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