Janet McTeer
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Janet McTeer (born 5 August 1961) is an English actress.
Nora in A Doll's House (1996-1997), she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
She also received a Golden Globe Award for her role as Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Hubert Page in Albert Nobbs.
In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was named OBE. McTeer made her professional debut in 1984 and was nominated for the 1986 Olivier Award for Best Newcomer for The Grace of Mary Traverse.
Yelena in Uncle Vanya (London), Veronique in Carnage (London & New York), and Mary Stuart's title role (London & New York), which earned her her second Drama Desk Award in 2009.
She appeared on television in The Governor's role (1995–1996), and received an Emmy Award nomination for Into the Storm (2009) and a Golden Globe nomination for The White Queen (2013). Glenn Close appeared alongside her in the final season of the drama series Damages (2012).
Half Moon Street (1986), Hawks (1988), Carrington (1995), When You Like It (2006), The Woman in Black (2012), Maleficent (2014), and Me Before You (2016).
Early life
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 spent time at the Old Starre Inn, in York Minster, and at the city's Theatre Royal. She appeared with the Rowntree Players locally and then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, launching a fruitful theatre career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating.
Personal life
Since 2010, McTeer has been married to poet and fashion consultant Joseph Coleman. They live in Maine.
Career
McTeer's television appearances include the BBC film Portrait of a Marriage, an adaptation of Nigel Nicolson's biography of the same name in which she appeared on Vita Sackville-West, and Lynda La Plante's popular ITV series The Governor. She made her screen debut in Half Moon Street, a 1986 film based on a Paul Theroux novel. With Bob Peck and Geraldine Somerville, she appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown in 1991; she received the International Emmy award for best drama. Vanessa Bell appeared in the 1992 film Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1995 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce) as Vanessa Bell.
McTeer's performance in a West End production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House earned critical acclaim in 1996 – as well as the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award. McTeer's award, a Theatre World Award, and the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play were both given the following year.
McTeer appeared on Charlie Rose' PBS talk show, where she was spotted by American filmmaker Gavin O'Connor, who, at the time, was filming on a screenplay about a single mother's cross-country wanderings with her pre-teen daughter. He was determined that she would appear in the film. He made the film himself when prospective backers balked at her relative anonymity in the United States. Tumbleweeds was a 1999 Sundance Film Festival favorite, and McTeer's appearance earned her a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actor Guild nomination in the same category.
McTeer's film credits include Songcatcher (with Aidan Quinn), Waking the Dead (with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly), The Intended (with Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis), and Tideland, written and directed by Terry Gilliam. She appeared in the dramatization of Mary Webb's Precious Bane. She has appeared in such British television series as The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Hunter, and Agatha Christie's Marple (episode: "The Murder at the Vicarage").
In Mary Stuart, a play by Friedrich Schiller directed by Phyllida Lloyd, McTeer played Mary, Queen of Scots. In London's West End in 2005, she played opposite Harriet Walter as Queen Elizabeth I, a role she reprised in 2009. McTeer received a Tony Award for her role in Mary Stuart and was named in a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
Tamsin Greig, Ken Stott, and Ralph Fiennes appeared in God of Carnage in the West End in 2008, when she appeared at the Gield Theatre for the first time. She recalled her appearance on Broadway opposite Jeff Daniels from March to June 2010.
In 2009, she played Clementine Churchill in the HBO series Into the Storm about Sir Winston Churchill's tenure as Britain's prime minister during World War II.
McTeer appeared in Albert Nobbs and with Daniel Radcliffe and Ciarán Hinds in The Woman in Black in 2011, based on the 1983 book of the same name. McTeer's role as Hubert Page in Albert Nobbs earned McTeer critical acclaim and several award nominations, including one for Best Supporting Actress, which was nominated for the Academy Award in the United States. McTeer was announced in November 2011 that she had appeared on 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. In Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt, she played American novelist Mary McCarthy.
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 appearances were lauded, with Sam Wollaston of The Guardian boasting that she stole the show. McTeer was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her role as Jacquetta in December 2013.
McTeer had joined the cast of The Honourable Woman, a BBC spy-thriller miniseries starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, on July 29th. McTeer starred as Commander Kim Guziewicz in CBS comedy-drama Battle Creek in 2015, and filmed an Experiment based on The Kaiser's Last Kiss (in which she would play Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz) for a 2016 release.
In the Park all-female production of The Taming of the Shrew directed again by Phyllida Lloyd, McTeer played Petruchio in the New York Public Theater Shakespeare in 2016. In Les Liaisons Dangereuses on Broadway, she co-starred with Liev Schreiber, with McTeer playing Marquise de Merteuil. The performance spanned from October 2016 to January 2017.
Alisa Jones appeared in the Marvel Television and Netflix series Jessica Jones' Alisa Jones in 2018. Sarah Bernhardt/Hamlet was her role in Theresa Rebeck's Broadway play Bernhardt/Hamlet in September 2018. She was nominated for the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play in 2019.
On the Netflix crime drama Ozark, McTeer played cartel prosecutor Helen Pierce.