
Janet McTeer
1 FOLLOWER • 39 CREDITS • AUG 5, 1961 • 64
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).
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Known For

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Gangs of London

The Oscars

Agatha Christie's Marple

MobLand

The Old Man

KAOS

The Play on One

Allegiant

Maleficent

Insurgent

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Fathers and Daughters

Ozark

Velvet Goldmine

Waking the Dead

Marvel's Jessica Jones

Sweet Nothing

Sense and Sensibility

Into the Storm

The Exception

The Menu

The White Queen

Prince

Wuthering Heights

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

Harry Potter

Island

Battle Creek

Me Before You

Cat Run

Sorry For Your Loss

102 Boulevard Haussmann

Don't Leave Me This Way

Precious Bane

A Masculine Ending

Yellowbacks

Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator

The Governor
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