Birthdate: Nov 28, 1994
Birthplace: Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Harriet Slater is a British female actor best known for her recurring role as Sandra in the DC Comics Batman prequel series, Pennyworth (2019-2022), and in Epix Studios’ TV series sequel, Belgravia: The Next Chapter (2024), she debuted in features with a co-starring role in the Swedish-British-American-backed fantasy, Emily and the Magical Journey (2020), directed and co-written by Marcus Ovnell, and co-starring Tipper Seifert-Cleveland, Chelsea Edge, and Jenny Lampa.
Slater was cast in a supporting role in her first Hollywood movie with the long-awaited sequel, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), co-written and directed by James Mangold and starring Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, and Mads Mikkelsen, and which premiered out of competition in the 2023 Cannes Film Festival before release by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures for a poor $384 million global return against a $387 million budget.
Slater had her first starring big-screen role in co-writer/co-director Spenser Cohen’s and Anna Halberg’s horror movie, Tarot (2024), with Adain Bradley, Avantika Vandanapu, and Wolfgang Novogratz, and released in a wide pattern by Screen Gems/Sony Pictures. Slater co-starred with Erin Moriarty and Jamie Campbell Bower in the Gary Fleder-directed horror movie, The Haunting in Wicker Park (date to be announced), for Screen Gems/Sony Pictures.
Her parents raised Harriet Slater in Leicester, England. Slater began performing on stage at age six with the Little Theatre in Leicester. Slater studied acting and theater at the Guilford School of Acting, from which she graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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What I Want to Be When I Grow Up: Even though she was already acting at six years old, Harriet Slater also desired to be a builder/architect and then an archaeologist.
Advice: Slater has suggested “We need to listen more. I think we’re very divided right now and we can be quick to judge each other and shout each other down. I think the world would be a better place if we were all a little bit kinder and more patient and the time to empathize, wherever possible.”