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.