Janet McTeer
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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
Credits
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
as Walters
Insurgent (2015)
as Edith Prior
Me Before You (2016)
as Camilla Traynor
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic (2026)
as Self
Maleficent (2014)
as Narrator (voice)
The Menu (2022)
as Lillian
Allegiant (2016)
as Edith Prior
Dead Romantic (1993)
as Madeleine Severn
The Woman in Black (2012)
as Mrs. Daily
Fathers and Daughters (2015)
as Carolyn
Wuthering Heights (1992)
as Ellen Dean
The Exception (2017)
as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
National Theatre Live: Phaedra (2023)
as Helen
Precious Bane (1989)
as Prue Sarn
Miss Julie (1987)
as Miss Julie
Velvet Goldmine (1998)
as Female Narrator (voice)
The Intended (2002)
as Sarah Morris
Albert Nobbs (2011)
as Hubert Page
Half Moon Street (1986)
as Van Arkady's Secretary
Cat Run (2011)
as Helen Bingham
I Dreamt I Woke Up (1991)
as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
Tideland (2005)
as Dell
Disclosure (2020)
as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
Weekends at Bellevue (2011)
as Diane Wallace
As You Like It (2006)
as Audrey
Into the Storm (2009)
as Clementine Churchill
Paint It Black (2016)
as Meredith
A Farewell to Ozark (2022)
as Self
Hannah Arendt (2012)
as Mary McCarthy
Carrington (1995)
as Vanessa Bell
Love, Marilyn (2013)
as Self
Angelica (2017)
as Anne Montague
The King Is Alive (2000)
as Liz
Waking the Dead (2000)
as Caroline Pierce
Island (2011)
as Phyllis
102 Boulevard Haussmann (1990)
as Céleste Albaret
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016)
as La Marquise de Merteuil
Tumbleweeds (1999)
as Mary Jo Walker
Songcatcher (2001)
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
The Black Velvet Gown (1991)
as Riah Millican
Don't Leave Me This Way (1993)
as Loretta Lawson
Daphne (2007)
as Gertrude Lawrence
A Masculine Ending (1992)
as Loretta Lawson
Yellowbacks (1990)
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
Hawks (1988)
as Hazel
The Making of 'Tideland' (2007)
as Self
Killer in a Small Town (2009)
as Self - Narrator(voice)
Saint-Ex (1996)
as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
Sweet Nothing (1990)
as Caroline
Glimpse (2022)
as Lucienne
Prince (1991)
as Adult Claudie