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