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Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth Lee McGovern[1] (born July 18, 1961)[2] is an American-British actress. She has received many awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination.

Elizabeth McGovern
Born
Elizabeth Lee McGovern

(1961-07-18) July 18, 1961 (age 62)
EducationJuilliard School
Occupation(s)Actor, musician
Years active1979–present
Spouse
(m. 1992)
Children2
Musical career
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
Websiteelizabethmcgovern.co.uk

Born in Evanston, Illinois, McGovern spent most of her early life in Los Angeles. After attending the American Conservatory Theater and the Juilliard School, she made her feature film debut in Ordinary People (1980). For her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the musical film Ragtime (1981), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently had lead roles in a number of major studio films, including Once Upon a Time in America (1984), She's Having a Baby (1987), The Bedroom Window (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and The Wings of the Dove (1997).

In 2007, McGovern, after years of studying guitar, formed the musical group Sadie and the Hotheads, with whom she has released four studio albums since 2016. She gained further international attention for her portrayal of Cora, Countess of Grantham, in the British drama series Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. She reprised her role as Cora in the subsequent films Downton Abbey (2019) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).

Early life edit

McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Katharine Wolcott (née Watts), a high school teacher, and William Montgomery McGovern, Jr., a university professor.[3] She is of Irish, English, and Scottish descent.[4] Her younger sister is novelist Cammie McGovern. Her paternal grandfather was adventurer William Montgomery McGovern, her maternal great-grandfathers were U.S. diplomat Ethelbert Watts and Admiral Charles P. Snyder, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Congressman Charles P. Snyder.[5][6][7]

When 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.[8] She attended North Hollywood High School, where she began performing in school plays.[8] After high school, she attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and studied toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama at the Juilliard School in New York City as a member of Group 12 from 1979 to 1981.[9]

Career edit

In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in what became her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett (Timothy Hutton). The following year she completed her acting education at the American Conservatory Theater and Juilliard, 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.[10] She then appeared in Beginners (1982).

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. She had leading roles in two other films that year, Racing with the Moon, a coming-of-age story also starring Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage, and the comedy Lovesick, as a patient whose psychiatrist (Dudley Moore) falls in love with her, risking his practice.

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 film The Handmaid's Tale.

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. She 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.

In a 1994 comedy, The Favor, McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend (played by Brad Pitt) by becoming her married best friend's proxy in a tryst with a man the friend has fantasized about.

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.

In 2018, McGovern starred in The Chaperone, directed by Michael Engler and written by Julian Fellowes, whom she also worked with on the British drama series Downton Abbey. Based on the novel by Laura Moriarty, McGovern played Norma Carlisle, a middle-aged wife and mother who volunteers to chaperone the young Louise Brooks to New York City to study dance at the Denishawn School. The Chaperone is the first film that McGovern has also produced. Her husband, Simon Curtis, was an executive producer for the film.[11][12]

McGovern reprised her role as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham for the Downton Abbey film in 2019 and its 2022 sequel. The films continue the storyline of the TV series.

Television edit

McGovern has appeared in several television productions, mostly in the UK. In 1999 and 2000 McGovern played Marguerite St. Just in a BBC television series loosely based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel.[13] She also starred in the four-part television crime drama series Thursday the 12th that same year.

On American TV, she appeared in a 2007 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Harm", in which her character of Dr. Faith Sutton was a psychiatrist accused of complicity in detainee abuse. Her other television work includes Broken Glass (Arthur Miller, 1996); Tales from the Crypt; The Changeling; Tales from Hollywood; the HBO series Men and Women; 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).

In May 2007, she played Ellen Doubleday, Daphne du Maurier's paramour, in Daphne, a BBC2 television drama by Amy Jenkins based on Margaret Forster's biography of the author.[14]

In December 2008, McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in "Appointment with Death", an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot. In the same year, she appeared in the three-part BBC comedy series Freezing, written by James Wood and directed and co-produced by her husband Simon Curtis. First broadcast on BBC Four, it was also shown on BBC2 in February 2008. McGovern played an American expatriate actress named Elizabeth, living in Chiswick with her publisher husband, played by Hugh Bonneville, and co-starring Tom Hollander as her theatrical agent.

