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English actress (born 1961)

Janet McTeer (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, a Olivier Award, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for two Academy Award and Primetime Emmy Award. In 2008 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to 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 performance in A Doll's House 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), and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of 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).

McTeer was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and spent her childhood in York. She attended the now defunct Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, and worked at the Old Starre Inn, at York Minster and at the city's Theatre Royal. She performed locally with the Rowntree Players at Joseph Rowntree Theatre, then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, beginning a successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating. During the show's run, McTeer was interviewed by Charlie Rose on his PBS talk show, where she was seen by American filmmaker Gavin O'Connor, who, at the time, was working on a screenplay about a single mother's cross country wanderings with her pre teenage daughter. He was determined that she star in the film. When prospective backers balked at her relative anonymity in the US, he produced the film himself. Tumbleweeds proved to be a 1999 Sundance Film Festival favourite, and McTeer's performance won her a Golden Globe as Best Actress and Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the same category.

McTeer's screen credits include Songcatcher (with Aidan Quinn), Waking the Dead (with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly), the dogme film The King Is Alive (with Jennifer Jason Leigh), The Intended (with Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis), and Tideland, written and directed by Terry Gilliam. She also starred in the dramatisation of Mary Webb's Precious Bane. She has appeared in such British television serials as The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Hunter, McTeer received a Tony Award nomination for her role in Mary Stuart, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. In 2008, she starred in God of Carnage in the West End alongside Tamsin Greig, Ken Stott and Ralph Fiennes, at the Gielgud Theatre. She reprised her role on Broadway opposite Jeff Daniels from March to June 2010. In 2009, she portrayed Clementine Churchill in the HBO feature Into the Storm about Sir Winston Churchill's years as Britain's leader during World War II.

In 2011, McTeer starred alongside Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs and with Daniel Radcliffe and Ciarán Hinds in The Woman in Black (based on the 1983 novel of the same name). Her role as Hubert Page in Albert Nobbs won McTeer critical acclaim and numerous award nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. It was announced in November 2011 that McTeer had joined the cast of Damages (in the character of Kate Franklin) for its fifth and final season, reuniting her with her Albert Nobbs co star Glenn Close. This was her first American television series. She played American novelist Mary McCarthy in Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt. In 2013 McTeer was cast as Jacquetta of Luxembourg, the mother of the title character in The White Queen, a British television drama series based on Philippa Gregory's best selling historical novel series The Cousins' War. Her performance was applauded, with Sam Wollaston of The Guardian suggesting she stole the show. In December 2013, McTeer was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Jacquetta. On 29 July 2013, it was announced that McTeer had joined the cast of The Honourable Woman, a BBC spy thriller miniseries starring Maggie Gyllenhaal. In 2015, McTeer starred as Commander Kim Guziewicz in CBS comedy drama Battle Creek, and filmed Exception based on The Kaiser's Last Kiss (in which she was due to portray Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz), set for a 2016 release. In 2016, McTeer played Petruchio in the New York Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park all female production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed again by Phyllida Lloyd. She co starred alongside Liev Schreiber in Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway, with McTeer cast as Marquise de Merteuil. The play ran from October 2016 to January 2017. In 2018, she played Alisa Jones in the Marvel Television and Netflix production Jessica Jones. In September 2018, she took on the role of Sarah Bernhardt in Theresa Rebeck's Broadway play Bernhardt/Hamlet. She was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.

In early 2023, McTeer appeared at London's National Theatre in a new play Phaedra. Director playwright Simon Stone turned the Greek myth of the woman falling in love with her stepson into a satire about London elitism and post Brexit Britain. Despite a strong cast that included French actor Assaad Bouab, Canadian screen star Mackenzie Davis, and a superb lead performance from McTeer, the play received mixed reviews. The Evening Standard called it "A must see show. A high spec, richly textured chamber extravaganza", while The Guardian says "Even McTeer's strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play". McTeer garnered a Best Actress nomination at the 2023 Olivier Awards, losing to Jodie Comer for Prima Facie.

McTeer was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.

McTeer has been married to poet and fashion consultant Joseph Coleman since 2010. They reside in Maine.

YearTitleRole Notes 1985 Juliet Bravo Esther Pearson Episode: "Flesh and Blood" 1986 Gems Stephanie Wilde 2 episodes 1987 Theatre Night Miss Julie Episode: "Miss Julie" 1988 Les Girls Susan 7 episodes 1989 Precious Bane Prue Sarn Television film 1990 Dr. Juliet Horowitz Episode: "Yellowbacks" 1990 Portrait of a Marriage Vita Sackville West 4 episodes 1990 Screen Two Celeste Episode: "102 Boulevard Haussmann" 1990–1991 Screen One Adult Claudie/Caroline 2 episodes 1991 Riah Millican Television film 1992 Dead Romantic Madeleine Severn Television film 1992 Loretta Lawson Television film 1993 Don't Leave Me This Way Loretta Lawson Television film 1994 Jackanory Reader Episode: "The Iron Woman" 1995–1996 The Governor Helen Hewitt 12 episodes 2004 Agatha Christie's Marple Anne Protheroe Episode: "Agatha Christie's Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage" 2006 The Amazing Mrs Pritchard Catherine Walker 6 episodes 2007 Five Days DS Amy Foster 4 episodes 2007 Daphne Gertrude Lawrence Television film 2008 Sense and Sensibility Mrs. Dashwood 3 episodes 2008 Masterpiece Theatre Mrs. Dashwood Episode: "Sense and Sensibility" 2009 Hunter DS Amy Foster 2 episodes 2009 Into the Storm Clementine Churchill Television film 2009 Psychoville Cheryl 2 episodes 2011 Weekends at Bellevue Diana Wallace Television film 2012 Parade's End Mrs. Satterthwaite 4 episodes 2012 Damages Kate Franklin 9 episodes 2013 The White Queen Jacquetta of Luxembourg 6 episodes 2014 The Honourable Woman Dame Julia Walsh 8 episodes 2015 Battle Creek Commander Kim Guziewicz Main cast, 13 episodes 2016 Marks and Spencer Mrs. Claus Advert 2018 Jessica Jones Alisa Jones 11 episodes 2018–2020 Ozark Helen Pierce Recurring role (seasons 2 & 3) 2018–2019 Sorry for Your Loss Amy Shaw Main role; 11 episodes

Year TitleRole Notes1996A Doll's House Nora Helmer Playhouse Theatre, London 1997 Belasco Theatre, Broadway2009 God of Carnage Veronica (replacement) Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway2009 Mary Stuart Mary Stuart Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway2016 Les Liaisons Dangereuses La Marquise de Merteuil Booth Theatre, Broadway2018 Bernhardt / Hamlet Sarah Bernhardt American Airlines Theatre, Broadway2023 Phaedra Helen National Theatre, London