Janet McTeer
Born: 1961-08-05 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2025
- Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as Walters
- MobLand as Kat McAllister
- The Artist as Marian Henry
2024
- KAOS as Hera
2023
- National Theatre Live: Phaedra as Helen
- Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator as Narrator
2022
- The Menu as Lillian
- The Old Man as Marion
- Glimpse as Lucienne
- A Farewell to Ozark as Self
2020
- Gangs of London as Isabel Vaughn
- Disclosure as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
2018
- Sorry For Your Loss as Amy
2017
- Ozark as Helen Pierce
- The Exception as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
- Angelica as Anne Montague
2016
- Me Before You as Camilla Traynor
- Allegiant as Edith Prior
- National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as La Marquise de Merteuil
- Paint It Black as Meredith
2015
- Marvel's Jessica Jones as Alisa Jones
- Insurgent as Edith Prior
- Battle Creek as Commander Guziewicz
- Fathers and Daughters as Carolyn
2014
- Maleficent as Narrator (voice)
- The Honourable Woman as Julia Walsh
2013
- Love, Marilyn as Self
- The White Queen as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
2012
- Hannah Arendt as Mary McCarthy
- The Woman in Black as Mrs. Daily
- Parade's End as Mrs. Satterthwaite
2011
- Cat Run as Helen Bingham
- Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
- Island as Phyllis
2009
- Into the Storm as Clementine Churchill
- Psychoville
- Hunter as DS Amy Foster
2008
- Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Dashwood
2007
- Five Days as DS Amy Foster
- Daphne as Gertrude Lawrence
- The Making of 'Tideland' as Self
2006
- As You Like It as Audrey
- The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Catherine Walker
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
- Waking the Dead as Caroline Pierce
- The King Is Alive as Liz
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
- The Governor
1993
- Don't Leave Me This Way as Loretta Lawson
- Dead Romantic as Madeleine Severn
1992
- Wuthering Heights as Ellen Dean
- A Masculine Ending as Loretta Lawson
1991
- Prince as Adult Claudie
- I Dreamt I Woke Up as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
- The Black Velvet Gown as Riah Millican
1990
- Sweet Nothing as Caroline
- 102 Boulevard Haussmann as Céleste Albaret
- Portrait of a Marriage as Vita Sackville-West
- Yellowbacks as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1989
- Precious Bane as Prue Sarn
1988
- Hawks as Hazel
- 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