Elizabeth McGovern
Acting
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.
Born: July 18, 1961
Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Once Upon a Time in America
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 ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Agatha Christie's Poirot
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
Faerie Tale Theatre
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Downton Abbey
A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.
Tales from the Crypt
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
Modern Family
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Big Fat Quiz
Presenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see who can answer the most questions correctly.
Filmography
as Helen
as Cora Crawley
as Margaret
as Cora Crawley
as Helen Brown
as Cora Crawley
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Norma
as Elaine Mozell
as Karen MacCauley
as Shirley
as Narrator
as Carolyn
as Dolly Adams
as Judge Florence-Marie Cooper
as Narrator
as Mrs. Thatcham
as Jane
as Wallis Simpson (Voice)
as Cora Crawley
as Mrs. Lizewski
as Marmara
as Ex-Wife
as California Mom (archive footage)
as Self - Guest
as Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams
as Mrs Honeychurch
as Ellen Doubleday
as Donna
as Self - Guest
as Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage)
as Candice Hopper
as Mrs. Berman
as Susie Hawkins
as Edna Lee
as Mrs. Carry Fisher
as Elizabeth
as Faith Sutton
as Self
as Marguerite Blakeney
as Till Turner
as Diane
as Sara Kate
as Susan Stringham
as Celia Rayburn
as Margaret Hyman
as Janice Dillon
as Noëlle Guillaumet
as Emily
as Beatrice-Joanna
as Fanny
as Lydia
as Helen Schwartz
as Helen Schwartz
as Margaret Hyman
as Beatrice-Joanna
as Elena Quince
as Stella Anderson
as Moira
as Donna McCarty
as Laura Kendall
as Dame Celia Westholme
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Kristy Briggs
as Denise
as Mary Dalton
as Snow White
as Deborah Gelly
as Caddie Winger
as Chloe Allen
as Snow White
as Evelyn Nesbit
as Jeannine Pratt
as Self
as Celia
as Edna Lee