Janet McTeer, OBE (born 5 August 1961) is a British actress.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Europe, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating.
McTeer's television work includes the BBC production of Nigel Nicolson's book Portrait of a Marriage in which she played Vita Sackville-West and the popular ITV series The Governor wri...
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Janet McTeer, OBE (born 5 August 1961) is a British actress.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, Europe, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating.
McTeer's television work includes the BBC production of Nigel Nicolson's book Portrait of a Marriage 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, and appeared in the 1992 film version of Wuthering Heights (co-starring Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes) and the 1992 film Carrington (which starred Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce).
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. The following year, the production...
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