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Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress. She began her career training at the
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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
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, an
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, a
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and nominations for two
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s and a
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. 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 ''
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'' 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
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nominations, one for Best Actress for ''
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'' in 1999, and the other for Best Supporting Actress for '' Albert Nobbs'' in 2011. Other roles include ''
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'' (1992), '' Carrington'' (1995), '' Velvet Goldmine'' (1998), '' Songcatcher'' (2000), ''
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'' (2006), '' The Divergent Series'' (2015–2016), and '' The Menu'' (2022). On television, she starred in the title role of
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's ''The Governor'' (1995–1996), and received a
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nomination for her portrayal of Clementine Churchill in the
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film '' Into the Storm'' (2009). She is also known for her roles in ''
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'' (2012), '' The White Queen'' (2013), '' The Honourable Woman'' (2014), ''
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'' (2018), '' Sorry for Your Loss'' (2018–2019), and '' Ozark'' (2018–2020).


Early life and education

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in
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,
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, and spent her childhood in
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. She attended the now defunct Queen Anne Grammar School for Girls, and worked at the Old Starre Inn, at
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and at the city's Theatre Royal. She performed locally with the Rowntree Players at Joseph Rowntree Theatre, then trained at the
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(RADA).


Career

McTeer began a successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating from RADA.


Early roles

McTeer's television work includes the
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production ''
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'', an adaptation of
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's biography of the same name in which she played
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, and the popular ITV series '' The Governor'' written by
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. She made her screen debut in '' Half Moon Street'', a 1986 film based on a novel by
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. In 1991, she appeared in Catherine Cookson's ''The Black Velvet Gown'', with
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and Geraldine Somerville; this won the
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award for best drama. She appeared in the 1992 film version of ''
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'' (co-starring
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and
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) and the 1995 film '' Carrington'' (which starred
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and
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) as
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. In 1996, McTeer garnered critical acclaim – and both the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award – for her performance as Nora Helmer in a West End production of
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's ''
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''. The following year, the production transferred to Broadway, and McTeer received a
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, a Theatre World Award, and the
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for Best Actress in a Play. During the show's run, McTeer was interviewed by
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on his
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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. ''
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'' proved to be a 1999
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favourite, and McTeer's performance won her a
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as Best Actress and
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and
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nominations in the same category.


2000s

McTeer's screen credits include '' Songcatcher'' (with
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), '' Waking the Dead'' (with Billy Crudup and
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), the dogme film '' The King Is Alive'' (with
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), '' The Intended'' (with Brenda Fricker and
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), and '' Tideland'', written and directed by
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. She also starred in the BBC dramatisation of Mary Webb's '' Precious Bane in 1989''. She has appeared in such British television serials as '' The Amazing Mrs Pritchard'', ''
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'', and Agatha Christie's ''Marple'' (episode: " The Murder at the Vicarage"). McTeer played
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in '' Mary Stuart'', a play by
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in a new version by Peter Oswald, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. She acted opposite Harriet Walter as
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in London's West End in 2005, a role she reprised in the 2009 Broadway transfer. 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
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,
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and Ralph Fiennes, at the
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. She reprised her role on Broadway opposite
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from March to June 2010. In 2009, she portrayed Clementine Churchill in the
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feature '' Into the Storm'' about Sir
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's years as Britain's leader during World War II.


2010s

In 2011, McTeer starred alongside
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in '' Albert Nobbs'' and with
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and
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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
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's film ''Hannah Arendt''. In 2013 McTeer was cast as
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, the mother of the title character in ''The White Queen'', a British television drama series based on
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'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
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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 ''
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'', directed again by Phyllida Lloyd. She co-starred alongside Liev Schreiber in ''
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'' 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
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and
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production ''
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''. In September 2018, she took on the role of
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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 2018-2020 McTeer portrayed cartel attorney Helen Pierce on the Netflix crime drama '' Ozark''.


2020s

In early 2023, McTeer appeared at London's National Theatre in a new play ''Phaedra''. Director playwright
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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
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, and a superb lead performance from McTeer, the play received mixed reviews. The ''
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'' called it "A must-see show. A high-spec, richly-textured chamber extravaganza", while ''
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'' wrote "Even McTeer's strong performance cannot save a tonally unsure play". McTeer garnered a Best Actress nomination at the
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, losing to
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for ''
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''. She will also be starring in '' Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'', due for debut in 2025. McTeer will portray Minerva McGonagall in the HBO television adaptation of the ''
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'' series.


Honours

McTeer was appointed an
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(OBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.


Personal life

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


Acting credits


Film


Television


Theatre


Video games


Accolades


Film


Theatre


See also

* List of Academy Award winners and nominees from Great Britain * List of actors with Academy Award nominations * List of actors with more than one Academy Award nomination in the acting categories * List of Golden Globe winners


References


External links

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1999 interview re: ''Tumbleweeds''

1999 Salon interview re: ''Tumbleweeds''



''God of Carnage'' review


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