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- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- 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.- IMDb mini biography by: AC
- SpouseJoe Fox(November 29, 2019 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenSunday Juno Fox
- RelativesJason Montgomery(Sibling)
- Was offered the part of Sandra Bullock's daughter in The Blind Side (2009), but had a contract with FOX, which she could not get out of.
- Screen tested twice, opposite Matt Damon, for the lead in The Adjustment Bureau (2011), which eventually went to Emily Blunt.
- Achieved her breakthrough after producing a play with her friend Gethin Anthony.
- Trained as a dancer at the Stella Mann College of Performing Arts, Bedford.
- Delievered her daughter Sunday through emergency C-section after she developed uterus infection.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!'
- Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
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