From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, wife of Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (played by Hugh Bonneville) in the British TV series Downton Abbey,[15] and also in the 2019 and 2022 film adaptations. Downton Abbey was the third time McGovern and Bonneville have been cast as a married couple on screen, having previously co-starred in Freezing and Thursday the 12th together.[16]

Music edit

McGovern is also a singer-songwriter and plays the guitar. In 2008 she began fronting the band Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub venue in Portobello Road, London. The band released an album of songs she developed with The Nelson Brothers, who are now part of the band. The album, I Can Wait, also includes Ron Knights on bass and Rowan Oliver, borrowed from Goldfrapp, as drummer for the recording sessions.[10] Michelle Dockery, who plays McGovern's eldest daughter in Downton Abbey, has occasionally sung with the band.[17] Dockery was also a guest backing vocalist on the bands second album How Not To Lose Things, released in 2012.[18] Terl Bryant also joined the band, taking over from Rowan Oliver as drummer and percussionist.[19]

Throughout 2013, Sadie and the Hotheads toured the UK and Europe and performed in festivals including the Isle of Wight Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[20][21][22] At the end of the year they announced that they were working on their third album with support from former direct-to-fan crowdfunding company PledgeMusic.[23] Still Waiting was released in early 2014 prior to their next UK tour as the support act for Mike and the Mechanics.[24]

McGovern recorded three Christmas tracks in 2014. Her rendition of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and duet with Julian Ovenden performing The First Noel appear on the double-disc album Christmas At Downton Abbey, produced by Warner Music. Sadie and the Hotheads also released their cover version of the Christmas song The Little Drummer Boy.[25][26]

Following the conclusion of TV series Downton Abbey in late 2015, McGovern and her band Sadie and the Hotheads began work on a fourth album and embarked on a mini tour of the UK.[27] While they continued to record their new album, the band released a compilation album of songs from their first three albums entitled The Collection (Everybody's Got A Song) in early 2016.

In 2017, McGovern and "Hothead" Simon Nelson collaborated with American singer and musician Duke Robillard on a track for his album Duke Robillard & His Dames of Rhythm. McGovern sings vocals for "Me, Myself and I" while Nelson is a guest musician on electric guitar for the track.[28]

McGovern's fifth album, The Truth, was released in early 2019. Unlike her previous albums with her band, The Truth was released under her name, though it features all of the musicians from Sadie and the Hotheads. The album includes a track on which Samuel L. Jackson appears as a guest vocalist.[29][30]

Theatre edit

Roles in New York include:

In her theatre programme CVs (below), McGovern lists her other theatre work in the U.S. as including:

Since moving to London, McGovern's stage work has included:

McGovern was awarded the 2013 Will Award by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.[41]

In early 2020, McGovern was in rehearsal to star in a revival of The Little Foxes by American playwright Lillian Hellman at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. However, due to the Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performing arts, the show has been postponed indefinitely.[42][43][44]

Personal life edit

In 1992, McGovern married British film director and producer Simon Curtis; the couple have two daughters and live in Chiswick, London.[45][46]

Filmography edit

Film edit

Year Title Role Notes
1980 Ordinary People Jeannine Pratt
1980 Last Year's Model Unknown Short film
1981 Ragtime Evelyn Nesbit Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
1983 Lovesick Chloe Allen
1984 Once Upon a Time in America Deborah Gelly (adult)
1984 Racing with the Moon Caddie Winger
1986 Native Son Mary Dalton
1987 The Bedroom Window Denise
1988 She's Having a Baby Kristy Bainbridge Briggs
1989 Johnny Handsome Donna McCarty
1990 The Handmaid's Tale Moira
1990 A Shock to the System Stella Anderson
1990 Tune in Tomorrow... Elena Quince
1993 King of the Hill Lydia
1993 Me and Veronica Fanny
1994 The Favor Emily
1995 Wings of Courage Noelle Guillaumet Short film
1997 The Wings of the Dove Susie "Sue" Stringham
1998 The Man with Rain in His Shoes Diane
1998 The Misadventures of Margaret Till Turner
2000 Manila [de] Elizabeth
2000 The House of Mirth Mrs. Carry Fisher
2001 Buffalo Soldiers Mrs. Berman
2006 The Truth Donna
2008 Inconceivable Tallulah "Tutu" Williams
2010 Kick-Ass Mrs. Lizewski
2010 Clash of the Titans Marmara
2011 Angel's Crest Jane
2012 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Mrs. Thatcham
2015 Unexpected Samantha's mother
2015 Woman in Gold Judge Florence Cooper
2015 Swung Dolly
2016 Showing Roots Shirley
2017 The Wife Elaine Mozell
2018 The Commuter Karen McCauley
2018 The Chaperone Norma
2019 Downton Abbey Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham
2022 Downton Abbey: A New Era Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham
TBA And Mrs TBA Post–production

