Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer OBE (born 5 August 1961[1][2][3]) is an English actress. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in A Doll's House (1996–1997). She also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress 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 the 2011 film Albert Nobbs.
Janet McTeer | |
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 McTeer at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 | |
| Born | 5 August 1961[1] |
| Alma mater | Royal Academy of Dramatic Art |
| Years active | 1985–present |
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. Her other theatre roles include Yelena in Uncle Vanya (London), Veronique in God of Carnage (London & New York), and the title role in Mary Stuart (London & New York), which won her a second Drama Desk Award in 2009. On television, she starred in the title role of Lynda La Plante's The Governor (1995–1996), and received an Emmy Award nomination for Into the Storm (2009) and a Golden Globe nomination for The White Queen (2013).
She also appeared opposite Glenn Close in the final season of the drama series Damages (2012). Her other film roles include Half Moon Street (1986), Hawks (1988), Wuthering Heights (1992), Carrington (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Songcatcher (2000), The Intended (2002), As You Like It (2006), Tideland (2005), Cat Run (2011), The Woman in Black (2012), Maleficent (2014), The Divergent Series (2015–2016), and Me Before You (2016).
Early life
McTeer was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the daughter of Jean (née Morris) and Alan McTeer, and spent her childhood in York.[4] 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.[5] 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.[2]
Career
McTeer's television work includes the BBC production Portrait of a Marriage, an adaptation of Nigel Nicolson's biography of the same name in which she played Vita Sackville-West, and the popular ITV series The Governor written by Lynda La Plante. She made her screen debut in Half Moon Street, a 1986 film based on a novel by Paul Theroux. In 1991, she appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Black Velvet Gown, with Bob Peck and Geraldine Somerville; this won the International Emmy award for best drama. She appeared in the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1995 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce) as Vanessa Bell.
In 1996, McTeer garnered critical acclaim – and both the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award and Critics' Circle Theatre Award – for her performance as Nora in a West End production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.[2] The following year, the production transferred to Broadway, and McTeer received a Tony Award, a Theatre World Award, and the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8] She has appeared in such British television serials as The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, Hunter,[2] and Agatha Christie's Marple (episode: "The Murder at the Vicarage").[8]
McTeer played Mary, Queen of Scots in Mary Stuart, a play by Friedrich Schiller in a new version by Peter Oswald, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. She acted opposite Harriet Walter as Queen Elizabeth I in London's West End in 2005, a role she reprised in the 2009 Broadway transfer.[9] McTeer received a Tony Award nomination for her role in Mary Stuart, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play.
2008–present
In 2008, she starred in God of Carnage in the West End alongside Tamsin Greig, Ken Stott and Ralph Fiennes, at the Gielgud Theatre.[10] She reprised her role on Broadway opposite Jeff Daniels from March to June 2010.[11]
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.[12]
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.[13] 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.[14] She played American novelist Mary McCarthy in Margarethe von Trotta's film Hannah Arendt.[15]
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.[16] Her performance was applauded, with Sam Wollaston of The Guardian suggesting she stole the show.[17] In December 2013, McTeer was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Jacquetta.[18]
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.[19] In 2015, McTeer starred as Commander Kim Guziewicz in CBS comedy-drama Battle Creek, and filmed Exception based on The Kaiser's Last Kiss[20] (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.[21]
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.[22] She was nominated for the 2019 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play.[23]
Recently, McTeer portrayed Helen Pierce on the Netflix crime drama Ozark.[24]
Honours
McTeer was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.[25]
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | 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 | The Play on One | 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 | The Black Velvet Gown | Riah Millican | Television film |
| 1992 | Dead Romantic | Madeleine Severn | Television film |
| 1992 | A Masculine Ending | 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 Nominated—Golden Nymph Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series |
| 2007 | Five Days | DS Amy Foster | 4 episodes Nominated—Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor – Female |
| 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 Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or 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 Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or Television Film |
| 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 (season 2) Main role (season 3) Pending—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Pending—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series |
| 2018–2019 | Sorry for Your Loss | Amy Shaw | Main role; 11 episodes |
Video games
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Populous: The Beginning | Additional voices (voice) |
References
- "Ms Janet McTeer, OBE" Archived 10 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Derbrett's People of Today. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- Whiting, Kate (19 January 2009). "Janet McTeer: A tall order's no trouble". Chester Chronicle. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
Janet was born in 1961 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and started her career in acting on stage at the Royal Exchange Theatre.
- Births, Marriages, & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005; at ancestry.com
- "Person:janet-mcteer – Yahoo Movies UK". Archived from the original on 15 November 2016.
- York Press 26 January 2012
- League, The Broadway. "Janet McTeer – Broadway Cast & Staff – IBDB".
- Essex, Andrew (17 December 1999). "Dixie Chick". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- "Janet McTeer (credits and biography)". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- Jones, Kenneth. "London's Mary Stuart, With Walter and Tony Winner McTeer, Heading to Broadway in 2009", Playbill, 14 July 2008.
- De Jongh, Nicholas. "Carnage in the dark does not dim the acting", London Evening Standard, 26 March 2008.
- Gans, Andrew (26 April 2010). "God of Carnage to Close in June". Playbill. Archived from the original on 3 April 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
- "HBO: Into the Storm: Home".
- "News – Rutland & Stamford Mercury".
- "Janet McTeer to appear on Damages"
- "Janet McTeer joins cast of von Trotta's Hannah Arendt".
- "The White Queen: Philippa Gregory on resurrecting history". 12 June 2013.
- Sam Wollaston, "The White Queen; Agatha Christie's Marple – TV review", The Guardian, 17 June 2013
- Rosen, Christopher (12 December 2013). "The Golden Globe Nominations Are Here!". HuffPost.
- "BBC – Stellar casting announced for Hugo Blick's The Honourable Woman on BBC Two – Media Centre".
- "The Kaiser's Last Kiss". Internet Movie Database. 1 January 2000.
- https://variety.com/2016/legit/news/leiv-schreiber-broadway-les-liaisons-dangereuses-1201755522/
- Bernhardt/Hamlet ibdb.com, retrieved April 30, 2019
- McPhee, Ryan. "2019 Tony Award Nominations: 'Hadestown' and 'Ain't Too Proud' Lead the Pack Playbill, April 30, 2019
- Giliberti, Luca (11 July 2019). "4 reasons why 'Ozark' star Janet McTeer is an Emmy dark horse in Best Drama Supporting Actress". Goldderby. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
- "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 11.
External links
- Janet McTeer at IMDb
- Janet McTeer at the Internet Broadway Database
- 1999 interview re: Tumbleweeds
- 1999 Salon interview re: Tumbleweeds
- 2007 Guardian interview
- God of Carnage review
- Red Carpet Interview on Ms. Fabulous
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