Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern is an acclaimed American actress and producer known for her work in film and television. She gained widespread recognition for her role as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, in the hit series Downton Abbey. With a career spanning several decades, she is noted... Read More
Known for
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
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)
In the middle of his daily commute, insurance salesman Michael MacCauley is contacted by a mysterious stranger who forces him to uncover the identity...
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| Year | Title | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |
Talamasca: The Secret OrderGuy Anatole joins the clandestine world of the Talamasca, an international spy agency for the immortal universe, as he searches... |
Helen | |
| 2025 |
Downton Abbey: The Grand FinaleWhen Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household... |
Cora Crawley | |
| 2025 |
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand FinaleStars of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey reunite at London's Savoy Hotel to share memories and behind-the-scenes tales, plus... |
Self | |
| 2024 |
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 | |
| 2022 |
Downton Abbey: A New EraThe Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager... |
Cora Crawley | |
| 2019 |
War of the WorldsWhen astronomers detect a transmission from another galaxy, it is definitive proof of intelligent extra-terrestrial life. The world’s population waits... |
Helen Brown | |
| 2019 |
A Little Late with Lilly SinghThe comedian, actress, social media sensation, producer and author of "How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life,"... |
Self | |
| 2019 |
Downton AbbeyThe beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from... |
Cora Crawley | |
| 2019 |
The Kelly Clarkson ShowKelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and... |
Self | |
| 2019 |
JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost TapesAn inside glimpse at the fairy tale wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996, including never-before-seen... |
Self (archive footage) | |
| 2019 |
The ChaperoneIn the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dancer on her... |
Norma | |
| 2018 |
The CommuterA businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his... |
Karen MacCauley | |
| 2017 |
The WifeA wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive... |
Elaine Mozell | |
| 2016 |
Showing RootsSet in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it... |
Shirley | |
| 2016 |
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 | |
| 2015 |
UnexpectedAn inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students... |
Carolyn | |
| 2015 |
SwungDavid’s life is on the slide: he’s broke, in the middle of a divorce and ‘can’t get it up’. His... |
Dolly Adams | |
| 2015 |
Woman in GoldMaria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. |
Judge Florence-Marie Cooper | |
| 2014 |
Civil War: The Untold StoryRecounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually... |
Narrator (voice) | |
| 2014 |
The KumarsHaving suffered hard during the economic downturn, The Kumars are now living in a flat in Hounslow behind the shop... |
Self | |
| 2012 |
Screen GoddessesWith the beginnings of Hollywood, the star system was born with an archetypal bad girl - the vampish Theda Bara... |
Narrator | |
| 2012 |
Cheerful Weather for the WeddingEngland, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the... |
Mrs. Thatcham | |
| 2011 |
Angels CrestThe small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly... |
Jane | |
| 2011 |
Wallis Simpson: The Secret LettersThis film examines recently discovered letters written by socialite Wallis Simpson that reveal her secret love, and chart her fear... |
Wallis Simpson (Voice) | |
| 2010 |
Downton AbbeyA chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in... |
Cora Crawley | |
| 2010 |
Kick-AssDave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero,... |
Mrs. Lizewski | |
| 2010 |
Clash of the TitansBorn of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god... |
Marmara | |
| 2009 |
10 Minute TalesThe biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive... |
Ex-Wife | |
| 2009 |
Modern FamilyThe 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) | |
| 2009 |
Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenBravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities. |
Self - Guest | |
| 2008 |
InconceivableA physician who helps his clients bring new life into the world is accused of an ethical breach that's also... |
Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams | |
| 2008 |
A Room with a ViewWhen Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and... |
Mrs Honeychurch | |
| 2008 |
FreezingForty-somethings Elizabeth and Matt are a glamorous and successful couple – or at least they would be if either of... |
Unknown character | |
| 2007 |
A Room with a ViewWhen Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and... |
Mrs Honeychurch | |
| 2007 |
DaphneSet during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her... |
Ellen Doubleday | |
| 2006 |
Three Moons Over MilfordWith a cosmic explosion threatening Earth's existence, the residents of the picturesque small town of Milford have taken their lives... |
Unknown character | |
| 2006 |
The TruthAn outrageous murder-mystery for the 'Me Generation'. Seven young strangers go to a spiritual retreat for a journey of personal... |
Donna | |
| 2004 |
Big Fat QuizPresenter Jimmy Carr oversees a panel of top-name celebrities in this year end quiz show where they compete to see... |
Self - Guest | |
| 2004 |
Remembering RagtimeMemories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime". |
Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage) | |
| 2003 |
The Brotherhood of Poland, New HampshireThe Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire is an American drama series created by David E. Kelley that aired on CBS.... |
Unknown character | |
| 2003 |
Thursday the 12thIn this two-part Rashomon-esque mini-series, a TV journalist investigates a rich politician and his family after a dead body is... |
