
Janet McTeer
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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Credits
- 2025 · Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning as
- 2024 · KAOS as Hera
- 2024 · KAOS as Héra
- 2022 · The Menu as Lillian
- 2022 · The Old Man as Marion
- 2020 · Disclosure as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Gangs of London as Isabel Vaughn
- 2018 · Sorry For Your Loss as Amy
- 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
- 2015 · Marvel's Jessica Jones as
- 2015 · Marvel's Jessica Jones as Alisa Jones
- 2015 · Fathers and Daughters as Carolyn
- 2015 · Insurgent as Edith Prior
- 2015 · Battle Creek as Commander Guziewicz
- 2014 · The Honourable Woman as Julia Walsh
- 2014 · Maleficent as Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · The White Queen as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
- 2012 · Parade's End as Mrs. Satterthwaite
- 2012 · The Woman in Black as Mrs. Daily
- 2011 · Albert Nobbs as Hubert Page
- 2009 · Psychoville as
- 2008 · Sense and Sensibility as Mrs. Dashwood
- 2007 · Five Days as DS Amy Foster
- 2006 · The Amazing Mrs Pritchard as Catherine Walker
- 2006 · As You Like It as Audrey
- 2005 · Tideland as Dell
- 2004 · Agatha Christie's Marple as Anne Protheroe
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- 1998 · Velvet Goldmine as Female Narrator (voice)
- 1995 · The Governor as
- 1992 · Wuthering Heights as Ellen Dean
- 1988 · The Play on One as Dr Juliet Horwitz
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self
- Future · Harry Potter as Minerva McGonagall
- Future · The Artist as Marian Henry
- 2023 · Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator as Narrator
- 2023 · National Theatre Live: Phaedra as Helen
- 2022 · Glimpse as Lucienne
- 2022 · A Farewell to Ozark as Self
- 2017 · Angelica as Anne Montague
- 2016 · Paint It Black as Meredith
- 2016 · National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses as La Marquise de Merteuil
- 2013 · Love, Marilyn as Self
- 2012 · Hannah Arendt as Mary McCarthy
- 2011 · Island as Phyllis
- 2011 · Cat Run as Helen Bingham
- 2009 · Into the Storm as Clementine Churchill
- 2009 · Hunter as DS Amy Foster
- 2007 · Daphne as Gertrude Lawrence
- 2007 · The Making of 'Tideland' as Self
- 2002 · The Intended as Sarah Morris
- 2001 · Songcatcher as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
- 2000 · The King Is Alive as Liz
- 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
- 1993 · Don't Leave Me This Way as Loretta Lawson
- 1993 · Dead Romantic as Madeleine Severn
- 1992 · A Masculine Ending as Loretta Lawson
- 1991 · I Dreamt I Woke Up as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
- 1991 · Prince as Adult Claudie
- 1991 · The Black Velvet Gown as Riah Millican
- 1990 · 102 Boulevard Haussmann as Céleste Albaret
- 1990 · Sweet Nothing as Caroline
- 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
- Future · Weekends at Bellevue as Diane Wallace