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Janet McTeer
Born: 5th Aug 1961 Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 79
Film: 50 (63%)
Television: 29 (37%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Science Fiction, War & Politics, History, Music, War, Talk
Filmography
Dec 2026 (first aired)
There is nothing special about Harry Potter - at least that's what his Aunt Petunia always says. On his 11th birthday, a letter of admittance to Hogwa ... view
Character:
Minerva McGonagall (1 ep.)
2026
Featuring interviews from members of the casting, production design, costume design, and creature effects teams, follow the behind-the-scenes journey ... view
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Self
Apr 2026 (first aired)
This exclusive special offers an inside look at the epic scale and meticulous care behind HBO's new Harry Potter series-told through the lens of the a ... view
Character:
Herself (1 ep.)
Nov 2025 (first aired)
In the Gilded Age, an ensemble of the era’s celebrities including Thomas Edison, Edgar Degas and Evelyn Nesbit meet at the home of an eccentric and ... view
Character:
Marian Henry (6 ep.)
2025
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe ... view
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Walters
Mar 2025 (first aired)
Two mob families clash in a war that threatens to topple empires and lives. ... view
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Kat McAllister (4 ep.)
Aug 2024 (first aired)
As discord reigns on Mount Olympus and almighty Zeus spirals into paranoia, three mortals are destined to reshape the future of humankind. ... view
Character:
Hera (8 ep.)
Nov 2023 (first aired)
He came. He saw. He conquered. The tale of an ambitious power-grab that turned to tyranny. How Julius Caesar dismantled five centuries of ancient Roma ... view
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Narrator (3 ep.)
2023
After years of fierce focus on her political career, a politician turns her attention to her personal life. The reappearance of a figure from her past ... view
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Helen
2022
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises. ... view
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Lillian
Jun 2022 (first aired)
Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learn ... view
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Marion (4 ep.)
2022
Three people are up for the same job. Their lives are turning inside out under the pressure. And someone is watching the whole thing. More than one pe ... view
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Lucienne
2022
Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most. ... view
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Self
2020
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have ... view
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Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
Apr 2020 (first aired)
When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between ... view
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Isabel Vaughn (1 ep.)
Sep 2018 (first aired)
The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw’s life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about h ... view
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Amy (20 ep.)
2017
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child. ... view
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Anne Montague
Jul 2017 (first aired)
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss. ... view
Character:
Helen Pierce (17 ep.)
2017
Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion ... view
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Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
2016
The death of Michael leaves behind the two women he loved, his girlfriend and his mother, both of whom blame each other for his suicide. Joined by the ... view
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Meredith
2016
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young b ... view
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Camilla Traynor
2016
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the ... view
Character:
Edith Prior
2016
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmon ... view
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La Marquise de Merteuil
Nov 2015 (first aired)
After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled int ... view
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Alisa Jones (13 ep.)
2015
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to fo ... view
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Carolyn
2015
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart. ... view
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Edith Prior
Mar 2015 (first aired)
In this mismatched buddy cop dramedy, an amazingly handsome, happy-go-lucky FBI agent is paired with a local, hard scrabble Michigan homicide detectiv ... view
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Commander Guziewicz (13 ep.)
Jul 2014 (first aired)
Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and ... view
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Julia Walsh (8 ep.)
2014
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army th ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Jun 2013 (first aired)
Set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses, the series is the story of the women caught up in the protracted conflict for the throne of England ... view
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Jacquetta of Luxembourg (10 ep.)
2013
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ... view
Character:
Self
2012
A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in ... view
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Mary McCarthy
Aug 2012 (first aired)
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I an ... view
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Mrs. Satterthwaite (5 ep.)
2012
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he ... view
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Mrs. Daily
2011
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a ... view
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Hubert Page
2011
Deeply damaged by being abandoned as a child and using fantasy as her only satisfaction, Nikki decides to track down her birth mother and take revenge ... view
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Phyllis
2011
When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors ... view
Character:
Helen Bingham
2011
Centers on Ellie, the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit. ... view
Character:
Diane Wallace
Jun 2009 (first aired)
Five strangers receive blackmail notes from an anonymous source, leading them on a dark and surreal journey as their lives unravel, featuring bizarre ... view
Character:
Cheryl (2 ep.)
2009
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of t ... view
Character:
Clementine Churchill
Jan 2009 (first aired)
Hunter is a two-part BBC One police drama. Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer reprised their roles as the dysfunctional detective double-act following o ... view
Character:
DS Amy Foster (2 ep.)
Jan 2008 (first aired)
Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Dav ... view
Character:
Mrs. Dashwood (3 ep.)
Jul 2007 (first aired)
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kes ... view
Character:
Kate Franklin (9 ep.)
2007
Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband ... view
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Gertrude Lawrence
2007
Behind the scenes of Tideland (2005) ... view
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Self
Jan 2007 (first aired)
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation. ... view
Character:
DS Amy Foster (10 ep.)
Oct 2006 (first aired)
Supermarket manager Ros Pritchard decides to stand for election and her steady gains of support gives rise to thoughts of becoming Prime Minister. ... view
Character:
Catherine Walker (6 ep.)
2006
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out ag ... view
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Audrey
2005
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagina ... view
Character:
Dell
Dec 2004 (first aired)
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and rela ... view
Character:
Anne Protheroe (1 ep.)
Jan 2003 (first aired)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2002
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and ... view
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Sarah Morris
2001
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who ... view
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Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
2000
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th ... view
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Liz
2000
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge. ... view
Character:
Caroline Pierce
1999
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine ... view
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Mary Jo Walker
1998
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncov ... view
Character:
Female Narrator (voice)
Character:
Genevieve de Ville-Franche
1995
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by ... view
Character:
Vanessa Bell
May 1995 (first aired)
Maximum security prison Barfield has recently nearly been destroyed by a riot. Helen Hewitt, the first woman put in charge of the prison, is determine ... view
Character:
Helen Hewitt (12 ep.)
1993
British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta ... view
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Loretta Lawson
1993
Madeleine Severn is a teacher and a virgin in a small town searching for Mr. Right. She falls in love with Bernard, a fellow teacher but is being stal ... view
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Madeleine Severn
1992
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his ... view
Character:
Ellen Dean
1992
While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a ... view
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Loretta Lawson
1991
John Boorman reflects on the personal influences shaping his life and films in this short work, blending family, neighbors, and the Wicklow Mountains ... view
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Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
1991
Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog Prince ... view
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Adult Claudie
1991
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Mill ... view
Character:
Riah Millican
1990
In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman. ... view
Character:
Céleste Albaret
1990
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people. ... view
Character:
Caroline
Sep 1990 (first aired)
Melodrama detailing the real-life love affair between feminist writer Vita Sackville-West and novelist Violet Keppel against the backdrop of post-Worl ... view
Character:
Vita Sackville-West (4 ep.)
1990
Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question th ... view
Character:
Dr Juliet Horwitz
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Adult Claudie (1 ep.)
1989
In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a ... view
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Prue Sarn
1988
Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an ... view
Character:
Hazel
Jan 1988 (first aired)
A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels. ... view
Character:
Dr Juliet Horwitz (1 ep.)
1987
Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet. ... view
Character:
Miss Julie
1986
Dr. Lauren Slaughter, a research fellow at the Arab-Anglo Institute in London is utterly frustrated by her job. To supplement her income, she starts m ... view
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Van Arkady's Secretary
Character:
Céleste Albaret (1 ep.)
Madeleine Severn (1 ep.)
Mar 1953 (first aired)
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuett ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)