Janet McTeer
Acting
Born: August 5, 1961 (age 65) · Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Maleficent
2014
Me Before You
2016
Insurgent
2015
Allegiant
2016
The Menu
2022
The Woman in Black
2012
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
Ozark
2017
Marvel's Jessica Jones
2015
Fathers and Daughters
2015
MobLand
2025
Gangs of London
2020
Photos (2)
Movies (45)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Walters
Me Before You
Camilla Traynor
The Menu
Lillian
Maleficent
Narrator (voice)
Insurgent
Edith Prior
Allegiant
Edith Prior
Wuthering Heights
Ellen Dean
The Woman in Black
Mrs. Daily
Fathers and Daughters
Carolyn
The Exception
Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
Albert Nobbs
Hubert Page
Velvet Goldmine
Female Narrator (voice)
Into the Storm
Clementine Churchill
Hannah Arendt
Mary McCarthy
Miss Julie
Miss Julie
Tideland
Dell
Waking the Dead
Caroline Pierce
As You Like It
Audrey
Cat Run
Helen Bingham
Half Moon Street
Van Arkady's Secretary
Daphne
Gertrude Lawrence
Precious Bane
Prue Sarn
Dead Romantic
Madeleine Severn
The Intended
Sarah Morris
Tumbleweeds
Mary Jo Walker
Angelica
Anne Montague
Paint It Black
Meredith
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
Helen
Island
Phyllis
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
La Marquise de Merteuil
Carrington
Vanessa Bell
Songcatcher
Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
The King Is Alive
Liz
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Céleste Albaret
Saint-Ex
Genevieve de Ville-Franche
The Black Velvet Gown
Riah Millican
Weekends at Bellevue
Diane Wallace
Sweet Nothing
Caroline
Don't Leave Me This Way
Loretta Lawson
A Masculine Ending
Loretta Lawson
I Dreamt I Woke Up
Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
Glimpse
Lucienne
Hawks
Hazel
Yellowbacks
Dr Juliet Horwitz
Prince
Adult Claudie
TV Shows (26)
MobLand
Kat McAllister · 14 eps
Damages
Kate Franklin · 9 eps
Ozark
Helen Pierce · 17 eps
Agatha Christie's Marple
Anne Protheroe · 1 eps
Screen Two
Céleste Albaret · 1 eps
Screen Two
Madeleine Severn · 1 eps
Marvel's Jessica Jones
Alisa Jones · 13 eps
Gangs of London
Isabel Vaughn · 1 eps
The Old Man
Marion · 4 eps
The White Queen
Jacquetta of Luxembourg · 10 eps
KAOS
Hera · 8 eps
Screen One
Adult Claudie · 1 eps
The Play on One
Dr Juliet Horwitz · 1 eps
Battle Creek
Commander Guziewicz · 13 eps
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Dashwood · 3 eps
Five Days
DS Amy Foster · 10 eps
Psychoville
Cheryl · 2 eps
Sorry for Your Loss
Amy · 20 eps
The Honourable Woman
Julia Walsh · 8 eps
Parade's End
Mrs. Satterthwaite · 5 eps
The Artist
Marian Henry · 6 eps
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Catherine Walker · 6 eps
The Governor
Helen Hewitt · 12 eps
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
Narrator · 3 eps
Portrait of a Marriage
Vita Sackville-West · 4 eps
Hunter
DS Amy Foster · 2 eps
Self / Appearances (7)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 1 eps
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Self
Love, Marilyn
Self
Disclosure
Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
A Farewell to Ozark
Self
Killer in a Small Town
Self - Narrator(voice)
