Elizabeth McGovern

Q: Has Elizabeth McGovern won any awards?

Elizabeth McGovern has received several nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Ragtime. She has also been nominated for a BAFTA and won a Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the Downton Abbey cast.

Q: What was Elizabeth McGovern's first film?

Elizabeth McGovern made her film debut in 1980 with the movie Ordinary People. Her role in the film marked the beginning of her successful acting career.

Q: What are some of Elizabeth McGovern's successful films?

Some of Elizabeth McGovern's successful films include Ragtime, The Wings of the Dove, and the Downton Abbey film adaptations. Each film showcased her versatility and depth as an actress.

Q: Is Elizabeth McGovern involved in any other artistic pursuits?

Yes, Elizabeth McGovern is also a musician. She performs with her band, The Sadie and the Hotheads, and has released several albums, showcasing her talents beyond acting.

Q: What is Elizabeth McGovern's estimated net worth?

Elizabeth McGovern's estimated net worth is around $4 million. This reflects her successful career in both film and television, along with her music endeavors.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Elizabeth McGovern's filmography?

A notable milestone in Elizabeth McGovern's filmography is her role in the acclaimed series Downton Abbey, which significantly raised her profile and earned her a global fanbase.

Q: What is Elizabeth McGovern's background?

Elizabeth McGovern was born in Evanston, Illinois. She studied acting at the University of California, Los Angeles, before embarking on her successful career in film and television.

Known for

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

IMDb 8.3 / 10

1984 / Crime, Drama / 229 min

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...

The Commuter (2018)

IMDb 6.3 / 10

2018 / Action, Mystery / 104 min

In the middle of his daily commute, insurance salesman Michael MacCauley is contacted by a mysterious stranger who forces him to uncover the identity...

Name

Elizabeth McGovern

Height

5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Born

18 July 1961, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Spouses

Sir John B. Williams (1992–present)

