Janet McTeer

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1961-08-05

Place of Birth

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

Janet McTeer

Biography

Janet McTeer OBE (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress. She began her career training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before earning acclaim for playing diverse roles on stage and screen in both period pieces and modern dramas. She has received numerous accolades, including a Tony Award, an Olivier Award, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for two Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award. In 2008, she was appointed as an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services in drama. McTeer made her professional stage debut in 1984 and was nominated for the 1986 Olivier Award for Best Newcomer for The Grace of Mary Traverse. She received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her A Doll's House performance in 1997. For her roles on Broadway, she received two other nominations for Mary Stuart in 2009 and Bernhardt/Hamlet in 2019. McTeer has also gained acclaim for her film roles, having received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Actress in Tumbleweeds in 1999 and the other for Best Supporting Actress in Albert Nobbs in 2011. Other roles include Wuthering Heights (1992), Carrington (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Songcatcher (2000), As You Like It (2006), The Divergent Series (2015–2016), and The Menu (2022).  On television, she starred in the title role of Lynda La Plante's The Governor (1995–1996). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying Clementine Churchill in the HBO film Into the Storm (2009). She is also known for her roles in Damages (2012), The White Queen (2013), The Honourable Woman (2014), Jessica Jones (2018), Sorry for Your Loss (2018–2019), and Ozark (2018–2020). Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet McTeer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Acting History

2025
The Artist as Marian Henry
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Walters
2025
MobLand as Kat McAllister
2024
KAOS as Hera
2023
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator as Narrator
2023
National Theatre Live: Phaedra as Helen
2022
The Menu as Lillian
2022
The Old Man as Marion
2022
Glimpse as Lucienne
2022
A Farewell to Ozark as Self
2020
Disclosure as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
2020
Gangs of London as Isabel Vaughn
2018
Sorry For Your Loss as Amy
2017
Angelica as Anne Montague
2017
Ozark as Helen Pierce
2017
The Exception as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
2016
Paint It Black as Meredith
2016
Me Before You as Camilla Traynor
2016
Allegiant as Edith Prior
2016
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as La Marquise de Merteuil
2015
Marvel's Jessica Jones as Alisa Jones
2015
Fathers and Daughters as Carolyn
2015
Insurgent as Edith Prior
2015
Battle Creek as Commander Guziewicz
2014
The Honourable Woman as Julia Walsh
2014
Maleficent as Narrator (voice)
2013
The White Queen as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
2013
Love, Marilyn as Self
2012
Hannah Arendt as Mary McCarthy
2012
Parade's End as Mrs. Satterthwaite
2012
The Woman in Black as Mrs. Daily
2011
Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
2011
Island as Phyllis
2011
Cat Run as Helen Bingham
2009
Psychoville
2009
Into the Storm as Clementine Churchill
2009
Hunter as DS Amy Foster
2008
Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Dashwood
2007
Damages as Kate Franklin
2007
Daphne as Gertrude Lawrence
2007
The Making of 'Tideland' as Self
2007
Five Days as DS Amy Foster
2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Catherine Walker
2006
As You Like It as Audrey
2005
Tideland as Dell
2004
Agatha Christie's Marple as Anne Protheroe
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002
The Intended as Sarah Morris
2001
Songcatcher as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
2000
The King Is Alive as Liz
2000
Waking the Dead as Caroline Pierce
1999
Tumbleweeds as Mary Jo Walker
1998
Velvet Goldmine as Female Narrator (voice)
1996
Saint-Ex as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
1995
Carrington as Vanessa Bell
1995
The Governor
1993
Don't Leave Me This Way as Loretta Lawson
1993
Dead Romantic as Madeleine Severn
1992
Wuthering Heights as Ellen Dean
1992
A Masculine Ending as Loretta Lawson
1991
I Dreamt I Woke Up as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
1991
Prince as Adult Claudie
1991
The Black Velvet Gown as Riah Millican
1990
102 Boulevard Haussmann as Céleste Albaret
1990
Sweet Nothing as Caroline
1990
Portrait of a Marriage as Vita Sackville-West
1990
Yellowbacks as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1989
Precious Bane as Prue Sarn
1988
Hawks as Hazel
1988
The Play on One as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1987
Miss Julie as Miss Julie
1986
Half Moon Street as Van Arkady's Secretary
1953
The Oscars as Self
Harry Potter as Minerva McGonagall