Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 05, 1961
Place of Birth
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Credits
80 titles
Janet McTeer
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.
Known For
Filmography
Harry Potter
Minerva McGonagall
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Self
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
Herself
The Artist
Marian Henry
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Walters
MobLand
Kat McAllister
KAOS
Hera
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
Helen
The Menu
Lillian
The Old Man
Marion
Glimpse
Lucienne
A Farewell to Ozark
Self
Disclosure
Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
Gangs of London
Isabel Vaughn
Sorry for Your Loss
Amy
Angelica
Anne Montague
Ozark
Helen Pierce
The Exception
Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
Paint It Black
Meredith
Me Before You
Camilla Traynor
Allegiant
Edith Prior
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
La Marquise de Merteuil
Marvel's Jessica Jones
Alisa Jones
Fathers and Daughters
Carolyn
Insurgent
Edith Prior
Battle Creek
Commander Guziewicz
The Honourable Woman
Julia Walsh
Maleficent
Narrator (voice)
The White Queen
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Love, Marilyn
Self
Hannah Arendt
Mary McCarthy
Parade's End
Mrs. Satterthwaite
The Woman in Black
Mrs. Daily
Albert Nobbs
Hubert Page
Island
Phyllis
Cat Run
Helen Bingham
Weekends at Bellevue
Diane Wallace
Psychoville
Cheryl
Into the Storm
Clementine Churchill
Hunter
DS Amy Foster
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Dashwood
Damages
Kate Franklin
Daphne
Gertrude Lawrence
The Making of 'Tideland'
Self
Five Days
DS Amy Foster
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Catherine Walker
As You Like It
Audrey
Tideland
Dell
Agatha Christie's Marple
Anne Protheroe