Children

2 children, Grace and Matilda

Parents

Elizabeth McGovern, William McGovern

Estimated Net Worth

$4 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	TV Talamasca: The Secret Order Guy Anatole joins the clandestine world of the Talamasca, an international spy agency for the immortal universe, as he searches...	Helen	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2025	Movie Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household...	Cora Crawley	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2025	Movie Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale Stars of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey reunite at London's Savoy Hotel to share memories and behind-the-scenes tales, plus...	Self	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2024	Movie And Mrs. When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiancé drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway – vowing to overcome...	Margaret	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2022	Movie Downton Abbey: A New Era The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager...	Cora Crawley	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2019	TV War of the Worlds When astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits...	Helen Brown	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2019	TV A Little Late with Lilly Singh The comedian, actress, social media sensation, producer and author of "How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life,"...	Self	TMDB 3.4 / 10
2019	Movie Downton Abbey The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from...	Cora Crawley	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	TV The Kelly Clarkson Show Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and...	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2019	Movie 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, including never-before-seen...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2019	Movie The Chaperone In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her...	Norma	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2018	Movie The Commuter A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his...	Karen MacCauley	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2017	Movie The Wife A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive...	Elaine Mozell	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2016	Movie Showing Roots Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it...	Shirley	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2016	Movie The Queen At 90 "Downton Abbey" star Elizabeth McGovern narrates an intimate look at the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II as we...	Narrator	Not rated
2015	Movie Unexpected An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students...	Carolyn	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie Swung David’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His...	Dolly Adams	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2015	Movie Woman in Gold Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.	Judge Florence-Marie Cooper	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2014	TV Civil War: The Untold Story Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2014	TV The Kumars Having suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	Movie Screen Goddesses With the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara...	Narrator	Not rated
2012	Movie Cheerful Weather for the Wedding England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the...	Mrs. Thatcham	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2011	Movie Angels Crest The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly...	Jane	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2011	Movie Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters This film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear...	Wallis Simpson (Voice)	Not rated
2010	TV Downton Abbey A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in...	Cora Crawley	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2010	Movie Kick-Ass Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero,...	Mrs. Lizewski	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2010	Movie Clash of the Titans Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god...	Marmara	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	TV 10 Minute Tales The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive...	Ex-Wife	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	TV Modern Family The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into...	California Mom (archive footage)	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2009	TV Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie Inconceivable A physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also...	Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2008	TV A Room with a View When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and...	Mrs Honeychurch	Not rated
2008	TV Freezing Forty-somethings Elizabeth and Matt are a glamorous and successful couple – or at least they would be if either of...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2007	Movie A Room with a View When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and...	Mrs Honeychurch	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2007	Movie Daphne Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her...	Ellen Doubleday	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2006	TV Three Moons Over Milford With a cosmic explosion threatening Earth's existence, the residents of the picturesque small town of Milford have taken their lives...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	Movie The Truth An outrageous murder-mystery for the 'Me Generation'. Seven young strangers go to a spiritual retreat for a journey of personal...	Donna	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	TV Big Fat Quiz Presenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie Remembering Ragtime Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".	Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage)	Not rated
2003	TV The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire is an American drama series created by David E. Kelley that aired on CBS....	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2003	Movie Thursday the 12th In this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is...	Candice Hopper	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2002	Movie Buffalo Soldiers A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.	Mrs. Berman	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2001	Movie Hawkins Hawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy...	Susie Hawkins	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2001	Movie The Flamingo Rising When Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a...	Edna Lee	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2000	Movie The House of Mirth In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself...	Mrs. Carry Fisher	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	Movie Manila Due to a delayed flight, a group of German flight passengers had to wait in the hall of the airport...	Elizabeth	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	TV 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...	Faith Sutton	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Loose Women A panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip.	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
1999	TV The Scarlet Pimpernel A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set in 1793 during the...	Marguerite Blakeney	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1998	Movie The Misadventures of Margaret A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her...	Till Turner	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1998	Movie 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 falling out...	Diane	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1997	Movie Clover Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to...	Sara Kate	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1997	Movie The Wings of the Dove Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of...	Susan Stringham	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1996	Movie The Summer of Ben Tyler Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power....	Celia Rayburn	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie Broken Glass Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and Phillip Gellburg against the...	Margaret Hyman	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1995	TV If Not for You If Not For You is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 18 until October 9, 1995.	Jessie Kent	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1995	Movie Broken Trust A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench,...	Janice Dillon	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1995	Movie Wings of Courage In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service...	Noëlle Guillaumet	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1994	Movie The Favor On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce her...	Emily	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1993	Movie The Changeling Just days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one...	Beatrice-Joanna	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie Me and Veronica Two sisters share a disturbing family secret.	Fanny	TMDB 3.3 / 10
1993	Movie King of the Hill Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling...	Lydia	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1992	Movie Tales from Hollywood A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during...	Helen Schwartz	TMDB 3.0 / 10
1991	TV Ashenden Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the...	Aileen Somerville	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Margaret Hyman	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Helen Schwartz	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1991	TV Performance An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.	Beatrice-Joanna	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Tune in Tomorrow... Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro...	Elena Quince	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1990	Movie Women and Men: Stories of Seduction An erotic anthology based on classic short stories, chronicling the complicated relations between the sexes: a salesman seduces a woman...	Vicki	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1990	Movie A Shock to the System When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a...	Stella Anderson	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1990	Movie The Handmaid's Tale In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now...	Moira	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1989	Movie Johnny Handsome A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled...	Donna McCarty	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1989	TV Tales from the Crypt Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the...	Laura Kendall	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1989	TV 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...	Dame Celia Westholme	TMDB 8.2 / 10
1988	TV LIVE with Kelly and Mark A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	TV LIVE with Kelly and Mark A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	Movie She's Having a Baby Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage...	Kristy Briggs	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1987	Movie The Bedroom Window Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim...	Denise	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1986	Movie Native Son In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a...	Mary Dalton	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1984	Movie 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 wicked queen...	Snow White	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1984	Movie 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...	Deborah	TMDB 8.4 / 10
1984	Movie Racing with the Moon In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time...	Caddie Winger	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1983	Movie Lovesick Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.	Chloe Allen	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1982	TV Faerie Tale Theatre A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.	Snow White	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1981	Movie Ragtime A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity,...	Evelyn Nesbit	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Chytilová Versus Forman An intellectual match between two dramatically different artists, one permanently unsure and frustrated and questioning everything, the other an astonishing...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1980	Movie Ordinary People Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is...	Jeannine Pratt	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1979	TV California Fever California Fever is an American teen drama series that ran on CBS in 1979. The show featured a group of...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1967	TV Omnibus Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Edna Lee	TMDB 8.8 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Celia	TMDB 8.8 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	Movie The Chaperone In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2010	Movie Nature Amazing Places Hawaii Program One KILAUEA: MOUNTAIN OF FIRE Ecosystems on Big Island Face No Small Challenge Kilauea, violent and beautiful, destructive and...	Writer Writing	Not rated

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2025 / TMDB 2.5

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2025 / TMDB 7.1

And Mrs.

2024 / TMDB 5.4

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2022 / TMDB 7.2

Downton Abbey

2019 / TMDB 7.1

JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes

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Elizabeth McGovern

Known for

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

The Commuter (2018)

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Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

And Mrs.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey

JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes

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