Harriet Walter

Dame Harriet Walter is one of Britain’s most celebrated stage and screen actors, renowned for her Shakespeare performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and across a career that has spanned theatre, film and television. Alongside acclaimed roles in productions from Succession to Killing Eve, she is also an incisive writer and thinker on theatre, language and gender. Her book She Speaks! reimagines Shakespeare’s female characters through newly written monologues, giving voice to women often silenced, sidelined or constrained within the original plays. It reflects a longstanding engagement with questions of power, representation and who gets to speak — both on stage and beyond it.