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Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer


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  • Tumbleweeds
  • Tumbleweeds review by from London, UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Gem 10 August 2004
    ...r on her journey is her daughter, fantastically played by the young actress. Janet McTeers performance is incredible and the whole film is superb from beginning to end. ...   Read customer review
  • The King Is Alive
  • The King Is Alive review by A customer from Surrey
    Rated - 3.0 stars The King Died 23 February 2005
    ... story of survival. Some manage better than others, with perdictable results. Janet McTeer offers up a good American accent. The film was shot using natural daylight, ...   Read customer review
  • Tideland
  • Tideland review by Halliwelll from Essex, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Alice in Wonderland meets Psycho 26 January 2007
    ...rs a talking squirrel, an eccentric taxidermist in a black beekeeper’s bonnet (Janet McTeer) and the brave sea captain and slayer of the monster shark (Brendan Fletcher). ...   Read customer review

Janet McTeer - filmography


  • The Island on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Natalie Press,  Colin Morgan,  Janet McTeer
    Director: Brek Taylor,  Elizabeth Mitchell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starring Colin Morgan (BBC’s Merlin); Natalie Press (My Summer of Love, 5 Women) and Academy Award nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) in a psychological drama based on an acclaimed novel about a young woman abandoned at birth who is determined to track down her birth mother..and kill her.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 198 members
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  • Psychoville - Season 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Amanda Abbington,  George Asprey,  Eileen Atkins
    Director: Matt Lipsey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the team behind cult classic The League of Gentlemen, this bizarre gothic comedy sees a chain of events triggered when a mysterious letter writer contacts five seemingly disparate characters with the chilling message: 'I know what you did'. An embittered hook-handed clown, a desperately ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,481 member
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  • Psychoville - Season 1- Blu-ray (2 discs) (2009)
    Starring: Reece Shearsmith,  Dawn French,  David Bamber
    Director: Matt Lipsey
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From the creators of cult classic television series THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMAN comes this surreal comedy that centres on a letter writer who contacts five seemingly disparate characters' misguided wife, a hook-handed entertainer, a dwarf with telekinetic powers, a murder-fixated manchild and a blind ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 966 members
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  • Sense and Sensibility on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Jean Marsh,  Janet McTeer,  David Morrissey
    Director: John Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    From acclaimed writer Andrew Davies comes this enchanting new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about love and marriage. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 1,711 member
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  • Daphne on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Geraldine Somerville,  Elizabeth McGovern,  Janet McTeer
    Director: Clare Beavan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The story is set just after the second world war and is based on personal letters and biographies of Daphne which highlight her obsession for a glamorous Heiress called Ellen. It shows her inner turmoil and struggle with her sexuality that influenced her writing.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 432 members
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  • Five Days (2 discs) on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hugh Bonneville,  David Oyelowo,  Sarah Smart
    Director: Otto Bathurst,  Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The story begins one hot summers day when Leanne Wellings is taking her two young children to visit her grandfather. She stops to buy flowers at a motorway lay-by but then inexplicably vanishes -- leaving her two small children waiting for her in her car -- lost and far from home. Her two small ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,537 members
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  • Tideland on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Janet McTeer,  Jeff Bridges,  Jennifer Tilly
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on the novel by Mitch Cullin, TIDELAND follows the story of young Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland), the daughter of junkie parents Noah (Jeff Bridges), an aging rock-and-roller, and Queen Gunhilda (Jennifer Tilly), a mean-spirited chocoholic. After her mother overdoses, Jeliza-Rose and Noah move ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 7,182 members
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  • Songcatcher (2000)
    Starring: Janet McTeer,  Michael Davis,  Michael Goodwin
    Director: Maggie Greenwald
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Lily Penleric (McTeer), a respected musicologist who is once again passed over for a tenured position at her school. She leaves at the summer break to visit her sister, whilst here she maes an important discovery.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 9 members
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  • Tumbleweeds on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Michael J. Pollard,  Ashley Buccille,  Noah Emmerich
    Director: Gavin O'Connor
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mary Jo Walker (McTeer) is a Southern mother who hides her self-consciousness by overcompensating. She drinks, wears revealing outfits, and says things that other people would never even consider. Fleeing her latest abusive relationship, she and her daughter, twelve-year-old Ava (Brown), head out ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 267 members
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  • Waking The Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Billy Crudup,  Jennifer Connelly,  Molly Parker
    Director: Keith Gordon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Fielding Pierce (Billy Crudup) is a promising young congressional candidate who becomes obsessed with the idea that his dead lover, Sarah (Jennifer Connelly), is still alive. Because of her involvement with a group called Sanctuary that harbours Chilean dissidents, Sarah is presumably killed in a ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,155 member
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  • Wuthering Heights on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Ralph Fiennes,  Sinead O'Connor
    Director: Peter Kosminsky
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A sweeping, epic production of Emily Bronte's classic tale of star-crossed lovers Cathy (Juliette Binoche) and Heathcliff (Ralph Fiennes), whose passionate love and tragic separation plays out against the verdant Yorkshire moors. Whereas most film adaptations of WUTHERING HEIGHTS end with the death ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 3,873 members
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  • Portrait Of A Marriage on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Janet McTeer,  David Haig,  Cathryn Harrison
    Director: Stephen Whittaker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Set in 1918, Vita and Harold are a golden couple, who socialised in high society literary circles and who friends included Virginia Woolf and TS Elliot. Starring Janet McTeer (Songcather, The Govenor), David Haig (Keeping mum, Campion) and Cathryn Harrison (Original Sin, Wuthering Heights) This ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 926 members
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  • Catherine Cookson - Secrets And Lies (8 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Jack Davenport,  Juliet Aubrey,  Janet McTeer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels, Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 1,307 member
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Janet McTeer facts

5 most recent films

The Woman in Black - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Woman in Black - 3.5 stars
The Island - 2.5 stars
Psychoville - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
Psychoville - Season 1- Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Sense and Sensibility - 4.0 stars
Alan Bennett At The BBC - 4.0 stars
Psychoville - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
The Woman in Black - 3.5 stars
Psychoville - Season 1- Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Songcatcher - 3.0 stars
Into the Storm - 4.0 stars
The Governor - Series 1 - Complete - 5.0 stars
The Governor - Series 2 - Complete - 5.0 stars
The Island - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Morrissey - 7 times - show films
Dominic Cooper - 7 times - show films
Hattie Morahan - 7 times - show films
Charity Wakefield - 7 times - show films
Reece Shearsmith - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

John Alexander  - 6 times - show films
Matt Lipsey - 6 times - show films
Richard Eyre - 5 times - show films
Stephen Frears - 5 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 5 times - show films