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Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) and the sequels by Jill Paton Walsh. Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover (Strong Poison). The detective falls in love with her and proposes ...
The series follows the aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter's romance with the crime writer Harriet Vane, and stars Edward Petherbridge as Wimsey, Harriet Walter as Vane and Richard Morant as Bunter. The adaptations were first broadcast on BBC Two beginning on 25 March 1987.
Dame Harriet Mary Walter (born 24 September 1950) is an English actress. She has performed on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company , and received an Olivier Award , and nominations for a Tony Award , five Emmy Awards , and a Screen Actors Guild Award .
Gaudy Night (1935) is a mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, the tenth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third including Harriet Vane.. The dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College), have invited her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations.
Harriet Walter, who played Shiv’s mum Lady Caroline Colingwood on Succession, will star in the final season of Wolf Hall as the powerful landowner Lady Margaret Pole.
Walter is at least optimistic about the fact that the UK currently has a Labour government, though she believes we’re “pretty rough” on today’s politicians, and lambasts the media for ...
Edward Petherbridge played Lord Peter for BBC Television in 1987, in which three of the four major Wimsey/Vane novels (Strong Poison, Have His Carcase and Gaudy Night) were dramatised under the umbrella title A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery. Harriet Vane was played by Harriet Walter and Bunter was played by Richard Morant.
Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan lead the cast with performances that promise to capture both the gravity and the humanity of the moment. The docudrama is also a study in the fragility of power ...