
Janet McTeer
Acting • Born 1961-08-05
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.
Filmography
75 credits
The King Is Alive
Movie • 2000
Liz

Tideland
Movie • 2005
Dell

Into the Storm
Movie • 2009
Clementine Churchill

Songcatcher
Movie • 2001
Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

Waking the Dead
Movie • 2000
Caroline Pierce

Island
Movie • 2011
Phyllis

The Woman in Black
Movie • 2012
Mrs. Daily

Carrington
Movie • 1995
Vanessa Bell

Yellowbacks
Movie • 1990
Dr Juliet Horwitz

As You Like It
Movie • 2006
Audrey

Tumbleweeds
Movie • 1999
Mary Jo Walker

Cat Run
Movie • 2011
Helen Bingham

Love, Marilyn
Movie • 2013
Self

Hannah Arendt
Movie • 2012
Mary McCarthy

Saint-Ex
Movie • 1996
Genevieve de Ville-Franche

Hawks
Movie • 1988
Hazel

The Black Velvet Gown
Movie • 1991
Riah Millican

Daphne
Movie • 2007
Gertrude Lawrence

Glimpse
Movie • 2022
Lucienne

A Farewell to Ozark
Movie • 2022
Self

Disclosure
Movie • 2020
Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Movie • 2025
Walters

Angelica
Movie • 2017
Anne Montague

Half Moon Street
Movie • 1986
Van Arkady's Secretary

Sweet Nothing
Movie • 1990
Caroline

Wuthering Heights
Movie • 1992
Ellen Dean

Prince
Movie • 1991
Adult Claudie

Maleficent
Movie • 2014
Narrator (voice)

The Exception
Movie • 2017
Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Movie • 2016
La Marquise de Merteuil

Don't Leave Me This Way
Movie • 1993
Loretta Lawson

Me Before You
Movie • 2016
Camilla Traynor

Velvet Goldmine
Movie • 1998
Female Narrator (voice)

Albert Nobbs
Movie • 2011
Hubert Page

Paint It Black
Movie • 2016
Meredith

A Masculine Ending
Movie • 1992
Loretta Lawson

Allegiant
Movie • 2016
Edith Prior

I Dreamt I Woke Up
Movie • 1991
Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist

Miss Julie
Movie • 1987
Miss Julie

Fathers and Daughters
Movie • 2015
Carolyn

The Intended
Movie • 2002
Sarah Morris

Precious Bane
Movie • 1989
Prue Sarn

102 Boulevard Haussmann
Movie • 1990
Céleste Albaret

Dead Romantic
Movie • 1993
Madeleine Severn

The Making of 'Tideland'
Movie • 2007
Self

Insurgent
Movie • 2015
Edith Prior

The Menu
Movie • 2022
Lillian

Weekends at Bellevue
Movie • 2011
Diane Wallace

National Theatre Live: Phaedra
Movie • 2023
Helen

The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
TV • 2006
Catherine Walker

Five Days
TV • 2007
DS Amy Foster

Sense and Sensibility
TV • 2008
Mrs. Dashwood

Hunter
TV • 2009
DS Amy Foster

The Governor
TV • 1995

The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self

Parade's End
TV • 2012
Mrs. Satterthwaite

The Honourable Woman
TV • 2014
Julia Walsh

The White Queen
TV • 2013
Jacquetta of Luxembourg

Battle Creek
TV • 2015
Commander Guziewicz

Psychoville
TV • 2009

Portrait of a Marriage
TV • 1990
Vita Sackville-West

Marvel's Jessica Jones
TV • 2015
Alisa Jones

Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
TV • 2023
Narrator

Sorry For Your Loss
TV • 2018
Amy

Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Anne Protheroe

Ozark
TV • 2017
Helen Pierce

The Play on One
TV • 1988
Dr Juliet Horwitz

KAOS
TV • 2024
Hera

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self

The Old Man
TV • 2022
Marion

The Artist
TV • 2025
Marian Henry

Gangs of London
TV • 2020
Isabel Vaughn

Harry Potter
TV
Minerva McGonagall

MobLand
TV • 2025
Kat McAllister

Damages
TV • 2007
Kate Franklin