Character: Harriet Vane
Released: March 25, 1987
Type: TV
Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and mystery writer Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Dr. Esther Martin
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Turtle Diary
Title: Turtle Diary
Character: Harriet Sims
Released: December 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.
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The Good Father
Title: The Good Father
Character: Emmy Hooper
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
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Title: Girls On Top
Character: R.S.C. Actress 3
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: TV
Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.
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The Price
Title: The Price
Character: Frances Carr
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.
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Reflections
Title: Reflections
Character: Ottilie Garinger
Released: April 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.
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Amy
Title: Amy
Character: Amy Johnson
Released: January 2, 1984
Type: Movie
The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber
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The Cherry Orchard
Title: The Cherry Orchard
Character: Varya
Released: October 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to pay debts. Lopahin, a former serf on the estate who is now a walthy landowner, proposes razing the home and cherrt orchard and dividing the estate into plats that could be leased at great profit. The family, however, continues to hold out hope that their beloved home can somehow be saved from destruction.
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The Imitation Game
Title: The Imitation Game
Released: April 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the Enigma code.
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And Mrs
Title: And Mrs
Character: Lord Chief Justice Amanda Vaughn
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiance drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway - much to the bewilderment of her friends and family.