Television edit

Year Title Role Notes
1979 California Fever Lisa Bannister Episode: "The Girl from Somewhere"
1984 Faerie Tale Theatre Snow White Episode: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
1990 Women & Men: Stories of Seduction Vicki Television film
1991 Ashenden Aileen Somerville Television film
Nominated—CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1992 Tales from Hollywood Helen Schwartz Television film
1993 Performance Beatrice-Joanna Episode: "The Changeling"
1995 If Not for You Jessie Kent 8 episodes
1995 Broken Trust Janice Dillon Television film
1996 Broken Glass Margaret Hymen Television film
1996 The Summer of Ben Tyler Celia Rayburn Television film
1996 Tracey Takes On... Judge Loring Episode: "Vanity"
1996 Tales from the Crypt Laura Kendall Episode: "Horror in the Night"
1997 Clover Sara Kate Television film
1999 The Scarlet Pimpernel Lady Marguerite Blakeney 3 episodes
2000 Thursday the 12th Candice Hopper Television film
2001 The Flamingo Rising Edna Lee Television film
2001 Hawk Susie Hawkins Television film
2001 Table 12 Mel Episode: "Preserves"
2003 The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire Helen Shaw 7 episodes
2006 Three Moons over Milford Laura Davis 8 episodes
2007 Daphne Ellen Doubleday Television film
2007 A Room with a View Mrs. Honeychurch Television film
2007 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Dr. Faith Sutton Episode: "Harm"
2007–08 Freezing Elizabeth 3 episodes
2008 Agatha Christie's Poirot Dame Celia Westholme Episode: "Appointment with Death"
2009 10 Minute Tales The Ex-Wife Episode: "The Running of the Deer"
2010–2015 Downton Abbey Cora, Countess of Grantham 52 episodes
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2013, 2015)
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2019 War of the Worlds Helen Brown 8 episodes

Discography edit

Sadie and the Hotheads edit

Year Album title Notes
2007 I Can Wait
2012 How Not To Lose Things
2014 Still Waiting
2016 The Collection (Everybody's Got A Song) Compilation album of songs from first three albums.

Solo edit

Year Album title Notes
2019 The Truth Features all Sadie and the Hotheads musicians.

Album guest appearances edit

Year Album title Notes
2014 Christmas At Downton Abbey Vocals on "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" and a duet on "The First Noel" with Julian Ovenden.
2017 Duke Robillard & His Dames of Rhythm Vocals on "Me, Myself and I".

