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 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

MobLand

Agatha Christie's Marple

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Ozark

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Damages

Marvel's Jessica Jones

Screen Two

All Movies (50)

• Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic2026 · as Self
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning2025 · as Walters
• National Theatre Live: Phaedra2023 · as Helen
• The Menu2022 · as Lillian
• Glimpse2022 · as Lucienne
• A Farewell to Ozark2022 · as Self
• Disclosure2020 · as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
• Angelica2017 · as Anne Montague
• The Exception2017 · as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
• Paint It Black2016 · as Meredith
• Me Before You2016 · as Camilla Traynor
• Allegiant2016 · as Edith Prior
• National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses2016 · as La Marquise de Merteuil
• Fathers and Daughters2015 · as Carolyn
• Insurgent2015 · as Edith Prior
• Maleficent2014 · as Narrator (voice)
• Love, Marilyn2013 · as Self
• Hannah Arendt2012 · as Mary McCarthy
• The Woman in Black2012 · as Mrs. Daily
• Albert Nobbs2011 · as Hubert Page
• Island2011 · as Phyllis
• Cat Run2011 · as Helen Bingham
• Weekends at Bellevue2011 · as Diane Wallace
• Into the Storm2009 · as Clementine Churchill
• Daphne2007 · as Gertrude Lawrence
• The Making of 'Tideland'2007 · as Self
• As You Like It2006 · as Audrey
• Tideland2005 · as Dell
• The Intended2002 · as Sarah Morris
• Songcatcher2001 · as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
• The King Is Alive2000 · as Liz
• Waking the Dead2000 · as Caroline Pierce
• Tumbleweeds1999 · as Mary Jo Walker
• Velvet Goldmine1998 · as Female Narrator (voice)
• Saint-Ex1996 · as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
• Carrington1995 · as Vanessa Bell
• Don't Leave Me This Way1993 · as Loretta Lawson
• Dead Romantic1993 · as Madeleine Severn
• Wuthering Heights1992 · as Ellen Dean
• A Masculine Ending1992 · as Loretta Lawson
• I Dreamt I Woke Up1991 · as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
• Prince1991 · as Adult Claudie
• The Black Velvet Gown1991 · as Riah Millican
• 102 Boulevard Haussmann1990 · as Céleste Albaret
• Sweet Nothing1990 · as Caroline
• Yellowbacks1990 · as Dr Juliet Horwitz
• Precious Bane1989 · as Prue Sarn
• Hawks1988 · as Hazel
• Miss Julie1987 · as Miss Julie
• Half Moon Street1986 · as Van Arkady's Secretary

All TV Shows (30)

• Harry Potter2026 · as Minerva McGonagall
• Finding Harry: The Craft Behind The Magic2026 · as Herself
• The Artist2025 · as Marian Henry
• MobLand2025 · as Kat McAllister
• KAOS2024 · as Hera
• Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator2023 · as Narrator
• The Old Man2022 · as Marion
• Gangs of London2020 · as Isabel Vaughn
• Sorry for Your Loss2018 · as Amy
• Ozark2017 · as Helen Pierce
• Marvel's Jessica Jones2015 · as Alisa Jones
• Battle Creek2015 · as Commander Guziewicz
• The Honourable Woman2014 · as Julia Walsh
• The White Queen2013 · as Jacquetta of Luxembourg
• Parade's End2012 · as Mrs. Satterthwaite
• Psychoville2009 · as Cheryl
• Hunter2009 · as DS Amy Foster
• Sense and Sensibility2008 · as Mrs. Dashwood
• Damages2007 · as Kate Franklin
• Five Days2007 · as DS Amy Foster
• The Amazing Mrs Pritchard2006 · as Catherine Walker
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Anne Protheroe
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• The Governor1995 · as Helen Hewitt
• Portrait of a Marriage1990 · as Vita Sackville-West
• Screen One1989 · as Adult Claudie
• The Play on One1988 · as Dr Juliet Horwitz
• Screen Two1985 · as Céleste Albaret
• Screen Two1985 · as Madeleine Severn
• The Oscars1953 · as Self