Elizabeth McGovern
Birthday: 1961-07-18
Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
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 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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Once Upon a Time in America
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
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Johnny Handsome
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and parol...
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A Shock to the System
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has su...
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The Handmaid's Tale
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on acc...
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Kick-Ass
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a...
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The House of Mirth
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband ...
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Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...
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Buffalo Soldiers
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of...
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King of the Hill
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the stor...
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She's Having a Baby
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full re...
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The Wings of the Dove
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude ...
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Ordinary People
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad...
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The Bedroom Window
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The as...
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Racing with the Moon
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a s...
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Hawkins
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschea...
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Clash of the Titans
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god o...
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Lovesick
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient....
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The Favor
On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily ...
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Wings of Courage
In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable ai...
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Angels Crest
The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the...
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Native Son
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn...
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house ...
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The Summer of Ben Tyler
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitmen...
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Remembering Ragtime
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime"....
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Clover
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten die...
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The Queen At 90
"Downton Abbey" star Elizabeth McGovern narrates an intimate look at the life and reign of Queen Eli...
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Daphne
Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Bi...
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the...
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Manila
Due to a delayed flight, a group of German flight passengers had to wait in the hall of the airport ...
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Broken Glass
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and Phil...
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The Changeling
Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes tha...
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Broken Trust
A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of th...
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Swung
David’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His gir...
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Unexpected
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most prom...
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The Man with Rain in His Shoes
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of fal...
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Woman in Gold
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world f...
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And Mrs.
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway...
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Showing Roots
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Root...
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The Misadventures of Margaret
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an eroti...
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The Flamingo Rising
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a ...
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A Room with a View
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without...
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the...
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The Truth
An outrageous murder-mystery for the 'Me Generation'. Seven young strangers go to a spiritual retrea...
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The Commuter
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that t...
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Tune in Tomorrow...
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for g...
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Tales from Hollywood
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave the...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the...
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Inconceivable
A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that...
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The Chaperone
In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dance...
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The Wife
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated t...
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Screen Goddesses
With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish...
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Downton Abbey
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. ...
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JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes
An inside glimpse at the fairy tale wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996, inc...
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Thursday the 12th
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his ...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowa...
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Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her s...
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Switzerland
Patricia Highsmith’s late life solitude in the Swiss Alps is interrupted by Edward, a young literary...
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Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
Stars of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey reunite at London's Savoy Hotel to share memories an...
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