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elizabeth, mcgovern, elizabeth, mcgovern, born, july, 1961, american, british, actress, received, many, awards, including, screen, actors, guild, award, three, golden, globe, award, nominations, academy, award, nomination, mcgovern, 2012, cannes, film, festiva. Elizabeth Lee McGovern 1 born July 18 1961 2 is an American British actress She has received many awards including a Screen Actors Guild Award three Golden Globe Award nominations and one Academy Award nomination Elizabeth McGovernMcGovern at the 2012 Cannes Film FestivalBornElizabeth Lee McGovern 1961 07 18 July 18 1961 age 62 Evanston Illinois U S EducationJuilliard SchoolOccupation s Actor musicianYears active1979 presentSpouseSimon Curtis m 1992 wbr Children2Musical careerInstrumentsVocalsguitarWebsiteelizabethmcgovern wbr co wbr uk Born in Evanston Illinois McGovern spent most of her early life in Los Angeles After attending the American Conservatory Theater and the Juilliard School she made her feature film debut in Ordinary People 1980 For her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the musical film Ragtime 1981 she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress She subsequently had lead roles in a number of major studio films including Once Upon a Time in America 1984 She s Having a Baby 1987 The Bedroom Window 1987 The Handmaid s Tale 1990 and The Wings of the Dove 1997 In 2007 McGovern after years of studying guitar formed the musical group Sadie and the Hotheads with whom she has released four studio albums since 2016 She gained further international attention for her portrayal of Cora Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey 2010 2015 for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award She reprised her role as Cora in the subsequent films Downton Abbey 2019 and Downton Abbey A New Era 2022 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Television 2 2 Music 2 3 Theatre 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4 1 Film 4 2 Television 5 Discography 5 1 Sadie and the Hotheads 5 2 Solo 5 3 Album guest appearances 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editMcGovern was born in Evanston Illinois the daughter of Katharine Wolcott nee Watts a high school teacher and William Montgomery McGovern Jr a university professor 3 She is of Irish English and Scottish descent 4 Her younger sister is novelist Cammie McGovern Her paternal grandfather was adventurer William Montgomery McGovern her maternal great grandfathers were U S diplomat Ethelbert Watts and Admiral Charles P Snyder and her maternal great great grandfather was Congressman Charles P Snyder 5 6 7 When 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 8 She attended North Hollywood High School where she began performing in school plays 8 After high school she attended the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and studied toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama at the Juilliard School in New York City as a member of Group 12 from 1979 to 1981 9 Career editIn 1980 while studying at Juilliard McGovern was offered a part in what became her first film Ordinary People in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett Timothy Hutton The following year she completed her acting education at the American Conservatory Theater and Juilliard 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 10 She then appeared in Beginners 1982 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 She had leading roles in two other films that year Racing with the Moon a coming of age story also starring Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage and the comedy Lovesick as a patient whose psychiatrist Dudley Moore falls in love with her risking his practice 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 Schlondorff s film The Handmaid s Tale 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 She 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 In a 1994 comedy The Favor McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend played by Brad Pitt by becoming her married best friend s proxy in a tryst with a man the friend has fantasized about 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 In 2018 McGovern starred in The Chaperone directed by Michael Engler and written by Julian Fellowes whom she also worked with on the British drama series Downton Abbey Based on the novel by Laura Moriarty McGovern played Norma Carlisle a middle aged wife and mother who volunteers to chaperone the young Louise Brooks to New York City to study dance at the Denishawn School The Chaperone is the first film that McGovern has also produced Her husband Simon Curtis was an executive producer for the film 11 12 McGovern reprised her role as Cora Crawley Countess of Grantham for the Downton Abbey film in 2019 and its 2022 sequel The films continue the storyline of the TV series Television edit McGovern has appeared in several television productions mostly in the UK In 1999 and 2000 McGovern played Marguerite St Just in a BBC television series loosely based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel 13 She also starred in the four part television crime drama series Thursday the 12th that same year On American TV she appeared in a 2007 episode of Law amp Order Special Victims Unit titled Harm in which her character of Dr Faith Sutton was a psychiatrist accused of complicity in detainee abuse Her other television work includes Broken Glass Arthur Miller 1996 Tales from the Crypt The Changeling Tales from Hollywood the HBO series Men