Janet McTeer
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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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
76
Gender
Female
Birthday
1961-08-05 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Acting

2025

MobLand as Kat McAllister

2024

KAOS as Hera

2022

The Menu as Lillian

2022

The Old Man as Marion

2022

A Farewell to Ozark as Self

2022

Glimpse as Lucienne

2020

Gangs of London as Isabel Vaughn

2020

Disclosure as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)

2017

Ozark as Helen Pierce

2017

The Exception as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz

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

Insurgent as Edith Prior

2015

Fathers and Daughters as Carolyn

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

The Woman in Black as Mrs. Daily

2011

Cat Run as Helen Bingham

2011

Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page

2008

Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Dashwood

2005

Tideland as Dell

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Anne Protheroe

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self

2000

Waking the Dead as Caroline Pierce

1999

Tumbleweeds as Mary Jo Walker

1996

Saint-Ex as Genevieve de Ville-Franche

1995

Carrington as Vanessa Bell

1992

A Masculine Ending as Loretta Lawson

1992

Wuthering Heights as Ellen Dean

1953

The Oscars as Self

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Weekends at Bellevue as Diane Wallace

2017

Angelica as Anne Montague

2016

Paint It Black as Meredith

2015

Battle Creek as Commander Guziewicz

2014

The Honourable Woman as Julia Walsh

2012

Parade's End as Mrs. Satterthwaite

2011

Island as Phyllis

2009

Psychoville as Not available

2009

Into the Storm as Clementine Churchill

2009

Hunter as DS Amy Foster

2007

Five Days as DS Amy Foster

2007

Daphne as Gertrude Lawrence

2006

As You Like It as Audrey

2002

The Intended as Sarah Morris

2001

Songcatcher as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

2000

The King Is Alive as Liz

1998

Velvet Goldmine as Female Narrator (voice)

1988

The Play on One as Dr Juliet Horwitz

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Harry Potter as Minerva McGonagall

2006

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Catherine Walker

1995

The Governor as Not available

1993

Don't Leave Me This Way as Loretta Lawson

1993

Dead Romantic as Madeleine Severn

1991

Prince as Adult Claudie

1991

I Dreamt I Woke Up as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist

1991

The Black Velvet Gown as Riah Millican

1990

Sweet Nothing as Caroline

1990

102 Boulevard Haussmann as Céleste Albaret

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

1987

Miss Julie as Miss Julie

1986

Half Moon Street as Van Arkady's Secretary

NaN

The Artist as Marian Henry
Crew

2016

Paint It Black Executive Producer

2002

The Intended Writer