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Name
Janet McTeer

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1961-08-05 (65 years old)

Place of Birth
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

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

Movies

Tv Shows

2000 The King Is Alive as Liz
2005 Tideland as Dell
2009 Into the Storm as Clementine Churchill
2001 Songcatcher as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
2000 Waking the Dead as Caroline Pierce
2011 Island as Phyllis
2012 The Woman in Black as Mrs. Daily
1995 Carrington as Vanessa Bell
1990 Yellowbacks as Dr Juliet Horwitz
2006 As You Like It as Audrey
1999 Tumbleweeds as Mary Jo Walker
2011 Cat Run as Helen Bingham
2013 Love, Marilyn as Self
2012 Hannah Arendt as Mary McCarthy
1996 Saint-Ex as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
1988 Hawks as Hazel
1991 The Black Velvet Gown as Riah Millican
2007 Daphne as Gertrude Lawrence
2022 Glimpse as Lucienne
2022 A Farewell to Ozark as Self
2020 Disclosure as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
2025 Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Walters
2017 Angelica as Anne Montague
1986 Half Moon Street as Van Arkady's Secretary
1990 Sweet Nothing as Caroline
1992 Wuthering Heights as Ellen Dean
1991 Prince as Adult Claudie
2014 Maleficent as Narrator (voice)
2017 The Exception as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
2016 National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as La Marquise de Merteuil
1993 Don't Leave Me This Way as Loretta Lawson
2016 Me Before You as Camilla Traynor
1998 Velvet Goldmine as Female Narrator (voice)
2011 Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
2016 Paint It Black as Meredith
1992 A Masculine Ending as Loretta Lawson
2016 Allegiant as Edith Prior
1991 I Dreamt I Woke Up as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
1987 Miss Julie as Miss Julie
2015 Fathers and Daughters as Carolyn
2002 The Intended as Sarah Morris
1989 Precious Bane as Prue Sarn
1990 102 Boulevard Haussmann as Céleste Albaret
1993 Dead Romantic as Madeleine Severn
2007 The Making of 'Tideland' as Self
2015 Insurgent as Edith Prior
2022 The Menu as Lillian
2011 Weekends at Bellevue as Diane Wallace
2023 National Theatre Live: Phaedra as Helen
2026 Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic as Self
2009 Killer in a Small Town as Self - Narrator(voice)

2006 The Amazing Mrs Pritchard ( 6 episodes ) as Catherine Walker
2007 Five Days ( 10 episodes ) as DS Amy Foster
2008 Sense and Sensibility ( 3 episodes ) as Mrs. Dashwood
2009 Hunter ( 2 episodes ) as DS Amy Foster
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
2012 Parade's End ( 5 episodes ) as Mrs. Satterthwaite
2014 The Honourable Woman ( 8 episodes ) as Julia Walsh
2013 The White Queen ( 10 episodes ) as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
2015 Battle Creek ( 13 episodes ) as Commander Guziewicz
1990 Portrait of a Marriage ( 4 episodes ) as Vita Sackville-West
2015 Marvel's Jessica Jones ( 13 episodes ) as Alisa Jones
2023 Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator ( 3 episodes ) as Narrator
2018 Sorry for Your Loss ( 20 episodes ) as Amy
2004 Agatha Christie's Marple ( 1 episode ) as Anne Protheroe
2017 Ozark ( 17 episodes ) as Helen Pierce
2024 KAOS ( 8 episodes ) as Hera
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 The Old Man ( 4 episodes ) as Marion
2025 The Artist ( 6 episodes ) as Marian Henry
2020 Gangs of London ( 1 episode ) as Isabel Vaughn
2026 Harry Potter ( 1 episode ) as Minerva McGonagall
2025 MobLand ( 14 episodes ) as Kat McAllister
2007 Damages ( 9 episodes ) as Kate Franklin
2009 Psychoville ( 2 episodes ) as Cheryl
1989 Screen One ( 1 episode ) as Adult Claudie
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Céleste Albaret
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Madeleine Severn
1995 The Governor ( 12 episodes ) as Helen Hewitt
1988 The Play on One ( 1 episode ) as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1988 Les Girls ( 7 episodes ) as Susan

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