Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern (Evanston, 18 July 1961) is an American actress. She was nominated for both an Oscar in 1982 as a Golden Globe for her supporting role asEvelyn Nesbit in the drama film Ragtime. In addition to acting she holds since 2008 working on the band Sadie And The Hotheads, of which she is the singer and one of the guitarists.

McGovern made his debut in 1980 on the silver screen as Jeannine Pratt in quadruple Oscar-winner Ordinary People. Itself a year later she was nominated for an Academy Award for her next film, