Walter, an award-winning British stage actor who has featured in TV dramas including The Crown and Downton Abbey, played a doctor tending to Chewbacca in a brief scene from the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens.
Dame Harriet Walter has revealed that she received more fanmail for a blink-and-you-miss-it Star Wars cameo than any other performance in more than 40 years as a stage and screen actor.
“My strangest experience was my six words in Star Wars,” Walter said, in an interview published in the Radio Times.
“When it got really terrifying, I did think that I could just walk across the road and get on the Eurostar,” Walter said. “And I’d be in another country before they’d noticed I’d gone.