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Janet McTeer (born May 8, 1961) is a British actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Although she graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts with hopes of a theatrical career, all of her early work was in British television. 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, with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes, and Carrington (1995) with Emma Thompson and Jonathan Pryce.
In 1996, McTeer garnered critical acclaim - and both the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award and The Critics Circle Award - for her performance as Nora in a West End production of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. The following year, the production transferred to Broadway, and she was honored with a Tony Award, Theatre World Award, and Drama Desk Award as Best Actress in a Play.
During the show's run, McTeer was interviewed by Charlie Rose on his PBS talk show, where she was seen by filmmaker Gavin O'Connor, who was working on a screenplay about a single mother's cross-country wanderings with her pre-teen daughter. Enamored with the actress, he was determined she should star in the film, and when prospective backers balked at her relative anonymity in the States, he produced the movie himself. Tumbleweeds proved to be a 1999 Sundance Film Festival favorite, and McTeer's performance won her a Golden Globe as Best Actress and Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild nominations in the same category.
McTeer's screen credits include Songcatcher with Aidan Quinn, Waking the Dead with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly, The King is Alive with Jennifer Jason Leigh, and The Intended with Brenda Fricker and Olympia Dukakis.
She is currently appearing in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard.
See also
- List of famous tall women
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