Since training at LAMDA, Harriet has worked extensively in theatre, television, film and radio. She has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company where she played Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra alongside Patrick Stewart, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Macbeth opposite Anthony Sher, The Duchess of Malfi, All's Well That Ends Well (with Peggy Ashcroft) Twelfth Night and Three Sisters (winning an Olivier award for the last two).
Her film credits include The Young Victoria, Atonement, Bright Young Things, Sense and Sensibility and Louis Malle's Milou et Mai.
She has published four books: Other People's Shoes and Macbeth for the Faber series 'Actors on Shakespeare', Facing It and Brutus and Other Heroines.
She was appointed a CBE in 2000 and DBE in the Honours List 2011.
'A part we have played is like a person we once met, grew to know, became intimately enmeshed with and finally moved away from. Some of these characters remain friends, others are like ex–lovers with whom we no longer have anything in common. All of them bring something out in us...
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