Elizabeth McGovern
Actor
- Born
- July 18, 1961 (age 65) · Evanston, Illinois, USA
Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actress.
In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Timothy Hutton.
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The following year she completed her education as an actress at the American Conservatory Theatre and at The Juilliard School, and began to appear in plays, first Off-Broadway and later in famous theaters.
In 1981, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime.
In 1984, she starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niro's romantic interest, Deborah Gelly. In 1989, she played Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in Johnny Handsome, directed by Walter Hill, and the same year she appeared as a rebellious lesbian in Volker Schlöndorff's thriller The Handmaid's Tale.
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- 2027Seasons
- 2025Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale as Cora Crawley
- 2025Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale as Self
- 2024And Mrs. as Margaret
- 2022Downton Abbey: A New Era as Cora Crawley
- 2019Downton Abbey as Cora Crawley
- 2019JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes as Self (archive footage)
- 2019The Chaperone as Norma
- 2018The Commuter as Karen MacCauley
- 2017The Wife
