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 Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). She began acting in school plays at North Hollywood High, graduated from The Oakwood School and then continued her stage training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York. Following a pleasant screen debut in Robert Redford's Oscar-winning Ordinary People (1980), McGovern gave a great performance as Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime (1981) for which she earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She has continued performing on stage between film assignments rather than concentrate on being a film star.
Bio:
Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). She began acting in school plays at North Hollywood High, graduated from The Oakwood School and then continued her stage training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York. Following a pleasant screen debut in Robert Redford's Oscar-winning Ordinary People (1980), McGovern gave a great performance as Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime (1981) for which she earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She has continued performing on stage between film assignments rather than concentrate on being a film star.
Tivia:
Sings and plays guitar in her own band Sadie & The Hot Heads. Owns an electric Rickenbacker guitar.Was engaged to Sean Penn after falling in love on the set of Racing with the Moon (1984).Has lived in West London (UK) since 1992.Her band Sadie & The Hot Heads (formed 2007) opened for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival Switzerland (July 16th, 2013).As a young actress on the New York stage, McGovern was required in one play to pray over some candles that were set on a bed. Realizing that the bed had caught fire halfway through her monologue, McGovern kept talking while trying to pat out the flames. She thought she had the situation pretty well under control, when firefighters suddenly arrived onstage to clear the theater.Dropped out of college when she was studying acting at The Juilliard School in order to accept the ing��nue role in Ordinary People (1980).Has two daughters named Matilda Curtis (b. July 1993) and Grace Curtis (b. 1998).Now lives in England, UK (April 2006)Her paternal grandfather, William Montgomery McGovern, was a prominent adventurer. Her maternal great-grandfathers were Ethelbert Watts, a U.S. diplomat, and Charles P. Snyder, an Admiral, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Congressman Charles P. Snyder.Has a brother, William Montgomery McGovern, "Monty" who is a professor of mathematics.Appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss and David Suchet in the disastrous production of Complicit directed by Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic. (January 2009)Met husband-to-be Simon Curtis on Tales from Hollywood (1992), an episode of the popular BBC TV series Performance (1991), where Curtis was a producer.Her younger sister Cammie McGovern is a novelist, whose latest novel [2006] is "Eye Contact."Counts Henry James and Edith Wharton among her favorite authors.Recently appeared on British television in a situation comedy written by her husband Simon Curtis. (February 2008)Can be seen in The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002), uncredited. In footage from her screen tests (in costume, apparently testing for the role of Constanze) her face has been blurred but her name can be read clearly on handwritten lists of actors that appear onscreen in a shooting log.Is appearing in the British series "Downton Abbey" which is presently showing on PBS in the USA. (January 2011)She has Scottish, English, and more distant German, ancestry.Daughter of Katie and Bill McGovern.The Film Production section of Variety, Aug 4, 1982, shows the film "Beginners" started filming July 6, 1982, in New York under direction of Michael Gottlieb, for Embassy Pictures, starring Elizabeth McGovern, Jane Alexander, Robert Carradine, filming suspended July 23, 1982. No evidence the film was ever completed.The San Ysidro (San Diego, California) McDonald's massacre occurred on her 23rd birthday. |
| Name: |
Elizabeth McGovern |
Type: |
Actress,Writer,Producer (IMDB) |
| Area: |
All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Writer,Producer |
| Products for sale: |
Actress,Writer,Producer |
| Model rank: |
200 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 03:53:03 |
Elizabeth McGovern profile
| Height: |
5' 9?' (1.77 m) |
| Biography: |
Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). She began acting in school plays at North Hollywood High, graduated from T |
| Trivia: |
Sings and plays guitar in her own band Sadie & The Hot Heads. Owns an electric Rickenbacker guitar.Was engaged to Sean Penn after falling in love on the set of Racing with the Moon (1984).Has lived in West London (UK) since 1992.Her band Sadie & The Hot Heads (formed 2007) opened for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival Switzerland (July 16th, 2013).As a young actress on the New York stage, McGovern was required in one play to pray over some candles that were set on a bed. Realizing that the bed had caught fire halfway through her monologue, McGovern kept talking while trying to pat out the flames. She thought she had the situation pretty well under control, when firefighters suddenly arrived onstage to clear the theater.Dropped out of college when she was studying acting at The Juilliard School in order to accept the ing��nue role in Ordinary People (1980).Has two daughters named Matilda Curtis (b. July 1993) and Grace Curtis (b. 1998).Now lives in England, UK (April 2006)Her paternal grandfather, William Montgomery McGovern, was a prominent adventurer. Her maternal great-grandfathers were Ethelbert Watts, a U.S. diplomat, and Charles P. Snyder, an Admiral, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Congressman Charles P. Snyder.Has a brother, William Montgomery McGovern, "Monty" who is a professor of mathematics.Appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss and David Suchet in the disastrous production of Complicit directed by Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic. (January 2009)Met husband-to-be Simon Curtis on Tales from Hollywood (1992), an episode of the popular BBC TV series Performance (1991), where Curtis was a producer.Her younger sister Cammie McGovern is a novelist, whose latest novel [2006] is "Eye Contact."Counts Henry James and Edith Wharton among her favorite authors.Recently appeared on British television in a situation comedy written by her husband Simon Curtis. (February 2008)Can be seen in The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002), uncredited. In footage from her screen tests (in costume, apparently testing for the role of Constanze) her face has been blurred but her name can be read clearly on handwritten lists of actors that appear onscreen in a shooting log.Is appearing in the British series "Downton Abbey" which is presently showing on PBS in the USA. (January 2011)She has Scottish, English, and more distant German, ancestry.Daughter of Katie and Bill McGovern.The Film Production section of Variety, Aug 4, 1982, shows the film "Beginners" started filming July 6, 1982, in New York under direction of Michael Gottlieb, for Embassy Pictures, starring Elizabeth McGovern, Jane Alexander, Robert Carradine, filming suspended July 23, 1982. No evidence the film was ever completed.The San Ysidro (San Diego, California) McDonald's massacre occurred on her 23rd birthday. |
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[on work other than acting] I probably would have become a veterinarian, or I might have lived on a ranch somewhere and raised horses, or I might have become more serious about painting, or I might have worked in a Burger King.
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Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.
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There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
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I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
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My job now is to work hard and learn all I can. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Writer,Producer |
| Others works: |
(2008) Portraying Jacqueline Kennedy in Martin Sherman's play "Aristo" at the Chichester Festival Theatre (UK)
Hamlet (1992). Tragedy (revival). Written by William Shakespeare. Directed by Paul Weidner. Criterion Center Stage Right: 2 Apr |
| Spouse: |
Simon Curtis (December 12, 1992 - present) (2 children) |
| Children: |
Matilda CurtisGrace Curtis |
| Parents: |
William Montgomery McGovern Jr
Katharine Wolcott |
| Relatives: |
William Montgomery \"Monty\" McGovern (Sibling)
Cammie McGovern (Sibling) |
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