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Janet McTeer

Born 1961-08-05
📍 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

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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Filmography 76

Harry Potter
as Minerva McGonagall
2026
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
as Self
2026
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
as Herself
2026
The Artist
as Marian Henry
2025
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
as Walters
2025
MobLand
as Kat McAllister
2025
KAOS
as Hera
2024
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
as Narrator
2023
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
as Helen
2023
The Menu
as Lillian
2022
The Old Man
as Marion
2022
Glimpse
as Lucienne
2022
A Farewell to Ozark
as Self
2022
Disclosure
as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
2020
Gangs of London
as Isabel Vaughn
2020
Sorry for Your Loss
as Amy
2018
Angelica
as Anne Montague
2017
Ozark
as Helen Pierce
2017
The Exception
as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
2017
Paint It Black
as Meredith
2016
Me Before You
as Camilla Traynor
2016
Allegiant
as Edith Prior
2016
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
as La Marquise de Merteuil
2016
Marvel's Jessica Jones
as Alisa Jones
2015
Fathers and Daughters
as Carolyn
2015
Insurgent
as Edith Prior
2015
Battle Creek
as Commander Guziewicz
2015
The Honourable Woman
as Julia Walsh
2014
Maleficent
as Narrator (voice)
2014
The White Queen
as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
2013
Love, Marilyn
as Self
2013
Hannah Arendt
as Mary McCarthy
2012
Parade's End
as Mrs. Satterthwaite
2012
The Woman in Black
as Mrs. Daily
2012
Albert Nobbs
as Hubert Page
2011
Island
as Phyllis
2011
Cat Run
as Helen Bingham
2011
Weekends at Bellevue
as Diane Wallace
2011
Psychoville
as Cheryl
2009
Into the Storm
as Clementine Churchill
2009
Hunter
as DS Amy Foster
2009
Sense and Sensibility
as Mrs. Dashwood
2008
Damages
as Kate Franklin
2007
Daphne
as Gertrude Lawrence
2007
Five Days
as DS Amy Foster
2007
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
as Catherine Walker
2006
As You Like It
as Audrey
2006
Tideland
as Dell
2005
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Anne Protheroe
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
The Intended
as Sarah Morris
2002
Songcatcher
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
2001
The King Is Alive
as Liz
2000
Waking the Dead
as Caroline Pierce
2000
Tumbleweeds
as Mary Jo Walker
1999
Velvet Goldmine
as Female Narrator (voice)
1998
Saint-Ex
as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
1996
Carrington
as Vanessa Bell
1995
The Governor
1995
Don't Leave Me This Way
as Loretta Lawson
1993
Dead Romantic
as Madeleine Severn
1993
Wuthering Heights
as Ellen Dean
1992
A Masculine Ending
as Loretta Lawson
1992
I Dreamt I Woke Up
as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
1991
Prince
as Adult Claudie
1991
The Black Velvet Gown
as Riah Millican
1991
102 Boulevard Haussmann
as Céleste Albaret
1990
Sweet Nothing
as Caroline
1990
Portrait of a Marriage
as Vita Sackville-West
1990
Yellowbacks
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1990
Precious Bane
as Prue Sarn
1989
Hawks
as Hazel
1988
The Play on One
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
1988
Miss Julie
as Miss Julie
1987
Half Moon Street
as Van Arkady's Secretary
1986
The Oscars
as Self
1953