The mother of all breakthroughs
Harriet Walter, 72, has become an Emmy favorite after more than four decades of stellar work on stage and screen.
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This year, like last, Walter is up for two guest star Emmys — for drama as the mostly uninvolved, occasionally offhandedly monstrous mother in “Succession,” and for comedy, as Rebecca’s kookier yet also emotionally distant mother on “Ted Lasso."
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Walter’s nomination total, including her 2020 recognition for “Succession.”
1988
A Royal Shakespeare Company stalwart, Walter won the Olivier Award for best actress in a revival (for “Twelfth Night,” “Three Sisters” and “A Question of Geography”) the same year her future “Succession” ex-husband Brian Cox won best actor in a revival, for “Titus Andronicus.”
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Walter received a Tony nomination in 2009 for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in “Mary Stuart.”
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years (2009-11) Walter starred as a detective inspector on “Law and Order: UK.”
2011
Walter became a dame less than two years after her uncle, actor Christopher Lee, was knighted.
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Walter and Lee appeared in “Star Wars” films, but not together. Lee: “Attack of the Clones,” “Revenge of the Sith.” Walter: “The Force Awakens.”
2020
TV fans who only know her patrician British mum characters should check out Walter’s tongue-in-cheek performance as a Russian gymnast-turned-assassin on Season 3 of “Killing Eve.”
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Walter has appeared in most English or Anglo/American Emmy sensations of the past decade, from “Succession,” “Lasso” and “Eve” to “Downton Abbey” and “The Crown.”
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
