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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 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 for Tumbleweeds in 1999 and the other for Best Supporting Actress for 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 about Janet McTeer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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The King Is Alive | Liz | 2000 |
Tideland | Dell | 2005 |
Into the Storm | Clementine Churchill | 2009 |
Songcatcher | Professor Lily Penleric, PhD | 2001 |
Waking the Dead | Caroline Pierce | 2000 |
Island | Phyllis | 2011 |
The Woman in Black | Mrs. Daily | 2012 |
Carrington | Vanessa Bell | 1995 |
Yellowbacks | Dr Juliet Horwitz | 1990 |
As You Like It | Audrey | 2006 |
Tumbleweeds | Mary Jo Walker | 1999 |
Cat Run | Helen Bingham | 2011 |
National Theatre Live: Phaedra | Helen | 2023 |
Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013 |
Hannah Arendt | Mary McCarthy | 2012 |
Saint-Ex | Genevieve de Ville-Franche | 1996 |
Hawks | Hazel | 1988 |
The Black Velvet Gown | Riah Millican | 1991 |
Daphne | Gertrude Lawrence | 2007 |
Glimpse | Lucienne | 2022 |
A Farewell to Ozark | Self | 2022 |
Disclosure | Hubert Page / Self (archive footage) | 2020 |
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning | 2025 | |
Weekends at Bellevue | Diane Wallace | 1970 |
Angelica | Anne Montague | 2017 |
Half Moon Street | Van Arkady's Secretary | 1986 |
Sweet Nothing | Caroline | 1990 |
Wuthering Heights | Ellen Dean | 1992 |
Prince | Adult Claudie | 1991 |
Maleficent | Narrator (voice) | 2014 |
The Exception | Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz | 2017 |
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses | La Marquise de Merteuil | 2016 |
Don't Leave Me This Way | Loretta Lawson | 1993 |
Me Before You | Camilla Traynor | 2016 |
Velvet Goldmine | Female Narrator (voice) | 1998 |
Albert Nobbs | Hubert Page | 2011 |
Paint It Black | Meredith | 2016 |
A Masculine Ending | Loretta Lawson | 1992 |
Allegiant | Edith Prior | 2016 |
I Dreamt I Woke Up | Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist | 1991 |
Miss Julie | Miss Julie | 1987 |
Fathers and Daughters | Carolyn | 2015 |
The Intended | Sarah Morris | 2002 |
Precious Bane | Prue Sarn | 1989 |
102 Boulevard Haussmann | Céleste Albaret | 1990 |
Dead Romantic | Madeleine Severn | 1993 |
The Making of 'Tideland' | Self | 2007 |
Insurgent | Edith Prior | 2015 |
The Menu | Lillian | 2022 |
Series | Cast | Year |
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard | Catherine Walker | 2006 |
Five Days | DS Amy Foster | 2007 |
Sense and Sensibility | Mrs. Dashwood | 2008 |
Hunter | DS Amy Foster | 2009 |
The Governor | 1995 | |
The Oscars | Self | 1953 |
Parade's End | Mrs. Satterthwaite | 2012 |
The Honourable Woman | Julia Walsh | 2014 |
The White Queen | Jacquetta of Luxembourg | 2013 |
Battle Creek | Commander Guziewicz | 2015 |
Psychoville | 2009 | |
Marvel's Jessica Jones | 2015 | |
Portrait of a Marriage | Vita Sackville-West | 1990 |
Marvel's Jessica Jones | Alisa Jones | 2015 |
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator | Narrator | 2023 |
Sorry For Your Loss | Amy | 2018 |
Agatha Christie's Marple | Anne Protheroe | 2004 |
Ozark | Helen Pierce | 2017 |
The Play on One | Dr Juliet Horwitz | 1988 |
KAOS | Hera | 2024 |
Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | 2003 |
The Old Man | Marion | 2022 |
KAOS | Héra | 2024 |
The Artist | 2025 |