Janet McTeer

May 17, 2009 (New York City)- Billy Elliott The Musical blew away the competition at the 54 th Annual Drama Desk Awards, winning 10 awards, including Best Musical, Best Director, Outstanding Featured Actor and Actress and Outstanding Music (Elton John). Shrek The Musical was a distant second with three awards, including one for Brian d’Arcy James, who took home the honors as Outstanding Actor in a Musical. Other big winners included Lynn Nottage, who took Best Play honors for Ruined, The Norman Conquests , which won for Outstanding Revival of a Play and Hair , which won for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. In ... Read Full Story

NEW YORK (AP) - Queen to Queen’s sofa. Your move. Janet McTeer and Harriet Walter bookend the couch in McTeer’s dressing room. The two British actresses are both nominated for best actress Tony Awards, and while they’re both pleased by the honor, neither likes the idea of competing. “It’s not nice. It’s no fun,” McTeer says. “But we would, both of us, absolutely adore if Phyllida got one, because she’s a genius.” She’s, of course, talking about Phyllida Lloyd, the director of the critically acclaimed Broadway drama “Mary Stuart.” Walter plays England’s Queen Elizabeth I and McTeer the title role of Mary, Queen of ... Read Full Story

NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Billy Elliot the Musical won 10 Drama Desk Awards, including the prize for outstanding musical, in a ceremony in New York. The 54th annual Drama Desk Awards presentation took place at the F.H. LaGuardia Concert Hall at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Sunday. Elliot won the honors for choreography, orchestrations, lighting design and sound design. Its director, Stephen Daldry, won the outstanding director of a musical award, Gregory Jbara the prize for featured actor in a musical, Haydn Gwynne the statuette for featured actress in a musical, Elton John the honor for outstanding music and Lee Hall the trophy for ... Read Full Story

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Janet McTeer is currently on-screen in Gavin O'Connor's Tumbleweeds, which earned the Filmmakers Trophy (for Dramatic Features) at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. ... Read Full Story