This is Shona’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Boxes (Soho Theatre / Theatre Peckham), Fatherland (Hampstead Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night (Globe), [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse), Humans Of Clean Break (Clean Break / Omnibus Theatre), All the Lights Are On (Clean Break), Rising (Cardboard Citizens / UK Tour), Response To Grenfell (Aldgate Square Festival), Every Brilliant Thing (Cockpit Theatre), Invisible People Berlin (Cardboard Citizens / International Culture Centre), Glint (Stratford Theatre Royal), Bottled (Rehearsed Reading. Omnibus Theatre / Flux Theatre), Glasshouse (Rehearsed Reading. Cardboard Citizens)

Film includes: Polite Society

Television includes: One Red Nose Day and a Wedding (BBC)

This is Jackie’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Meat Kings! (Inc.) Of Brooklyn Heights (Park Theatre), Otherland (Almeida), Just For One Day (Old Vic), Grenfell: In The Words of Survivors (National Theatre), Rocky Horror Picture Show (UK Tour), Dr Semmelweis (Bristol Old Vic), Emelia (West End / Shakespeare's Globe), Utility (Orange Tree), [BLANK], The Tempest, Julius Caesar, The Vote (Donmar Warehouse), Henry IV (Donmare Warehouse / St. Ann's Warehouse, New York), Fallen Angels (Salisbury Playhouse), Candide (Menier Chocolate Factory), 9 to 5 (Ambassador Theatre Group), Mogadishu (Lyric Hammersmith), Mamma Mia (Little Star), Billy Elliot (Working Title), Julie Burchill is Away (Soho Theatre), Showstopper (G & J)

Television includes: The Couple Next Door (Eagle Eye Drama), Grace, Stephen, The Bill (ITV), Towards Zero, Mandy, Motherland, Marriage, Father Brown, Three Girls, Ghosts, Waking The Dead, Eastenders (BBC), No Escape (Paramount+), Too Close (AMC+), Borderline (Littlerock)

Film includes: The Great Escaper, Jawbone, Denial

This is Darcy's RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Dream (Perform Productions), Mortality (Hope Theatre), Mawa Monologue Slam (Shakespeare’s Globe), Imaginary Natural Beings (Network Theatre), Smart Casual (The Cockpit Theatre), Merrily We Roll Along (Oxford Playhouse), The Surplus (Young Vic), Emil & The Detectives (National Theatre)

Radio includes: The Hummingbird (BBC Radio 3)

Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)

This is Leah’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (The Kiln Theatre), Girl In The Machine (Young Vic), As You Like It (Soho Place), The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Small Island (National Theatre), Emilia (Shakespeare’s Globe), Yous Two (Hampstead Theatre), The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse / St. Ann's Warehouse, New York) Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse) 

Film includes: The Scurry, The Assessment, Tuesday, Fighting With My Family, On The Road, Dustbin Baby

Television includes: Sweetpea (Sky Atlantic), A Gentleman In Moscow (Paramount+), Foundation (Apple TV+), Search and Destroy (Hulu), Les Miserables, Uncle (BBC)

This is Shalisha’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Punch (Nottingham Playhouse / Young Vic / West End), Romeo & Juliet (Royal Exchange), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare’s Globe), Anna Karenina (Chichester Festival Theatre)

Television includes: Crossfire (BBC), I May Destroy You (HBO / BBC), Alex Rider (Amazon), The Split (ITV)

Film includes: Mary Queen of Scots

This is Jennifer's RSC debut

Theatre includes: Julius Caesar, Henry IV, The Tempest (Donmar Warehouse), Paradise (National Theatre), Maryland (Royal Court), More Than We Can Bear: The Women's Centre Workers' Play (Almeida Theatre / Clean Break), Inside Bitch (Royal Court / Clean Break), Stepping Out (Frinton Rep)

Television includes: Top Boy (Netflix), Riches (ITV / Amazon Studios)

Film includes: Starred Up, I Used To Be Famous, Maryland

This is Jenny’s RSC debut

Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Lyric Theatre / Broadway), The Way of the World (Donmar Warehouse), Her Portmanteau (New York Theatre Workshop), The Crucible (Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway), Henry IV (St Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn), Father Comes Home from the Wars (Public Theater, New York), Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse / St Ann's Warehouse New York), King Lear, Ruined, The Homecoming, Big White Fog, A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre), Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Death and the King's Horseman (National Theatre), Ruined (Arena Stage, Washington DC), A Raisin in the Sun (Royal Exchange), Fabulation, Gem of the Ocean, Walk Hard, The Promise, Wine in the Wilderness, The Great White Hope, The Colour of Justice, Two Trains Running, Pecong (Tricycle Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (New Ambassadors), Born Bad (Hampstead Theatre)

