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Name: Elizabeth McGovern  
   
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Date of Birth: 18th July 1961
   
Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
   
Profession: Actress
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American movie and theater actress. She was born in Evanston, Illinois. Later her family moved to Los Angeles, where her father, a university professor, accepted a position with UCLA.

McGovern started acting in plays in high school. Agent Joan Scott saw her performance in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, was impressed by her talent, and recommended that she take acting lessons. McGovern followed her advice and studied, first at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and then at The Juilliard School in New York City.

While studying at this school, she was offered in 1980 a part in her first movie, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Timothy Hutton. It was also Robert Redford's first film as director. The movie won four Oscars. The next year she earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the 19th-century actress Evelyn Nesbit in the movie Ragtime. The following years she completed her education as an actress at the American Conservatory Theatre and at The Juilliard School, and began to act in theater plays, first off-Broadway and later in famous theaters. Since then she has continued performing on stage between film assignments rather than concentrating on becoming a film star. As a movie actress, big-eyed and slightly baby-faced McGovern has given preference to eccentric roles over those parts typically tailored for actresses of her age. Besides cinema and theater, she has also played in several television films.

In 1992 she married English producer and director Simon Curtis, with whom she currently lives in London, together with their two daughters.

Filmography

  • Buffalo Soldiers (2002)
  • The Flamingo Rising (2001)
  • The House of Mirth (2000)
  • Thursday the 12th (2000)
  • Manila (2000)
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999)
  • Twice Upon a Yesterday (1998)
  • The Misadventures Of Margaret (1998)
  • The Wings of the Dove (1997)
  • Clover (1997)
  • Summer of Ben Tyler (1996)
  • Broken Trust (1995)
  • Wings of Courage (1995)
  • The Changeling (1994)
  • The Favor (1994)
  • King of the Hill (1993)
  • Me and Veronica (1992)
  • Ashenden, Part 2 (1991)
  • Tune in Tomorrow (1990)
  • Women and Men (1990)
  • A Shock to the System (1990)
  • The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
  • Johnny Handsome (1989)
  • She's Having a Baby (1988)
  • The Bedroom Window (1987)
  • Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
  • Native Son (1986)
  • Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
  • Racing with the Moon (1984)
  • Lovesick (1983)
  • Ragtime (1981)
  • Heaven's Gate (1981)
  • Ordinary People (1980)

Selected Stage Work

  • The Scarlet Letter...at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester (2005)... as Hester Prynne

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