Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE is an English actress. In 1997, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, the Olivier Award for Best Actress and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play for her role as Nora in A Doll's House. She also won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Mary Jo Walker in the 1999 film Tumbleweeds, and was nominated for the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 August 1961
watches persons performances
I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.
mother growing-up generations
Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.
space marketing tools
I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.
home garden lovely
I do mostly British projects, and for family reasons and life reasons Britain's my home, where I have a lovely garden.
believe thinking waiting
It's naive to think there is a woman in the world who isn't brought up to believe that they are waiting for their soul mate. You even see it in Disney.
fun tumbleweeds paid
I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
people focus want
I just want people to focus on the performance.
new-yorkers
New Yorkers are either the nicest or the rudest.
jobs drama coffee
But then I got a job selling coffee at the York Theatre, and when I met theatre people, something clicked. I felt comfortable with them; I felt like myself. I decided to go to drama school based just on that feeling. I had never done any acting.
people age calling
People are calling a lot, sending scripts my way. Yes, it's wonderful because, let's face it, there aren't many wonderful scripts for women over the age of 10.
order witness
The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
secret might film
You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.
couple children down-and
When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.
dream want actresses
When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.