Elizabeth McGovern
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.6502 |
| Birthday | 1961-07-18 |
| Place of Birth | Evanston, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Элизабет Макговерн, 伊麗莎白·麥高文, الیزابت مک گاورن, |
1984
Once Upon a Time in America
8.384/5985
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...
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Once Upon a Time in America
1989
Johnny Handsome
6.3/288
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straig...
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Johnny Handsome
1990
A Shock to the System
6.458/142
When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.
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A Shock to the System
1990
The Handmaid's Tale
6.096/271
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
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The Handmaid's Tale
2010
Kick-Ass
7.124/12316
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, trainin...
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Kick-Ass
2000
The House of Mirth
6.2/85
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her fri...
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The House of Mirth
1981
Ragtime
7.005/183
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
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Ragtime
2002
Buffalo Soldiers
6.3/345
A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Buffalo Soldiers
1993
King of the Hill
6.8/168
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a h...
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King of the Hill
1988
She's Having a Baby
5.938/216
Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their paren...
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She's Having a Baby
1997
The Wings of the Dove
6.6/122
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's dece...
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The Wings of the Dove
1980
Ordinary People
7.437/687
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the e...
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Ordinary People
1987
The Bedroom Window
6.3/143
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that sa...
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The Bedroom Window
1984
Racing with the Moon
6.3/93
In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. He...
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Racing with the Moon
2001
Hawkins
0/0
Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy Lecturer and as a Detective who is fa...
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Hawkins
2010
Clash of the Titans
5.916/6642
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus vo...
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Clash of the Titans
1983
Lovesick
5.5/12
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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Lovesick
1994
The Favor
4.8/53
On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce her old flame Tom, so she can get all th...
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The Favor
1995
Wings of Courage
6.5/22
In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the youn...
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Wings of Courage
2011
Angels Crest
5.7/49
The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rock...
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Angels Crest
1986
Native Son
5/13
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teen...
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Native Son
2012
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
5.4/49
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances th...
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
1996
The Summer of Ben Tyler
5.7/3
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying...
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The Summer of Ben Tyler
2004
Remembering Ragtime
0/0
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
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Remembering Ragtime
1997
Clover
4.5/4
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, C...
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Clover
2016
The Queen At 90
0/0
"Downton Abbey" star Elizabeth McGovern narrates an intimate look at the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II as we celebrate Her Majesty's 90th birth...
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The Queen At 90
2007
Daphne
5.8/23
Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband...
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Daphne
1990
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
4.1/9
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
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Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
2000
Manila
5/3
Due to a delayed flight, a group of German flight passengers had to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd was quite mixed, ranging from...
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Manila
1996
Broken Glass
0/0
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and Phillip Gellburg against the backdrop of Kristallnacht...
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Broken Glass
1993
The Changeling
0/0
Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one true love. To marry the man...
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The Changeling
1995
Broken Trust
5.2/5
A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.
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Broken Trust
2015
Swung
5.413/63
David’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His girlfriend, Alice, is his rock, but the magazine she...
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Swung
1993
Me and Veronica
1/2
Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.
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Me and Veronica
2015
Unexpected
5.701/87
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely fri...
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Unexpected
1998
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
4.838/40
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love wit...
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The Man with Rain in His Shoes
2015
Woman in Gold
7.3/1447
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
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Woman in Gold
2024
And Mrs.
5.4/16
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of t...
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And Mrs.
2016
Showing Roots
5.6/6
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
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Showing Roots
1998
The Misadventures of Margaret
4.7/6
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a...
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The Misadventures of Margaret
2001
The Flamingo Rising
4.4/5
When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a feud erupts between Lee and Turn...
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The Flamingo Rising
2007
A Room with a View
5.3/17
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...
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A Room with a View
2025
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
7.096/249
When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of soci...
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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2006
The Truth
0/0
An outrageous murder-mystery for the 'Me Generation'. Seven young strangers go to a spiritual retreat for a journey of personal growth, taking in jeal...
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The Truth
2018
The Commuter
6.362/4618
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those...
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The Commuter
1990
Tune in Tomorrow...
5.4/29
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia,...
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Tune in Tomorrow...
1992
Tales from Hollywood
1/2
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwri...
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Tales from Hollywood
1984
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
6/4
Snow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the wicked queen be able to get rid of her rival?
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2008
Inconceivable
5.8/7
A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also criminal in this independent drama. Dr. Fr...
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Inconceivable
2019
The Chaperone
6.2/33
In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her fame-seeking journey to New York City.
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The Chaperone
2017
The Wife
7.063/1118
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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The Wife
2012
Screen Goddesses
0/0
With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara - and the good girl - the blazingly si...
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Screen Goddesses
2019
Downton Abbey
7.131/1251
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England w...
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Downton Abbey
2019
JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes
0/0
An inside glimpse at the fairy tale wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996, including never-before-seen footage from the private...
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JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes
2003
Thursday the 12th
0/0
In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is found on their propert...
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Thursday the 12th
2022
Downton Abbey: A New Era
7.194/605
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a...
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
2011
Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
0/0
This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear as she found hersel...
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Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
2025
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
2.5/2
Stars of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey reunite at London's Savoy Hotel to share memories and behind-the-scenes tales, plus a sneak peek at th...
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