ONE of this country’s most distinguished and critically acclaimed actresses, Dame Harriet Walter is coming to the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, for a fund-raising evening on Sunday 14th June.

A star of stage and screen for 40 years, Dame Harriet has a long and illustrious relationship with both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She has also starred in a wide range of television dramas, including Killing Eve and the Netflix series The Crown.

She led an all-female company in three Shakespeare plays, directed by Phyllida Law, at the Donmar, and later this year she will reprise her role as Julius Caesar, heading an all-female cast in Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy at the RSC and on a schools tour.

She won awards and played to sell-out audiences at the Donmar and on Broadway as Queen Elizabeth I opposite Janet McTeer as Mary, Queen of Scots, in Schiller’s Mary Stuart.

Her many films have included Sense and Sensibility, Denial, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Last Duel. She showed her comedy side as Professor Compton Chamberlayne in the folk song and dance-inspired mockumentary Morris: A Life with Bells On. Other television roles included Downton Abbey

For this special fundraiser, she will be in conversation with Paddy Magrane. The money from this event will be used to help with the Marine’s community and artistic programme, including the Marine Youth Theatre, technician training and the rep theatre.