Janet McTeer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1961-08-05 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

Janet McTeer

Biography

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 T...

Acting

2005

Tideland

as Dell

2009

Into the Storm

as Clementine Churchill

2001

Songcatcher

as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD

2000

Waking the Dead

as Caroline Pierce

2011

Island

as Phyllis

2012

The Woman in Black

as Mrs. Daily

1995

Carrington

as Vanessa Bell

1990

Yellowbacks

as Dr Juliet Horwitz

2006

1999

Tumbleweeds

as Mary Jo Walker

2011

Cat Run

as Helen Bingham

2013

2012

Hannah Arendt

as Mary McCarthy

1996

Saint-Ex

as Genevieve de Ville-Franche

1988

Hawks

as Hazel

1991

The Black Velvet Gown

as Riah Millican

2007

Daphne

as Gertrude Lawrence

2022

Glimpse

as Lucienne

2020

Disclosure

as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)

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Weekends at Bellevue

as Diane Wallace

2017

Angelica

as Anne Montague

1986

Half Moon Street

as Van Arkady's Secretary

1990

Sweet Nothing

as Caroline

1992

Wuthering Heights

as Ellen Dean

1991

Prince

as Adult Claudie

2014

Maleficent

as Narrator (voice)

2017

The Exception

as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz

1993

Don't Leave Me This Way

as Loretta Lawson

2016

Me Before You

as Camilla Traynor

1998

Velvet Goldmine

as Female Narrator (voice)

2011

Albert Nobbs

as Hubert Page

2016

Paint It Black

as Meredith

1992

A Masculine Ending

as Loretta Lawson

2016

Allegiant

as Edith Prior

1991

I Dreamt I Woke Up

as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist

1987

Miss Julie

as Miss Julie

2015

2002

The Intended

as Sarah Morris

1989

Precious Bane

as Prue Sarn

1990

102 Boulevard Haussmann

as Céleste Albaret

1993

Dead Romantic

as Madeleine Severn

2015

Insurgent

as Edith Prior

2022

The Menu

as Lillian

Production

2016

Paint It Black

as Executive Producer

2002

The Intended

as Writer

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