SUCCESSION actress Dame Harriet Walter is set to return to our television screens.
Among her notable roles, the British actress will be joining the cast of Wolf Hall. Here’s everything you need to know about her.
Born in London on September 24, 1950, Dame Harriet Walter was already linked to the showbiz world.
She is the niece of the late actor Sir Christopher Lee, being the daughter of his elder sister Xandra Lee.
Walter is also the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of John Walter, founder of The Times newspaper.
The thespian went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before working with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
Walter speaks Russian and she performed a reading at the 2022 Poets for Ukraine event alongside the likes of Juliet Stevenson and Meera Syal.
The actress is also involved with a number of charities including the Shakespeare Schools Festival, Prisoners Abroad, and theatre company Clean Break, which helps to transform the lives of female offenders through drama.
The Killing Eve star joins a star-studded cast of BBC's Wolf Hall this season to play Lady Margaret Pole.
Timothy Spall and Harry Melling are also the new faces to appear in the period drama.
Director Peter Kosminsky said: “Casting Director Robert Sterne has done a truly extraordinary job assembling the most stunning cast with which I've ever had the privilege to work.
“Shooting in Tudor locations all over England and Wales, it is our privilege to bring Hilary [Mantel's] last novel to an international television audience.”
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will trace the final four years of Thomas Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to the most feared, influential figure of his time.
Lady Margaret Pole was one of the few members of the House of Plantagenet to have survived the Wars of the Roses.
She was executed in 1541 at the command of King Henry VIII.
Dame Harriet has had an illustrious career on both theatre and television.
As part of the RSC, she performed in Nicholas Nickleby, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well That Ends Well, The Castle, A Question of Geography, Twelfth Night, Three Sisters, The Duchess of Malfi, Macbeth, Much Ado about Nothing and Death of a Salesman.
She went to the other side of the pond on Broadway with All’s Well That Ends Well.
Her films have included Sense and Sensibility, Bedrooms and Hallways, The Governess, Onegin, Villa des Roses and Bright Young Things.
The dramatist even played Detective Inspector Natalie Chandler from 2009 to 2012 in the ITV drama series Law & Order: UK.
Other television roles include Waking the Dead, Little Dorrit, and A Short Stay in Switzerland.
But she returned to play nobility as Lady Shackleton in four episodes of the series Downton Abbey.
Some of her most recent major works include playing Clementine Churchill on the Netflix series The Crown, two episodes in 2017 in Call the Midwife and in a recurring role on the HBO series Succession.
In 2020, Walter joined the series Killing Eve.
Dame Harriet was in a relationship with actor Peter Blythe from 1996 until his death in 2004, and then married Guy Paul at the age of 60.
Paul, whose real name is Guy Schuessler, is an American actor.
The star is known for playing roles in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and The Fifth Estate (2013).
He met Walter when performing Maria Stuart on Broadway.
She told at the time that the relationship was “slow and cautious and tentative” to begin with because both were terrified of failure.
But on May 21, 2011, they exchanged rings in the Minneapolis church where his father was a Lutheran minister.
Her former partner was diagnosed with lung cancer and died before they could get married.
She said: “Afterwards, I did what Judi Dench says she did after her husband, Michael Williams, died: 'More of me went to work’. I wasn’t expecting anything to happen, when I met Guy.
"I’ve spent a lot of my life alone and I was fine about it until I met Peter and experienced how great it is to do things with someone.”
Speaking to , she said her family did not have “masses of money” growing up, but “we rubbed shoulders” with the aristocracy, who “sort of rubbed off on my whole family.”
Dame Walters explained that her family lived “on the foothills of aristocracy,” but claimed not to be “one of them”.
Her net worth is unknown but celebrity site claims it to be $3 million (£2.6 million).
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