
1961-08-05 ( 63 years old ) in 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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Movies
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025-05-21
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
2023-03-01
The Menu
2022-11-17
Glimpse
2022-05-05
A Farewell to Ozark
2022-04-29
Disclosure
2020-06-19
Angelica
2017-11-17
The Exception
2017-06-02
Paint It Black
2016-06-03
Me Before You
2016-06-01
Allegiant
2016-03-09
Fathers and Daughters
2015-10-01
Insurgent
2015-03-18
Maleficent
2014-05-28
Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30
Hannah Arendt
2012-09-11
The Woman in Black
2012-02-03
Albert Nobbs
2011-12-21
Island
2011-04-22
Cat Run
2011-04-01
Into the Storm
2009-05-31
Daphne
2007-06-30
The Making of 'Tideland'
2007-02-27
As You Like It
2006-09-01
Tideland
2005-09-09
The Intended
2002-06-06
Songcatcher
2001-03-01
The King Is Alive
2000-05-11
Waking the Dead
2000-03-24
Tumbleweeds
1999-11-24
Velvet Goldmine
1998-08-28
Saint-Ex
1996-11-17
Carrington
1995-05-25
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993-05-30
Dead Romantic
1993-02-14
Wuthering Heights
1992-10-16
A Masculine Ending
1992-04-12
I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991-11-16
Prince
1991-10-06
The Black Velvet Gown
1991-06-02
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990-11-09
Sweet Nothing
1990-09-23
Yellowbacks
1990-08-30
Precious Bane
1989-01-02
Hawks
1988-08-05
Miss Julie
1987-05-31
Half Moon Street
1986-08-13
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