Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States on July 18th, 1961 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 62, Elizabeth McGovern biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Elizabeth Lee McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actor as well as a singer.
Evelyn Nesbit, a 1981 film Ragtime, earned an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit.
She is also known for her role in Cora Crawley, Countes of Grantham, in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and the Golden Globe Award.
Ordinary People (1980), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and The Chaperone (2018).
Early life
McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Katharine Wolcott (née Watts), a high school tutor, and William Montgomery McGovern, Jr., a university professor. She is of Irish, English, and Scottish descent. Cammie McGovern, her younger sister, is a novelist. William Montgomery McGovern, her maternal grandmother, was born in Maryland, and her maternal great-grandfather, Charles P. Snyder, was a U.S. diplomat.
When McGovern was ten years old, she and her family moved from Illinois to Los Angeles, California, where her father accepted a teaching position at UCLA School of Law. She enrolled in North Hollywood High School, where she first appeared in school plays. She attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and studied for a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama at the Juilliard School in New York City from 1979 to 1981.
Personal life
McGovern married British film director and producer Simon Curtis in 1992; the couple have two children and live in Chiswick, London.
Career
While attending Juilliard, McGovern was offered a role in Ordinary People, which portrayed a struggling teenager Conrad Jartt (Timothy Hutton). She continued her acting education at the American Conservatory Theatre and Juilliard and then began to perform in plays, first Off-Broadway and later in famous theaters.
Evelyn Nesbit's performance in 1981 earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime. She appeared in Beginners (1982) before deciding on Beginners (1982).
Deborah Gelly, Robert De Niro's romantic interest, appeared in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America in 1984. She appeared in two other films this year, Racing with the Moon, a coming-of-age story starring Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage, and Lovesick as a patient whose psychiatrist (Dudley Moore) falls in love with her, putting his art in jeopardy.
She appeared as Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in Johnny Handsome, directed by Walter Hill in 1989, and in the same year she appeared as a rebellious lesbian in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Handmaid's Tale, she appeared as a "conservative lesbian."
She's Having a Baby, directed by John Hughes, and starred in Curtis Hanson's thriller The Bedroom Window. In 1990's A Shock to the System, a comedic mystery about a man who plots the murder of his wife, she partnered with Michael Caine.
In a 1994 comedy, The Favorite McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend (played by Brad Pitt) by becoming her husband's proxy in a game for a man the friend has aspired to.
McGovern appeared in a number of films in the 21st century, including Woman in Gold, a drama starring Helen Mirren and directed by her husband Simon Curtis.
McGovern appeared in The Chaperone, directed by Michael Engler and written by Julian Fellowes, who also appeared on the British drama series Downton Abbey. McGovern played Norma Carlisle, a middle-aged wife and mother who volunteers to accompany the young Louise Brooks to New York City to study dance at the Denishawn School, based on Laura Moriarty's book. The Chaperone is McGovern's first film. Simon Curtis, her husband, was an executive producer on the film.
In the Downton Abbey film in 2019 and its 2022 sequel, McGovern reprised her role as Cora Crawley, Countes of Grantham. The films follow the TV series's storyline.
McGovern has appeared in several television shows, majority in the United Kingdom. McGovern played Marguerite St. Just in a BBC television series loosely based on the book The Scarlet Pimpernel. On Thursday, she appeared in the four-part television drama series The 12th of the same year.
She appeared in "Harm," a 2006 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in which her character, Dr. Jeremy, appeared on American television. Faith Sutton, a psychiatrist, was accused of complicity in detainee abuse. Broken Glass (Arthur Miller, 1996); Tales from the Crypt; Tales from the Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt; Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre ("Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and If Not for You (CBS 1995, own series);
Ellen Doubleday, Daphne du Maurier's paramour, appeared in Daphne, a BBC2 television drama based on Margaret Forster's biography of the author.
In December 2008, McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in "Appointment with Death," an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot. She appeared in the three-part BBC comedy series Freezing, written by James Wood and produced and co-produced by her husband Simon Curtis in the same year. It was also on BBC Four that it was first broadcast. McGovern played Elizabeth, an American expatriate actress who lives in Chiswick with her publisher husband, played by Hugh Bonneville, and co-starring Tom Hollander as her theatrical agent.
Cora Crawley, Countess Grantham's wife, 7th Earl of Grantham, was played by Hugh Bonneville) in the British TV series Downton Abbey and later in the 2019 and 2022 film adaptations. McGovern and Bonneville were the third time a married couple on film in Downton Abbey, having previously co-starred in Freezing and Thursday the 12th together.
McGovern is also a singer-songwriter and plays the guitar. In 2008, she began fronting Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub in Portobello Road, London. The band released an album of songs she produced with the Nelson Brothers, who are now members of The Nelson Brothers. Ron Knights on bass and Rowan Oliver, borrowed from Goldfrapp for the recording sessions, are among the album's on-demand drummers. Michelle Dockery, McGovern's oldest daughter in Downton Abbey, has occasionally performed with the band. Dockery appeared on the bands second album How Not To Lose Things, which was released in 2012. Terl Bryant joined the band, taking over Rowan Oliver as the drummer and percussionist.
Sadie and the Hotheads toured the United Kingdom and Europe in 2013 and appeared in festivals including the Isle of Wight Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They announced that they were working on their third album with help from former direct-to-fan crowdfunding firm PledgeMusic at the end of the year. Nevertheless, waiting was announced in early 2014 as the support act for Mike and the Mechanics, ahead of their next UK tour.
In 2014, McGovern released three Christmas albums. Julian Ovenden's rendition of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and Duet The First Noel appears on Warner Music's double-disc compilation Christmas At Downton Abbey. The Hotheads and Sadie also performed their cover version of the Christmas song The Little Drummer Boy.
McGovern and her band Sadie and the Hotheads began recording on a fourth album and embarked on a mini tour of the United Kingdom after the conclusion of TV series Downton Abbey in late 2015. The band released The Collection (Everybody's Got A Song) in early 2016, shortly after they began to record their new album.
Simon Nelson's "Hothead" and American singer and guitarist Duke Robillard collaborated on a track for his album Duke Robillard & His Dames of Rhythm in 2017. While Nelson is a guest musician on electric guitar for the track, McGovern sings vocals for "Me, Myself, and I."
The Truth, McGovern's fifth album, was released in early 2019. The Truth was released under her name, not her predecessor albums with her band, although it does include all of the musicians from Sadie and the Hotheads. Samuel L. Jackson appears on the album as a guest vocalist on a track.
Roles in New York include:
McGovern's other theatre appearances in the United States include: 'Below's CVs (below).
McGovern's stage appearances include: since coming to London:
The Shakespeare Theatre Company gave McGovern the 2013 Will Award.
McGovern, an American playwright, was in rehearsal to appear in a revival of The Little Foxes at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in early 2020. However, the performance arts have been postponed indefinitely due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performing arts.