and Women 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 In May 2007 she played Ellen Doubleday Daphne du Maurier s paramour in Daphne a BBC2 television drama by Amy Jenkins based on Margaret Forster s biography of the author 14 In December 2008 McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in Appointment with Death an episode of Agatha Christie s Poirot In the same year she appeared in the three part BBC comedy series Freezing written by James Wood and directed and co produced by her husband Simon Curtis First broadcast on BBC Four it was also shown on BBC2 in February 2008 McGovern played an American expatriate actress named Elizabeth living in Chiswick with her publisher husband played by Hugh Bonneville and co starring Tom Hollander as her theatrical agent From 2010 to 2015 she portrayed Cora Crawley Countess of Grantham wife of Robert Crawley 7th Earl of Grantham played by Hugh Bonneville in the British TV series Downton Abbey 15 and also in the 2019 and 2022 film adaptations Downton Abbey was the third time McGovern and Bonneville have been cast as a married couple on screen having previously co starred in Freezing and Thursday the 12th together 16 Music edit McGovern is also a singer songwriter and plays the guitar In 2008 she began fronting the band Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub venue in Portobello Road London The band released an album of songs she developed with The Nelson Brothers who are now part of the band The album I Can Wait also includes Ron Knights on bass and Rowan Oliver borrowed from Goldfrapp as drummer for the recording sessions 10 Michelle Dockery who plays McGovern s eldest daughter in Downton Abbey has occasionally sung with the band 17 Dockery was also a guest backing vocalist on the bands second album How Not To Lose Things released in 2012 18 Terl Bryant also joined the band taking over from Rowan Oliver as drummer and percussionist 19 Throughout 2013 Sadie and the Hotheads toured the UK and Europe and performed in festivals including the Isle of Wight Festival Montreux Jazz Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe 20 21 22 At the end of the year they announced that they were working on their third album with support from former direct to fan crowdfunding company PledgeMusic 23 Still Waiting was released in early 2014 prior to their next UK tour as the support act for Mike and the Mechanics 24 McGovern recorded three Christmas tracks in 2014 Her rendition of It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and duet with Julian Ovenden performing The First Noel appear on the double disc album Christmas At Downton Abbey produced by Warner Music Sadie and the Hotheads also released their cover version of the Christmas song The Little Drummer Boy 25 26 Following the conclusion of TV series Downton Abbey in late 2015 McGovern and her band Sadie and the Hotheads began work on a fourth album and embarked on a mini tour of the UK 27 While they continued to record their new album the band released a compilation album of songs from their first three albums entitled The Collection Everybody s Got A Song in early 2016 In 2017 McGovern and Hothead Simon Nelson collaborated with American singer and musician Duke Robillard on a track for his album Duke Robillard amp His Dames of Rhythm McGovern sings vocals for Me Myself and I while Nelson is a guest musician on electric guitar for the track 28 McGovern s fifth album The Truth was released in early 2019 Unlike her previous albums with her band The Truth was released under her name though it features all of the musicians from Sadie and the Hotheads The album includes a track on which Samuel L Jackson appears as a guest vocalist 29 30 Theatre edit Roles in New York include Melissa Gardner in Love Letters A R Gurney at the Edison Theatre October 1989 Ophelia in Hamlet with the Roundabout Theater Company at the Criterion Center Stage Right April 1992 31 Mrs Conway in Time and the Conways at the American Airlines Theatre October 2017 In her theatre programme CVs below McGovern lists her other theatre work in the U S as including My Sister in This House Wendy Kesselman Painting Churches Tina Howe The Hitch Hiker Viola in Twelfth Night 32 A Map of the World David Hare Aunt Dan and Lemon Wallace Shawn A Midsummer Night s Dream at the New York Shakespeare Festival Winter 1987 33 When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout Sharman Macdonald Maids of Honour Three Sisters Chekhov As You Like It Ava Gardner in Ava The Secret Conversations at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles April May 2023 34 Since moving to London McGovern s stage work has included Jenny in The Misanthrope Moliere freely adapted by Martin Crimp at the Young Vic Theatre February 1996 Darlene in Hurlyburly David Rabe at the Old Vic Theatre March 1997 Nan and Lina in Three Days of Rain Richard Greenberg at the Donmar Warehouse March and November 1999 Beth in Dinner With Friends Donald Margulies at the Hampstead Theatre June 2001 Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne adapted by Phyllis Nagy at the Minerva Theatre August 2005 Jackie Kennedy in Aristo at the Minerva Theatre September October 2008 35 Judith Brown in Complicit by Joe Sutton in The Old Vic January 2009 Miss A in The Shawl by David Mamet in the Arcola Theatre September 2009 June in Sunset at the Villa Thalia by Alexi Kaye Campbell at the Royal National Theatre May August 2016 36 Veronica in God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza at the Theatre Royal Bath August September 2018 Anne in The Starry Messenger by