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 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 for Tumbleweeds in 1999 and the other for Best Supporting Actress for 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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Acted in
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
The Artist
2025
KAOS
2024
as Hera
KAOS
2024
as Héra
Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
2023
as Narrator
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
2023
as Helen
The Menu
2022
as Lillian
The Old Man
2022
as Marion
Glimpse
2022
as Lucienne
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
as Self
Disclosure
2020
as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
Sorry For Your Loss
2018
as Amy
Angelica
2017
as Anne Montague
Ozark
2017
as Helen Pierce
The Exception
2017
as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
Paint It Black
2016
as Meredith
Me Before You
2016
as Camilla Traynor
Allegiant
2016
as Edith Prior
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2016
as La Marquise de Merteuil
Marvel's Jessica Jones
2015
Marvel's Jessica Jones
2015
as Alisa Jones
Fathers and Daughters
2015
as Carolyn
Insurgent
2015
as Edith Prior
Battle Creek
2015
as Commander Guziewicz
The Honourable Woman
2014
as Julia Walsh
Maleficent
2014
as Narrator (voice)
The White Queen
2013
as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Hannah Arendt
2012
as Mary McCarthy
Parade's End
2012
as Mrs. Satterthwaite
The Woman in Black
2012
as Mrs. Daily
Albert Nobbs
2011
as Hubert Page
Island
2011
as Phyllis
Cat Run
2011
as Helen Bingham
Psychoville
2009
Into the Storm
2009
as Clementine Churchill
Hunter
2009
as DS Amy Foster
Sense and Sensibility
2008
as Mrs. Dashwood
Daphne
2007
as Gertrude Lawrence
The Making of 'Tideland'
2007
as Self
Five Days
2007
as DS Amy Foster
The Amazing Mrs Pritchard
2006
as Catherine Walker
As You Like It
2006
as Audrey
Tideland
2005
as Dell
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Anne Protheroe
The Intended
2002
as Sarah Morris
Songcatcher
2001
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
The King Is Alive
2000
as Liz
Waking the Dead
2000
as Caroline Pierce
Tumbleweeds
1999
as Mary Jo Walker
Velvet Goldmine
1998
as Female Narrator (voice)
Saint-Ex
1996
as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
Carrington
1995
as Vanessa Bell
The Governor
1995
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993
as Loretta Lawson
Dead Romantic
1993
as Madeleine Severn
Wuthering Heights
1992
as Ellen Dean
A Masculine Ending
1992
as Loretta Lawson
I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991
as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
Prince
1991
as Adult Claudie
The Black Velvet Gown
1991
as Riah Millican
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
as Céleste Albaret
Sweet Nothing
1990
as Caroline
Portrait of a Marriage
1990
as Vita Sackville-West
Yellowbacks
1990
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
Precious Bane
1989
as Prue Sarn
Hawks
1988
as Hazel
The Play on One
1988
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
Miss Julie
1987
as Miss Julie
Half Moon Street
1986
as Van Arkady's Secretary
The Oscars
1953
as Self
Weekends at Bellevue
as Diane Wallace