Biography
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 servi...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
as Walters
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe —...
National Theatre Live: Phaedra
2023
as Helen
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...
The Menu
2022
as Lillian
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.
Glimpse
2022
as Lucienne
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...
A Farewell to Ozark
2022
as Self
Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
Disclosure
2020
as Hubert Page / Self (archive footage)
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have...
Angelica
2017
as Anne Montague
A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
The Exception
2017
as Princess Hermine 'Hermo' Reuss of Greiz
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...
Paint It Black
2016
as Meredith
A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his mentally unstable mother.
Paint It Black
2016
Executive Producer
A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his mentally unstable mother.
Me Before You
2016
as Camilla Traynor
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his ...
Allegiant
2016
as Edith Prior
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 ...
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2016
as La Marquise de Merteuil
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont...
Fathers and Daughters
2015
as Carolyn
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...
Insurgent
2015
as Edith Prior
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
Maleficent
2014
as Narrator (voice)
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...
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ...
Hannah Arendt
2012
as Mary McCarthy
HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann...
The Woman in Black
2012
as Mrs. Daily
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 w...
Albert Nobbs
2011
as Hubert Page
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...
Island
2011
as Phyllis
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...
Cat Run
2011
as Helen Bingham
When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors ...
Into the Storm
2009
as Clementine Churchill
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the w...
Daphne
2007
as Gertrude Lawrence
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 ...
The Making of 'Tideland'
2007
as Self
Behind the scenes of Tideland (2005)
As You Like It
2006
as Audrey
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out ag...
Tideland
2005
as Dell
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...
The Intended
2002
as Sarah Morris
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 ...
The Intended
2002
Writer
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 ...
Songcatcher
2001
as Professor Lily Penleric, PhD
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who...
The King Is Alive
2000
as Liz
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...
Waking the Dead
2000
as Caroline Pierce
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Tumbleweeds
1999
as Mary Jo Walker
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 ...
Velvet Goldmine
1998
as Female Narrator (voice)
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncov...
Saint-Ex
1996
as Genevieve de Ville-Franche
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Carrington
1995
as Vanessa Bell
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...
Don't Leave Me This Way
1993
as Loretta Lawson
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 ...
Dead Romantic
1993
as Madeleine Severn
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...
Wuthering Heights
1992
as Ellen Dean
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his...
A Masculine Ending
1992
as Loretta Lawson
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...
I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991
as Mysterious Woman/Lady of the Lake/Journalist
Film about the influences in director John Boorman's life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains surround...
Prince
1991
as Adult Claudie
Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog Prince
The Black Velvet Gown
1991
as Riah Millican
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...
102 Boulevard Haussmann
1990
as Céleste Albaret
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.
Sweet Nothing
1990
as Caroline
A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.
Yellowbacks
1990
as Dr Juliet Horwitz
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...
Precious Bane
1989
as Prue Sarn
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 ...
Hawks
1988
as Hazel
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...
Miss Julie
1987
as Miss Julie
Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet.
Half Moon Street
1986
as Van Arkady's Secretary
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...
Weekends at Bellevue
N/A
as Diane Wallace
The unaired movie that centers on Ellie, the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit.