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She's earned two nominations, the latest for "Albert Nobbs." Like Glenn Close , she plays a woman who's passing herself off as a man in 19th-century Dublin.

Janet McTeer on Her Oscar Nomination, Playing 'Bonkers' in The Woman in Black , and Channeling Liam Neeson for Albert Nobbs Janet McTeer is barely recognizable in the role for which she's been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, playing a woman passing as a man in nineteenth-century Dublin in Albert Nobbs.

There is one reason "Albert Nobbs" is getting released this week , and that reason is named Oscar.

Janet, who went to Queen Anne School off Bootham, said working as a waitress at the Theatre Royal and designing cotumes for the Mystery Plays influenced her ambition to become an actress.

It was 1982 when Glenn Close first played Albert Nobbs, a woman in 19th century Ireland who, thanks to a short 'do and vaguely androgynous features, has passed herself off as a man, in order to reap the then-vocational benefits of the gender.

Irish director Peter McDonald and producer Eimear O'Kane's light hearted short film PENTECOST has been nominated for an Academy Award , along with the team behind ALBERT NOBBS the Irish co-production which has received three nominations for Best Actress , Best Supporting Actress and Best Make Up .

If she wins, though, it'll be only her third, after 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer and 1983 for Sophie's Choice.

It's not exactly proper etiquette to almost steal a movie away from the person who sought you out for the part.