Janet McTeer
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.
Born: 05 August 1961
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Harry Potter
Minerva McGonagall
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Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Self
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Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic
Herself
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Nov 2025
The Artist
Marian Henry
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Walters
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MobLand
Kat McAllister
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Aug 2024
KAOS
Hera
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Nov 2023
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
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Mar 2023
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
Helen
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Nov 2022
The Menu
Lillian
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Jun 2022
The Old Man
Marion
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Glimpse
Lucienne
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Apr 2022
A Farewell to Ozark
Self
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Jun 2020
Disclosure
Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
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Gangs of London
Isabel Vaughn
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Sep 2018
Sorry for Your Loss
Amy
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Nov 2017
Angelica
Anne Montague
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Jul 2017
Ozark
Helen Pierce
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Jun 2017
The Exception
Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
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Jun 2016
Paint It Black
Meredith
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Jun 2016
Me Before You
Camilla Traynor
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Mar 2016
Allegiant
Edith Prior
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Jan 2016
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
La Marquise de Merteuil
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Nov 2015
Marvel's Jessica Jones
Alisa Jones
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Oct 2015
Fathers and Daughters
Carolyn
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Mar 2015
Insurgent
Edith Prior
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Mar 2015
Battle Creek
Commander Guziewicz
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Jul 2014
The Honourable Woman
Julia Walsh
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May 2014
Maleficent
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Jun 2013
The White Queen
Jacquetta of Luxembourg
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Love, Marilyn
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Hannah Arendt
Mary McCarthy
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Parade's End
Mrs. Satterthwaite
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The Woman in Black
Mrs. Daily
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Albert Nobbs
Hubert Page
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Island
Phyllis
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Cat Run
Helen Bingham
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Weekends at Bellevue
Diane Wallace
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Jun 2009
Psychoville
Cheryl
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May 2009
Into the Storm
Clementine Churchill
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Jan 2009
Hunter
DS Amy Foster
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Jan 2008
Sense and Sensibility
Mrs. Dashwood
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Jul 2007
Damages
Kate Franklin
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Jun 2007
Daphne
Gertrude Lawrence
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Feb 2007
The Making of 'Tideland'
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Jan 2007
Five Days
DS Amy Foster
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Oct 2006
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
Catherine Walker
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Sep 2006
As You Like It
Audrey
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Oct 2005
Tideland
Dell
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Dec 2004
Agatha Christie's Marple
Anne Protheroe
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Jan 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
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Jun 2002
The Intended
Sarah Morris
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Mar 2001
Songcatcher
Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
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May 2000
The King Is Alive
Liz
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Mar 2000
Waking the Dead
Caroline Pierce
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Nov 1999
Tumbleweeds
Mary Jo Walker
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Aug 1998
Velvet Goldmine
Female Narrator (voice)
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Nov 1996
Saint-Ex
Genevieve de Ville-Franche
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May 1995
Carrington
Vanessa Bell
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May 1995
The Governor
Helen Hewitt
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May 1993
Don't Leave Me This Way
Loretta Lawson
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Feb 1993
Dead Romantic
Madeleine Severn
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Oct 1992
Wuthering Heights
Ellen Dean
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Apr 1992
A Masculine Ending
Loretta Lawson
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Nov 1991
I Dreamt I Woke Up
Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
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Oct 1991
Prince
Adult Claudie
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Jun 1991
The Black Velvet Gown
Riah Millican
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Nov 1990
102 Boulevard Haussmann
Céleste Albaret
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Sep 1990
Sweet Nothing
Caroline
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Sep 1990
Portrait of a Marriage
Vita Sackville-West
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Aug 1990
Yellowbacks
Dr Juliet Horwitz
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Sep 1989
Screen One
Adult Claudie
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Jan 1989
Precious Bane
Prue Sarn
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Aug 1988
Hawks
Hazel
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Jan 1988
The Play on One
Dr Juliet Horwitz
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May 1987
Miss Julie
Miss Julie
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Aug 1986
Half Moon Street
Van Arkady's Secretary
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Jan 1985
Screen Two
Céleste Albaret
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Jan 1985
Screen Two
Madeleine Severn
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Mar 1953
The Oscars
Self