Elizabeth McGovern

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1961-07-18 (63 years old)

Place of Birth Evanston, Illinois, USA

Also Known As Элизабет Макговерн, 伊麗莎白·麥高文

Elizabeth McGovern

Biography

Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actor. 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. 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.

Known For

Actor

2025
Downton Abbey 3

as Cora Crawley

2024
And Mrs

as Margaret

2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era

as Cora Crawley

2019
Downton Abbey

as Cora Crawley

2019
The Chaperone

as Norma

2019
War of the Worlds

as Helen Brown

2018
The Wife

as Elaine Mozell

2018
The Commuter

as Karen MacCauley

2016
Showing Roots

as Shirley

2016
The Queen At 90

as Narrator

2015
Unexpected

as Carolyn

2015
Swung

as Dolly Adams

2015
Woman in Gold

as Judge Florence-Marie Cooper

2014
Civil War: The Untold Story

as Narrator (voice)

2014
The Kumars

as Self

2012
Screen Goddesses

as Narrator

2011
Angels Crest

as Jane

2011
Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

as Wallis Simpson (Voice)

2010
Kick-Ass

as Mrs. Lizewski

2010
2010
Downton Abbey

as Cora Crawley

2009
Modern Family

as California Mom (archive footage)

2008
Inconceivable

as Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams

2007
A Room with a View

as Mrs Honeychurch

2007
Daphne

as Ellen Doubleday

2007
2006
The Truth

as Donna

2004
Remembering Ragtime

as Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage)

2004
Big Fat Quiz

as Self - Guest

2003
Thursday the 12th

as Candice Hopper

2002
Buffalo Soldiers

as Mrs. Berman

2001
Hawkins

as Susie Hawkins

2001
2000
The House of Mirth

as Mrs. Carry Fisher

2000
Manila

as Elizabeth

1999
Loose Women

as Self

1999
The Scarlet Pimpernel

as Marguerite Blakeney

1997
Clover

as Sara Kate

1997
The Wings of the Dove

as Susan Stringham

1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler

as Celia Rayburn

1996
Broken Glass

as Margaret Hyman

1995
Broken Trust

as Janice Dillon

1995
Wings of Courage

as Noëlle Guillaumet

1995
If Not for You

as Jessie Kent

1994
The Favor

as Emily

1993
The Changeling

as Beatrice-Joanna

1993
1993
1992
Tales from Hollywood

as Helen Schwartz

1991
Ashenden

as Aileen Somerville

1991
Performance

as Helen Schwartz

1991
Performance

as Margaret Hyman

1991
Performance

as Beatrice-Joanna

1990
Tune in Tomorrow...

as Elena Quince

1990
A Shock to the System

as Stella Anderson

1990
1989
Johnny Handsome

as Donna McCarty

1989
Tales from the Crypt

as Laura Kendall

1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Dame Celia Westholme

1988
She's Having a Baby

as Kristy Briggs

1987
1986
Native Son

as Mary Dalton

1984
1984
Racing with the Moon

as Caddie Winger

1983
Lovesick

as Chloe Allen

1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as Snow White

1981
Ragtime

as Evelyn Nesbit

1980
Ordinary People

as Jeannine Pratt

1951

Writer

Producer

2019
The Chaperone

as Producer