Film includes: The Man Inside, A Short Stay in Switzerland, Octane, SW9, Wit, Up 'N' Under, Spiders and Flies

Television includes: New Amsterdam (NBC), Death in Paradise, Eastenders, Casualty, Vexed, Doctors, Judge John Deed, Holby City, NCS Manhunt, A Respectable Trade (BBC), Law and Order, Skins (E4), Vexed (BBC), Father and Son (Left Bank Pictures), The Golden Hour (Talkback Thames), I Saw You, Prime Suspect II (Granada Television), Kavanagh QC (Central Television), Little Napoleons (Channel 4)

Previous RSC Includes: The 13 Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo (RSC at Latitude Festival). As Movement Director: Hamlet

Theatre Includes: As Performer: The Tempest, Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse), The Late Henry Moss (W14 Productions, Southwark Playhouse), The Secret Agent (theatre O, Young Vic), Delirium (Theatre O, Barbican / Abbey Theatre, Dublin), Casanova (Told By An Idiot, Lyric Hammersmith / UK Tour), Lyndie's Got A Gun (Trafalgar Studios), Bond (theatre O, Battersea Arts Centre / Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh / UK Tour). As Co-Creator: Astronaut (theatre O, Barbican / UK Tour), The Argument (theatre O, Barbican / Edinburgh Festival / UK & World Tour), 3 Dark Tales (theatre O, Barbican / The Culture Project, New York / Assembly Rooms / World Tour). As Director: Rejkyavik (Shams), All Mapped Out (Gogolia), The Barber of Seville, Carmen (Opera 21), The Garden (shams, Edinburgh Festival / UK & International Tour). As Co-Director: The Lesson (theatre O), What If (tohu bohu / theatre O, Teatro Zona Nord Barcelona / Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh). As Movement Director: Ramona Tells Jim (Bush Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Liverpool Playhouse), Absurdia (Donmar Warehouse). As Associate Movement Director: Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse). As Creative Associate: Treasure Island (National Theatre)

Film includes: I Swear, A Little Chaos, Mirror Touch

Television includes: Grace (ITV), Killing Eve (Netflix), Call the Midwife (BBC)

Dame Harriet Walter is a highly respected, Olivier Award-winning British actress with a rich and varied body of work spanning across theatre, film, and television. She is an RSC Honorary Associate Artist.

Previous RSC includes: Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Venus and Adonis, The Hollow Crown, Twelfth Night, A Question of Geography, Cymbeline, Three Sisters, The Duchess of Malfi, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Twin Rivals, The Witch of Edmonton, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2

Other theatre includes: The Tempest, Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse), As You Like It, The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal Bath), The House of Bernarda Alba, Women Beware Women, Dinner, Life x 3, The Children’s Hour, Arcadia, A Fair Quarrel (National Theatre), The Royal Family, Old Times and Nicholas Nickleby (West End), Boa (Trafalgar Studios), Fallujah (Old Truman Brewery), Us and Them, Sweet Panic, La Musica (Hampstead), The Late Middle Classes (Palace Theatre Watford/ UK Tour), Ivanov, The Possessed (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Chichester Festival Theatre / UK Tour), Three Birds Alighting on a Field, The Seagull, Cloud Nine, Three More Sleepless Nights, Hamlet, The Lucky Chance (Royal Court), The Castle (Barbican), The Merchant of Venice (Royal Exchange Manchester)

Awards: Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival for A Question of Geography, Twelfth Night and Three Sisters, Evening Standard Award for Mary Stuart 

Television includes: MAYA, Brian and Maggie (Channel 4), Silo, Ted Lasso (Apple TV+), Youth, Succession (HBO), Ponies (Peacock), Playing Gracie Darling, Curfew (Paramount+), Black Mirror (Channel 4 / Netflix), The Crown (Netflix), Downtown Abbey, Belgravia (ITV), Killing Eve, Call The Midwife, The Cleaner, London Spy (BBC), This Is Going to Hurt (BBC / AMC), Patrick Melrose (Showtime / Sky Atlantic), Black Earth Rising (BBC / Netflix), The End (Fox Showcase / Sky Atlantic), Law & Order (NBC), The Assets (ABC), Documentary Now! (IFC)

Film includes: Shelter, The Last Duel, Atonement, Babel, The Young Victoria, Rocketman, Denial, The Sense of an Ending, My Dinner with Hervé, And Mrs, Your Christmas or Mine?, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Publications include: She Speaks: What Shakespeare’s Women Might Have Said, Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare’s Roles for Women, Other People’s Shoes: Thoughts on Acting, Facing It: Reflections on Images of Older Women, Macbeth: Portrait of a Marriage 

Training and accolades: Harriet trained at LAMDA and holds an honorary degree from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham in Stratford-upon-Avon.

She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2011.