Dame Harriet Walter is an English actress of stage and screen, best known for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Atonement, Babel, and Sense and Sensibility. Other film credits include The Sense of an Ending, Denial, Suite Française, A Royal Affair, The Young Victoria, Onegin, May Fools, Turtle Diary, and The French Lieutenant.

Television credits include Lady Shackleton on ITV’s Downton Abbey, Natalie Chandler on ITV’s Law & Order: UK, Claire in the BBC miniseries, London Spy, Jeanne Vertefeuille in the ABC miniseries, The Assets, Charity Walton in the BBC miniseries, The Men’s Room, and Frances Carr in the Channel 4 miniseries, The Price.

Theatre credits include her Broadway debut as Helena in All's Well that Ends Well (Martin Beck Theatre) and Elizabeth in Mary Stuart (Broadhurst Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Biddy in Three Birds Alighting on a Field (N.Y.C. Center Stage).