Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer

Actor (b. 1961)
14
Movies
73.6%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Janet McTeer’s films higher than 68% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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Frequent Collaborators

Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2)Emilia Clarke (1)Sam Claflin (1)Charles Dance (1)Brendan Coyle (1)
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The ThumbScore for Janet McTeer (73.6%) is the average audience approval rating across 14 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Janet's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

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 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 in Tumbleweeds in 1999 and the other for Best Supporting Actress in 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).

Born 1961-08-05 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK.

On ThumbScore, Janet McTeer appears in 14 films with an average audience score of 73.6%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Janet McTeer movie, ranked by audience score

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025
👍 84%
Me Before You
Me Before You
2016
👍 83%
The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black
2012
👍 82%
Velvet Goldmine
Velvet Goldmine
1998
👍 81%
The Menu
The Menu
2022
👍 78%
Fathers and Daughters
Fathers and Daughters
2015
👍 77%
Albert Nobbs
Albert Nobbs
2011
👍 77%
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
1992
👍 73%
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
2012
👍 73%
The Exception
The Exception
2017
👍 69%
Tideland
Tideland
2005
👍 66%
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
Finding Harry: The Craft Behind the Magic
2026
👍 65%
Waking the Dead
Waking the Dead
2000
👍 64%
As You Like It
As You Like It
2006
👍 58%