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Dame Harriet Walter DBE was born in London and has performed on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, receiving countless awards including an Olivier Award, nominations for a Tony Award, five Emmy Awards, and a Screen and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to drama.
Her films include Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bedrooms and Hallways (1998), The Governess (1998), Onegin (1999), Villa des Roses (2002) and Bright Young Things (2003). Television roles include Waking the Dead (2001), Little Dorrit (2008), Lady Shackleton in four episodes of the series Downton Abbey (2013–15) and Clementine Churchill on the Netflix series The Crown. In 2020, Walter joined the series Killing Eve.[6][7.
Walter is a patron of the Shakespeare Schools Festival, a charity that enables school children across the UK to perform Shakespeare in professional theatres; Prisoners Abroad, a charity that supports Britons imprisoned overseas and their families; and Clean Break, a charity and theatre company dedicated to sharing the stories of imprisoned women and transforming the lives of female offenders through theatre education.
Sophy Roberts is an award winning journalist who studied English Literature at Oxford and completed her master in journalism at Columbia University NY. Started her career as a researcher for the author, Jessica Mitford and then became editor-at-large for Conde Nast Traveler which led to freelance journalism in travel writing. Published by Penguin in the UK, Sophy’s book: The Lost Pianos of Siberia won her worldwide recognition as a writer. She is at present working on her new book: A Training School for Elephants to be published in 2025. She is a fluent interviewer, moderator and public speaker, and lives in West Dorset with her family.