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Harriet Walter

Dame Harriet Walter started her career at the Royal Shakespeare Company where in 1988 her performances in Twelfth Night and The Three Sisters won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival. She has appeared in eighteen Shakespeare productions, playing the male roles of Propsero, Brutus and Henry IV, alongside her famous Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth. For television, recent credits Include Dasha in Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s thriller Killing Eve, the Duchess of Brockenhurst in Belgravia, plus starring roles in Succession and The Crown. Harriet has also published three books, Other People’s Shoes, Macbeth for the Faber series Actors on Shakespeare and recently a photography book Facing It: reflections on images of older women.

Readings

On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer read by Harriet Walter
Don Juan (Excerpt Canto the First) read by Harriet Walter and Guy Paul
Easter Monday read by Harriet Walter
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Harriet Walter
High Wood read by Harriet Walter
John Milton: 'Paradise Lost' read by Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Claire Bloom and Dominic West
The Hollow Men read by Edward Fox and Harriet Walter
Adonais read by Guy Paul and Harriet Walter
Christina Rossetti: 'Goblin Market' read by Elizabeth McGovern, Poppy Miller and Harriet Walter
Sister Maude read by Harriet Walter
Death & Co. read by Harriet Walter
Love Lies Sleeping read by Harriet Walter
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be read by Harriet Walter
Select reading
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer read by Harriet Walter
Don Juan (Excerpt Canto the First) read by Harriet Walter and Guy Paul
Easter Monday read by Harriet Walter
From Picnic, July 1917 read by Harriet Walter
High Wood read by Harriet Walter
John Milton: 'Paradise Lost' read by Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Claire Bloom and Dominic West
The Hollow Men read by Edward Fox and Harriet Walter
Adonais read by Guy Paul and Harriet Walter
Christina Rossetti: 'Goblin Market' read by Elizabeth McGovern, Poppy Miller and Harriet Walter
Sister Maude read by Harriet Walter
Death & Co. read by Harriet Walter
Love Lies Sleeping read by Harriet Walter
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be read by Harriet Walter
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