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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 5, 1961
Place of Birth:
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
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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).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | Walters |
| 2023 | National Theatre Live: Phaedra | Helen |
| 2022 | Glimpse | Lucienne |
| 2022 | A Farewell to Ozark | Self |
| 2022 | The Menu | Lillian |
| 2020 | Disclosure | Hubert Page / Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Angelica | Anne Montague |
| 2017 | The Exception | Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz |
| 2016 | National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | La Marquise de Merteuil |
| 2016 | Me Before You | Camilla Traynor |
| 2016 | Paint It Black | Meredith |
| 2016 | Allegiant | Edith Prior |
| 2015 | Fathers and Daughters | Carolyn |
| 2015 | Insurgent | Edith Prior |
| 2014 | Maleficent | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Self |
| 2012 | The Woman in Black | Mrs. Daily |
| 2012 | Hannah Arendt | Mary McCarthy |
| 2011 | Island | Phyllis |
| 2011 | Cat Run | Helen Bingham |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs | Hubert Page |
| 2009 | Into the Storm | Clementine Churchill |
| 2007 | Daphne | Gertrude Lawrence |
| 2007 | The Making of 'Tideland' | Self |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Audrey |
| 2005 | Tideland | Dell |
| 2002 | The Intended | Sarah Morris |
| 2001 | Songcatcher | Professor Lily Penleric, PhD |
| 2000 | The King Is Alive | Liz |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead | Caroline Pierce |
| 1999 | Tumbleweeds | Mary Jo Walker |
| 1998 | Velvet Goldmine | Female Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Saint-Ex | Genevieve de Ville-Franche |
| 1995 | Carrington | Vanessa Bell |
| 1993 | Don't Leave Me This Way | Loretta Lawson |
| 1993 | Dead Romantic | Madeleine Severn |
| 1992 | Wuthering Heights | Ellen Dean |
| 1992 | A Masculine Ending | Loretta Lawson |
| 1991 | The Black Velvet Gown | Riah Millican |
| 1991 | Prince | Adult Claudie |
| 1991 | I Dreamt I Woke Up | Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist |
| 1990 | Yellowbacks | Dr Juliet Horwitz |
| 1990 | Sweet Nothing | Caroline |
| 1990 | 102 Boulevard Haussmann | Céleste Albaret |
| 1989 | Precious Bane | Prue Sarn |
| 1988 | Hawks | Hazel |
| 1987 | Miss Julie | Miss Julie |
| 1986 | Half Moon Street | Van Arkady's Secretary |
| Weekends at Bellevue | Diane Wallace |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MobLand | Kat McAllister |
| 2024 | KAOS | Hera |
| 2023 | Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator | Narrator |
| 2022 | The Old Man | Marion |
| 2020 | Gangs of London | Isabel Vaughn |
| 2018 | Sorry For Your Loss | Amy |
| 2017 | Ozark | Helen Pierce |
| 2015 | Battle Creek | Commander Guziewicz |
| 2015 | Marvel's Jessica Jones | Alisa Jones |
| 2014 | The Honourable Woman | Julia Walsh |
| 2013 | The White Queen | Jacquetta of Luxembourg |
| 2012 | Parade's End | Mrs. Satterthwaite |
| 2009 | Hunter | DS Amy Foster |
| 2009 | Psychoville | |
| 2008 | Sense and Sensibility | Mrs. Dashwood |
| 2007 | Five Days | DS Amy Foster |
| 2006 | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Catherine Walker |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Anne Protheroe |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self |
| 1995 | The Governor | |
| 1990 | Portrait of a Marriage | Vita Sackville-West |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Dr Juliet Horwitz |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| The Artist | Marian Henry | |
| Harry Potter | Minerva McGonagall |