Elizabeth McGovern

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1961-07-18 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Evanston, Illinois, USA

Elizabeth McGovern

Biography

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. 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 gangst...

Acting

1984

1989

Johnny Handsome

as Donna McCarty

1990

A Shock to the System

as Stella Anderson

2010

Kick-Ass

as Mrs. Lizewski

2000

The House of Mirth

as Mrs. Carry Fisher

1981

Ragtime

as Evelyn Nesbit

2002

Buffalo Soldiers

as Mrs. Berman

1993

1988

She's Having a Baby

as Kristy Briggs

1997

The Wings of the Dove

as Susan Stringham

1980

Ordinary People

as Jeannine Pratt

1987

1984

Racing with the Moon

as Caddie Winger

2001

Hawkins

as Susie Hawkins

2010

1983

Lovesick

as Chloe Allen

1994

The Favor

as Emily

1995

Wings of Courage

as Noëlle Guillaumet

2011

1986

Native Son

as Mary Dalton

1996

The Summer of Ben Tyler

as Celia Rayburn

2004

Remembering Ragtime

as Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage)

1997

Clover

as Sara Kate

2016

The Queen At 90

as Narrator

2007

Daphne

as Ellen Doubleday

2000

Manila

as Elizabeth

1996

Broken Glass

as Margaret Hyman

1993

The Changeling

as Beatrice-Joanna

1995

Broken Trust

as Janice Dillon

2015

Swung

as Dolly Adams

1993

2015

Unexpected

as Carolyn

2015

Woman in Gold

as Judge Florence-Marie Cooper

2024

And Mrs.

as Margaret

2016

Showing Roots

as Shirley

2001

2007

A Room with a View

as Mrs Honeychurch

2006

The Truth

as Donna

2018

The Commuter

as Karen MacCauley

1990

Tune in Tomorrow...

as Elena Quince

1992

Tales from Hollywood

as Helen Schwartz

2008

Inconceivable

as Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams

2019

2018

The Wife

as Elaine Mozell

2012

Screen Goddesses

as Narrator

2019

Downton Abbey

as Cora Crawley

2003

Thursday the 12th

as Candice Hopper

2022

2011

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

as Wallis Simpson (Voice)

Production

2019

The Chaperone

as Producer

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