Janet McTeer
Also Known As: 珍娜·麥提爾, جنت مکتیر
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 an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services in 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 A Doll's House performance 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). She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for portraying 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article about Janet McTeer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Birthday: August 05, 1961
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Gender: Female
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The King Is Alive
Overview: 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 the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-11
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Tideland
Overview: Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-09
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Into the Storm
Overview: 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 war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-31
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Songcatcher
Overview: After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Waking the Dead
Overview: A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Genres: Mystery Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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Island
Overview: 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. Based on the acclaimed novel by Jane Rogers.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-22
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The Woman in Black
Overview: 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 works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-03
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Carrington
Overview: Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-25
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Yellowbacks
Overview: Britain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-30
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As You Like It
Overview: Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-01
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Tumbleweeds
Overview: 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 Ava is tiring of. This time, they are helped on their move to San Diego by trucker Jack Ranson. While Ava settles in, getting a leading part in the school play, Jack starts dating Mary Jo but soon reveals himself to be controlling and aggressive. Mary Jo prepares to flee again, angering Ava.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-24
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Cat Run
Overview: When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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National Theatre Live: Phaedra
Overview: 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 shakes the foundations of her house and the beliefs that have underpinned her power. As buried lust and loneliness surge to the surface, her actions threaten to destroy everything she has built.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-01
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Love, Marilyn
Overview: Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses will embody the legend at various stages in her life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-30
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Hannah Arendt
Overview: 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’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-09-11
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Saint-Ex
Overview: Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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Hawks
Overview: 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 escape for one last wild time.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-05
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The Black Velvet Gown
Overview: 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 Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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Daphne
Overview: 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 Frederick 'Boy' Browning, and her largely unrequited infatuations with American publishing tycoon's wife Ellen Doubleday and the actress Gertrude Lawrence.
Genres: Romance TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-30
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Glimpse
Overview: 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 person, in fact. And someone else is watching them watch. A sorrowful and comedic examination of our fall into the surveillance culture.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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A Farewell to Ozark
Overview: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and other cast members open up about the show's characters and creators, plus what they'll miss most.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Overview: After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from his past named Gabriel is also on the trail.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-05-21
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Weekends at Bellevue
Overview: The unaired movie that centers on Ellie, the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Angelica
Overview: A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-17
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Half Moon Street
Overview: 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 moonlighting at the Jasmine Escort Service, where she has more control over men and money than she does at the office. On one of her 'dates', Lauren meets the politician Lord Bulbeck who is trying to mediate a peace accord between the Arabs and Israelis. Bulbeck falls in love with his escort, and unwittingly, Lauren becomes a pawn in some very dirty politics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-13
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Sweet Nothing
Overview: A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-23
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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Prince
Overview: Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog Prince
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-06
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Maleficent
Overview: 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 threatens the harmony of the land. She rises to be the land's fiercest protector, but she ultimately suffers a ruthless betrayal – an act that begins to turn her heart into stone. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces an epic battle with the invading King's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom – and to Maleficent's true happiness as well.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-28
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The Exception
Overview: 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, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-02
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National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Overview: Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Don't Leave Me This Way
Overview: 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 notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-30
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Me Before You
Overview: 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 life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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Velvet Goldmine
Overview: Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Albert Nobbs
Overview: 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 butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-21
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Paint It Black
Overview: A young woman attempts to deal with the death of her boyfriend while continuously confronted by his mentally unstable mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-03
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A Masculine Ending
Overview: 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 sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-12
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Allegiant
Overview: 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 Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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I Dreamt I Woke Up
Overview: Film about the influences in director John Boorman's life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains surrounding his home in Ireland.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-16
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Miss Julie
Overview: Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-31
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Fathers and Daughters
Overview: A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-01
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The Intended
Overview: 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 her ill-meaning family.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-06
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Precious Bane
Overview: 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 man who may see her differently.
Genres: Romance TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-02
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102 Boulevard Haussmann
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-09
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Dead Romantic
Overview: 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 stalked by Paul, a student. Is he the serial killer on the loose in London and who will be his next victim? The tension mounts in this murder mystery with a real twist in its tail.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-14
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The Making of 'Tideland'
Overview: Behind the scenes of Tideland (2005)
Genres: Documentary Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-27
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Insurgent
Overview: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-18
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The Menu
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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