Janet Montgomery Biography

Janet Ruth Montgomery (born 29 October 1985) is an English film and TV actress. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as Ames in the second season of Fox's Human Target, and also for her appearances in The Hills Run Red and Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead, as well as her role as Eric Murphy's assistant Jennie in HBO's Entourage. She recently played protagonist Martina Garretti in Made in Jersey, a television drama that premiered on CBS in September 2012, but was cancelled on 10 October after only two episodes had been shown.

Career

Although trained as a dancer at the Stella Mann College of Performing Arts, Bedford, Montgomery chose to pursue acting rather than dance professionally. Her lack of drama school training made it difficult to obtain acting representation initially. She achieved her breakthrough after producing a play alongside friend Gethin Anthony.

In 2008, Montgomery was cast as the love interest of Nicholas Hoult in an episode of the teenage drama Skins. She also appeared in both the TV movie Dis/Connected and the short film Flushed.

The following year, Montgomery appeared in two straight-to-DVD horror-genre releases filmed in Sofia, Bulgaria " The Hills Run Red and the finale of the Wrong Turn trilogy, Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead and played the role of Fallyn Werner, a teenage killer in the Lifetime film Accused at 17.

In 2010, Montgomery appeared in her first theatrically released films, playing Ruth in the mystery The Rapture, Giselle in the independent horror film Dead Cert and the supporting role of Madeline in the Academy Award nominated psychological thriller Black Swan " playing a Little Swan to Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning portrayal of the Black Swan.

That same year Montgomery also signed on to play Paul Rudd's love interest in Our Idiot Brother. After seeing her audition tape in Los Angeles, producers worked around her schedule on Entourage and flew her to New York to begin shooting. This was her first comedy movie and one in which she received rave reviews. Whilst working on Entourage, Montgomery was invited to appear on The League, a critically acclaimed semi-improvised show about American football, and appeared playing Ambrosia the stripper in the first episode of the second season. Barely recognisable and improvising in an American accent paved the way for her offer from Human Target producers for the role of Ames.

In December 2011, Montgomery starred as Princess Mithian, a love interest of King Arthur, in Series 4 Episode 11 of Merlin, later returning in Series 5 Episode 4 (alongside James Fox).

In 2012, Montgomery played the lead role in the CBS television series Made in Jersey. The series was cancelled after two episodes aired. Despite the early cancellation, Montgomery received huge compliments and a career boost from the short lived series. Two new episodes aired on 22 December 2012.

Montgomery attracted the attention of Stephen Poliakoff via an audition tape she sent to casting director Andy Pryor for the role of Sarah in Dancing on the Edge. Poliakoff was impressed and offered her the job via Skype. The five-part mini series aired 4 February 2013 on BBC Two.

She also played opposite David Tennant in BBC Four's Spies of Warsaw. The drama received mixed reviews. She is to appear as Grace Van Helsing, "the prodigal daughter who returns to run the family newspaper (and presumably stake a few vampires)" in the ABC pilot series Gothica. Actor Chris Egan plays her love interest, the character Dorian Gray.

Personal life

Montgomery was born in Bournemouth, England. Her uncle was bass player Mike "Monty" Montgomery of Zoot Money's Big Roll Band. Janet currently lives in Islington, London with her boyfriend and her bulldog Guthrie.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2008	Dis/Connected	Lucy	TV film
2008	Flushed	Queen Bitch	Short film
2009	The Hills Run Red	Serina	Direct-to-video
2009	Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead	Alex	Direct-to-video
2010	Accused at 17	Fallyn Werner	TV film
2010	Dead Cert	Giselle
2010	The Rapture	Ruth
2010	Black Swan	Madeline
2011	Our Idiot Brother	Lady Arabella
2012	Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games	Diane	TV special

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Short Change	Uncredited Extra	1 episode
2008	Skins	Beth	"Tony" (season 2: episode 6)
2010"2011	Entourage	Jennie	Recurring role; 10 episodes
2010	The League	Ambrosia	"Vegas Draft" (season 2: episode 1)
2010"2011	Human Target	Ames	Main role; 11 episodes
2011"2012	Merlin	Princess Mithian	* "The Hunter's Heart" (Series 4, Ep 11), "Another's Sorrow" (Series 5, Ep 4)
2012	Made in Jersey	Martina Garretti	Starring role
2013	Dancing on the Edge	Sarah	5 Episodes
2013	Spies of Warsaw	Anna	Starring role; 2 episodes
2013	Gothica	Grace Van Helsing	Female lead role