Janet Montgomery

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Janet Montgomery at WonderCon 2015

Janet Montgomery (born October 29, 1985 in Bournemouth , Dorset , England ) is a British actress who has lived and worked in the United States since 2009 .

life and career

Montgomery had her first television appearance in 1997 at the age of twelve, when she was seen with her brother on the British show Short Change . She continued her interest in acting and graduated from Stella Mann College for the Performing Arts in Bedford in 2006 . Montgomery had a television appearance two years later, in 2008, in a guest role in the second season of the series Skins . This was followed by two smaller roles in the television drama Dis / Connected and in the short film Flushed , before the actress moved to Los Angeles in spring 2009 to continue working there. That year she was in front of the camera for the two direct-to-DVD horror films The Hills Run Red - Screenplay of Death and Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead . She had other film roles in the vampire flick Dead Cert (2010) opposite Jason Flemyng and in the psychological thriller Black Swan (2010) as Madeline .

In 2010, the actress also got two major series roles. She can be seen in the seventh and eighth seasons of the dramedy Entourage in a supporting role as Jennie , secretary to Eric Murphy ( Kevin Connolly ). In the second season of the action series Human Target , she joined the team around Christopher Chance , played by Mark Valley, as a former Ames thief . However, on May 10, 2011, Fox announced that it would no longer produce a third season.

In 2012 Montgomery got the lead role as Martina Garretti in the US justice series Made in Jersey . After only two episodes broadcast, CBS announced the discontinuation of the series due to falling audience figures. By December 2012, six more episodes of the series were broadcast.

Writer and director Stephen Poliakoff booked Janet Montgomery for his five-part BBC series Dancing on the Edge based on a profile video she sent in via Skype . She played the photographer Sarah , the daughter of Russian immigrants in London , in the period costume drama of the 1930s .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2008: Skins - Closer (Skins) (TV series, episode 2x06)
  • 2008: Dis / Connected (TV movie)
  • 2008: Flushed (short film)
  • 2009: The Hills Run Red (The Hills Run Red)
  • 2009: Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead
  • 2009: Accused at 17
  • 2010: The Rapture
  • 2010: Dead Cert
  • 2010: Black Swan
  • 2010: The League (TV series, episode 2x01)
  • 2010–2011: Entourage (TV series, 10 episodes)
  • 2010–2011: Human Target (TV series, 11 episodes)
  • 2011: Everything Carries Me to You (short film)
  • 2011: Our Idiot Brother
  • 2011–2012: Merlin - The New Adventures ( Merlin , TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 2012: Made in Jersey (TV series, 8 episodes)
  • 2013: The Republic of Two
  • 2013: Dancing on the Edge (miniseries, 5 episodes)
  • 2013: The Spies of Warsaw ( Spies of Warsaw , mini-series, 3 episodes)
  • 2014: Black Mirror (TV series, episode 2x04)
  • 2014-2017: Salem (TV series, 36 episodes)
  • 2015: Salem - Witch War Special (TV show)
  • 2016: Happily Ever After
  • 2016: The Escorts  (Amateur Night)
  • 2016–2017: This Is Us ( This Is Us , TV series, 5 episodes)
  • 2017: So Close to the Stars (The Space Between Us)
  • 2017: Romans - Demons of the Past (Romans)
  • 2018: In a Relationship
  • 2018: The Romanoffs (TV series, episode 1x02)
  • since 2018: New Amsterdam (TV series)
  • 2019: Nighthawks
  • 2020: Think Like a Dog

Web links

Commons : Janet Montgomery  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stella Mann College - Our Graduates (English). Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  2. ↑ Stella Mann College - Graduates 2006 ( Memento from September 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Today's TV Addict Top 5: Questions with HUMAN TARGET Star Janet Montgomery on November 24, 2010 at theTVaddict.com
  4. ^ Robert Seidman: Fox Cancels 'Breaking In,' 'Human Target,' 'The Chicago Code,' 'Lie To Me' & 'Traffic Light' . TV by the Numbers . May 10, 2011. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ Manuel Weis: 1. Deprecation: It hits "Made in Jersey" from October 11, 2012 atquotemeter.de . Retrieved November 10, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Montgomery, Janet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bournemouth , Dorset , England , UK