Elizabeth Lee McGovern was born on July 18,1961 and is an American actress and musician.
24 Facts About Elizabeth McGovern
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Elizabeth McGovern has received many awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination.
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Elizabeth McGovern subsequently had lead roles in a number of major studio films, including Once Upon a Time in America, She's Having a Baby, The Bedroom Window, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Wings of the Dove.
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Elizabeth McGovern gained further international attention for her portrayal of Cora, Countess of Grantham, in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award.
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Elizabeth McGovern reprised her role as Cora in the subsequent films Downton Abbey and Downton Abbey: A New Era.
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Elizabeth McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Katharine Wolcott, a high school teacher, and William Montgomery Elizabeth McGovern, Jr.
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When Elizabeth McGovern was 10 years old, she relocated with her family from Illinois to Los Angeles, California, where her father accepted a teaching position at UCLA School of Law.
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Elizabeth McGovern attended North Hollywood High School, where she began performing in school plays.
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In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, Elizabeth McGovern was offered a part in what became her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett.
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Elizabeth McGovern had leading roles in two other films that year, Racing with the Moon, a coming-of-age story starring Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage, and the comedy Lovesick, as a patient whose psychiatrist falls in love with her, risking his practice.
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Elizabeth McGovern co-starred with Kevin Bacon in a romantic comedy, She's Having a Baby, directed by John Hughes, and starred in the thriller The Bedroom Window, directed by Curtis Hanson.
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Elizabeth McGovern teamed with Michael Caine in 1990's A Shock to the System, a comic mystery about a man who plots the murder of his wife.
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Elizabeth 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.
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In 2018, Elizabeth McGovern starred in The Chaperone, directed by Michael Engler and written by Julian Fellowes, whom she worked with on the British drama series Downton Abbey.
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Elizabeth McGovern's husband, Simon Curtis, was an executive producer for the film.
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Elizabeth McGovern reprised her role as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham for the Downton Abbey film in 2019 and its 2022 sequel.
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Elizabeth McGovern has appeared in several television productions, mostly in the UK.
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In 1999 and 2000 Elizabeth McGovern played Marguerite St Just in a BBC television series loosely based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Elizabeth McGovern starred in the four-part television crime drama series Thursday the 12th that same year.
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In December 2008, Elizabeth McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in "Appointment with Death", an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot.
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Elizabeth McGovern sings vocals for "Me, Myself and I" while Nelson is a guest musician on electric guitar for the track.
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Elizabeth McGovern was awarded the 2013 Will Award by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
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In early 2020, Elizabeth McGovern was in rehearsal to star in a revival of The Little Foxes by American playwright Lillian Hellman at the Gate Theatre in Dublin.
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In 1992, Elizabeth McGovern married British film director and producer Simon Curtis; the couple have two daughters and live in Chiswick, London.