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Janet McTeer
Actor, Producer, WriterBorn August 5, 1961 (63 years)
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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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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| 2025 | |
| 2025 | MobLand (TV Series) · as Kat |
| 2024 | KAOS (TV Series) · as Héra |
| 2023 | Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 2022 | The Menu · as Lillian |
| 2022 | The Old Man (TV Series) · as Marion |
| 2022 | |
| 2020 | Disclosure · as Hubert Page / Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Gangs of London (TV Series) · as Isabel Vaughn |
| 2018 | Sorry For Your Loss (TV Series) · as Amy |
| 2017 | Ozark (TV Series) · as Helen Pierce |
| 2016 | The Exception · as Princess Hermine 'hermo' Reuss Of Greiz |
| 2016 | Me Before You: Deleted Scenes · as Camilla Traynor |
| 2016 | Paint It Black · as Meredith |
| 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 (TV Series) · as Alisa Jones |
| 2015 | Fathers & Daughters · as Carolyn |
| 2015 | Insurgent · as Edith Prior |
| 2015 | Battle Creek (TV Series) · as Commander Guziewicz |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | The Honourable Woman (TV Series) · as Julia Walsh |
| 2014 | Maleficent · as Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | The White Queen (TV Series) · as Jacquetta Of Luxembourg |
| 2012 | Hannah Arendt · as Mary Mccarthy |
| 2012 | Parade's End (TV Series) · as Mrs. Satterthwaite |
| 2012 | The Woman in Black · as Mrs. Daily |
| 2011 | Albert Nobbs · as Hubert Page |
| 2011 | Island · as Phyllis |
| 2011 | Cat Run · as Helen Bingham |
| 2009 | Psychoville (TV Series) |
| 2009 | Into the Storm · as Clementine Churchill |
| 2009 | Hunter (2009) (TV Series) · as Ds Amy Foster |
| 2008 | Sense & Sensibility (2008) (TV Series) · as Mrs. Dashwood |
| 2007 | Five Days: Revised Final Episode · as Ds Amy Foster |
| 2007 | Damages (TV Series) · as Kate Franklin |
| 2007 | Daphne · as Gertrude Lawrence |
| 2007 | Five Days (TV Series) · as Ds Amy Foster |
| 2006 | The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (TV Series) · as Catherine Walker |
| 2006 | As You Like It · as Audrey |
| 2005 | Tideland · as Dell |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple (TV Series) · as Anne Protheroe |
| 2002 | The Intended · as Sarah Morris |
| 2000 | Songcatcher · as Professor Lily Penleric, Phd |
| 2000 | Animated Tales of the World (TV Series) · as Stepmother |
| 2000 | The King Is Alive · as Liz |
| 2000 | Waking the Dead · as Caroline Pierce |
| 1999 | Tumbleweeds · as Mary Jo Walker |
| 1998 | Velvet Goldmine · as Female Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Saint-Ex · as Genevieve De Ville-Franche |
| 1995 | The Governor (TV Series) |
| 1995 | Carrington · as Vanessa Bell |
| 1993 | Don't Leave Me This Way · as Loretta Lawson |
| 1992 | Wuthering Heights · as Ellen Dean |
| 1992 | A Masculine Ending · as Loretta Lawson |
| 1991 | The Black Velvet Gown · as Riah Millican |
| 1990 | Portrait of a Marriage (TV Series) · as Vita Sackville-West |
| 1990 | Yellowbacks · as Dr Juliet Horwitz |
| 1990 | Cutting Edge (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1989 | Precious Bane · as Prue Sarn |
| 1988 | Hawks · as Hazel |
| 1988 | The Play on One (TV Series) · as Dr Juliet Horwitz |
| 1986 | Half Moon Street · as Van Arkady's Secretary |
| 1985 | Screen One (TV Series) · as Adult Claudie |
| 1985 | Theatre Night (TV Series) · as Miss Julie |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Céleste Albaret |
| 1980 | Juliet Bravo (TV Series) · as Esther Pearson |