Kenneth Lonergan at Wyndham s Theatre May August 2019 37 Veronica in God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza on tour in the UK January February 2020 38 Ava Gardner in Ava The Secret Conversations at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith London January April 2022 39 Martha in Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee at the Theatre Royal Bath January February 2023 40 McGovern was awarded the 2013 Will Award by the Shakespeare Theatre Company 41 In early 2020 McGovern was in rehearsal to star in a revival of The Little Foxes by American playwright Lillian Hellman at the Gate Theatre in Dublin However due to the Impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on the performing arts the show has been postponed indefinitely 42 43 44 Personal life editIn 1992 McGovern married British film director and producer Simon Curtis the couple have two daughters and live in Chiswick London 45 46 Filmography editFilm edit Year Title Role Notes 1980 Ordinary People Jeannine Pratt 1980 Last Year s Model Unknown Short film 1981 Ragtime Evelyn Nesbit Nominated Academy Award for Best Supporting ActressNominated Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year Actress 1983 Lovesick Chloe Allen 1984 Once Upon a Time in America Deborah Gelly adult 1984 Racing with the Moon Caddie Winger 1986 Native Son Mary Dalton 1987 The Bedroom Window Denise 1988 She s Having a Baby Kristy Bainbridge Briggs 1989 Johnny Handsome Donna McCarty 1990 The Handmaid s Tale Moira 1990 A Shock to the System Stella Anderson 1990 Tune in Tomorrow Elena Quince 1993 King of the Hill Lydia 1993 Me and Veronica Fanny 1994 The Favor Emily 1995 Wings of Courage Noelle Guillaumet Short film 1997 The Wings of the Dove Susie Sue Stringham 1998 The Man with Rain in His Shoes Diane 1998 The Misadventures of Margaret Till Turner 2000 Manila de Elizabeth 2000 The House of Mirth Mrs Carry Fisher 2001 Buffalo Soldiers Mrs Berman 2006 The Truth Donna 2008 Inconceivable Tallulah Tutu Williams 2010 Kick Ass Mrs Lizewski 2010 Clash of the Titans Marmara 2011 Angel s Crest Jane 2012 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Mrs Thatcham 2015 Unexpected Samantha s mother 2015 Woman in Gold Judge Florence Cooper 2015 Swung Dolly 2016 Showing Roots Shirley 2017 The Wife Elaine Mozell 2018 The Commuter Karen McCauley 2018 The Chaperone Norma 2019 Downton Abbey Cora Crawley Countess of Grantham 2022 Downton Abbey A New Era Cora Crawley Countess of Grantham TBA And Mrs TBA Post production Television edit Year Title Role Notes 1979 California Fever Lisa Bannister Episode The Girl from Somewhere 1984 Faerie Tale Theatre Snow White Episode Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 1990 Women amp Men Stories of Seduction Vicki Television film 1991 Ashenden Aileen Somerville Television filmNominated CableACE Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie 1992 Tales from Hollywood Helen Schwartz Television film 1993 Performance Beatrice Joanna Episode The Changeling 1995 If Not for You Jessie Kent 8 episodes 1995 Broken Trust Janice Dillon Television film 1996 Broken Glass Margaret Hymen Television film 1996 The Summer of Ben Tyler Celia Rayburn Television film 1996 Tracey Takes On Judge Loring Episode Vanity 1996 Tales from the Crypt Laura Kendall Episode Horror in the Night 1997 Clover Sara Kate Television film 1999 The Scarlet Pimpernel Lady Marguerite Blakeney 3 episodes 2000 Thursday the 12th Candice Hopper Television film 2001 The Flamingo Rising Edna Lee Television film 2001 Hawk Susie Hawkins Television film 2001 Table 12 Mel Episode Preserves 2003 The Brotherhood of Poland New Hampshire Helen Shaw 7 episodes 2006 Three Moons over Milford Laura Davis 8 episodes 2007 Daphne Ellen Doubleday Television film 2007 A Room with a View Mrs Honeychurch Television film 2007 Law amp Order Special Victims Unit Dr Faith Sutton Episode Harm 2007 08 Freezing Elizabeth 3 episodes 2008 Agatha Christie s Poirot Dame Celia Westholme Episode Appointment with Death 2009 10 Minute Tales The Ex Wife Episode The Running of the Deer 2010 2015 Downton Abbey Cora Countess of Grantham 52 episodesScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 2013 2015 Nominated Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Miniseries or Television FilmNominated Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieNominated Satellite Award for Best Actress Miniseries or Television FilmNominated Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series 2019 War of the Worlds Helen Brown 8 episodes nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Elizabeth McGovern Discography editSadie and the Hotheads edit Year Album title Notes 2007 I Can Wait 2012 How Not To Lose Things 2014 Still Waiting 2016 The Collection Everybody s Got A Song Compilation album of songs from first three albums Solo edit Year Album title Notes 2019 The Truth Features all Sadie and the Hotheads musicians Album guest appearances edit Year Album title Notes 2014 Christmas At Downton Abbey Vocals on It Came Upon A Midnight Clear and a duet on The First Noel with Julian Ovenden 2017 Duke Robillard amp His Dames of Rhythm Vocals on Me Myself and I References editTheatre Record and its annual Indexes Barack Obama hosts State Dinner for David Cameron at the White House UK Associated Press March 15 2012 Archived from the original on November 18 2018 via The Telegraph Famous birthdays for July 18 Vin Diesel Kristen Bell United Press International July 18 2019 Archived from the original on July 19 2019 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