Janet Montgomery

Birthday: 29 October 1985, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK

Height: 168 cm

A native of Bournemouth in the UK, Janet Montgomery moved to London when she received a scholarship at a dance school. One of her first acting jobs was a guest star role on the critically-acclaimed UK teen drama series, Skins (2007), as Nicholas Hoult's love interest.Upon moving to Los Angeles, Montgomery was quickly cast in the Dark Castle film, The Hills Run Red (2009). In addition to guest-starring on FX's The League (2009), she recurred on the HBO series, Entourage (2004) as E's assistant and Drama's girlfriend. She was also a series regular on the Fox series, Human Target (2010), with Mark Valley and Jackie Earle Haley. More recently, Montgomery was the lead of CBS's Made in Jersey (2012).Montgomery played one of the dancers, opposite Natalie Portman, in Darren Aronofsky's Oscar-nominated psychological thriller, Black Swan (2010). She also starred in Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother (2011), opposite Paul Rudd and Elizabeth Banks.Other recent projects include Dancing on the Edge (2013), with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode, as well as Spies of Warsaw (2013), opposite David Tennant. She just completed shooting the lead of the independent film, If You See Her (2014), and is about to start shooting the female lead in Salem (2014), the first original series for WGN. Show less «

My background is more horror or thriller, and you can't get better than horror fans, as far as I'm c...Show more »

My background is more horror or thriller, and you can't get better than horror fans, as far as I'm concerned. Show less «

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - o...Show more »

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of Downton Abbey (2010) you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!' Show less «

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of ...Show more »

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder. Show less «

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different...Show more »

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are. Show less «

New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is...Show more »

New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don't speak with a New Jersey accent. Show less «

I've never done a period piece. That's something I'd be really interested in doing.

I come from a very working-class background.

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'C...Show more »

You have to be completely in the character, and that's so hard to do. That's why, when they call, 'Cut!,' you often feel yourself shift. Unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there's a switch that happens. Show less «

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being...Show more »

I'm not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being. Show less «

I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real.

I'd love to do like a modern day The Shining (1980) and play the Jack Nicholson role.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of ...Show more »

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character. Show less «

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm fa...Show more »

Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times. I'm far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. Show less «

I actually always try to not do a general American accent. I always try to give a region.

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