Candice Hopper | |
| 2002 |
Buffalo SoldiersA criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall. |
Mrs. Berman | |
| 2001 |
HawkinsHawkins was an original film for BBC Television about a man who lives a double life, as a Nietzschean Philosophy... |
Susie Hawkins | |
| 2001 |
The Flamingo RisingWhen Hubert Lee decides to open the world's largest drive-in movie theater across the street from a funeral parlor, a... |
Edna Lee | |
| 2000 |
The House of MirthIn early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself... |
Mrs. Carry Fisher | |
| 2000 |
ManilaDue to a delayed flight, a group of German flight passengers had to wait in the hall of the airport... |
Elizabeth | |
| 1999 |
Law & Order: Special Victims UnitIn the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate... |
Faith Sutton | |
| 1999 |
Loose WomenA panel of four women discuss topical issues, ranging from daily politics and current affairs to celebrity gossip. |
Self | |
| 1999 |
The Scarlet PimpernelA series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set in 1793 during the... |
Marguerite Blakeney | |
| 1998 |
The Misadventures of MargaretA timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her... |
Till Turner | |
| 1998 |
The Man with Rain in His ShoesVictor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out... |
Diane | |
| 1997 |
CloverSara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to... |
Sara Kate | |
| 1997 |
The Wings of the DoveKate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of... |
Susan Stringham | |
| 1996 |
The Summer of Ben TylerSet early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power.... |
Celia Rayburn | |
| 1996 |
Broken GlassAdaptation of Arthur Miller's play set in Brooklyn 1938, focusing on the marriage of Sylvia and Phillip Gellburg against the... |
Margaret Hyman | |
| 1995 |
If Not for YouIf Not For You is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 18 until October 9, 1995. |
Jessie Kent | |
| 1995 |
Broken TrustA scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench,... |
Janice Dillon | |
| 1995 |
Wings of CourageIn 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service... |
Noëlle Guillaumet | |
| 1994 |
The FavorOn the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce her... |
Emily | |
| 1993 |
The ChangelingJust days before her wedding, Beatrice-Joanna has a chance encounter with Alsemero, and realizes that she has met her one... |
Beatrice-Joanna | |
| 1993 |
Me and VeronicaTwo sisters share a disturbing family secret. |
Fanny | |
| 1993 |
King of the HillBased on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling... |
Lydia | |
| 1992 |
Tales from HollywoodA slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during... |
Helen Schwartz | |
| 1991 |
AshendenFour-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the... |
Aileen Somerville | |
| 1991 |
PerformanceAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. |
Margaret Hyman | |
| 1991 |
PerformanceAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. |
Helen Schwartz | |
| 1991 |
PerformanceAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances. |
Beatrice-Joanna | |
| 1990 |
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 | |
| 1990 |
Women and Men: Stories of SeductionAn erotic anthology based on classic short stories, chronicling the complicated relations between the sexes: a salesman seduces a woman... |
Vicki | |
| 1990 |
A Shock to the SystemWhen experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a... |
Stella Anderson | |
| 1990 |
The Handmaid's TaleIn a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now... |
Moira | |
| 1989 |
Johnny HandsomeA career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled... |
Donna McCarty | |
| 1989 |
Tales from the CryptCadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the... |
Laura Kendall | |
| 1989 |
Agatha Christie's PoirotFrom England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits... |
Dame Celia Westholme | |
| 1988 |
LIVE with Kelly and MarkA 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 | |
| 1988 |
LIVE with Kelly and MarkA 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 | |
| 1988 |
She's Having a BabyJake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage... |
Kristy Briggs | |
| 1987 |
The Bedroom WindowBaltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim... |
Denise | |
| 1986 |
Native SonIn 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a... |
Mary Dalton | |
| 1984 |
Snow White and the Seven DwarfsSnow White must flee from her evil stepmother. She's taken in by the lovable seven dwarves. Will the wicked queen... |
Snow White | |
| 1984 |
Once Upon a Time in AmericaA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once... |
Deborah | |
| 1984 |
Racing with the MoonIn a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time... |
Caddie Winger | |
| 1983 |
LovesickSigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient. |
Chloe Allen | |
| 1982 |
Faerie Tale TheatreA live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales. |
Snow White | |
| 1981 |
RagtimeA young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity,... |
Evelyn Nesbit | |
| 1981 |
Chytilová Versus FormanAn intellectual match between two dramatically different artists, one permanently unsure and frustrated and questioning everything, the other an astonishing... |
Self | |
| 1980 |
Ordinary PeopleBeth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is... |
Jeannine Pratt | |
| 1979 |
California FeverCalifornia Fever is an American teen drama series that ran on CBS in 1979. The show featured a group of... |
Unknown character | |
| 1967 |
OmnibusOmnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the... |
Self | |
| 1951 |
Hallmark Hall of FameLong-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,... |
Edna Lee | |
| 1951 |
Hallmark Hall of FameLong-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,... |
Celia |
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Elizabeth McGovern is best known for her role as Cora Crawley in Downton Abbey and as Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime. She has also appeared in various films and television series throughout her career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.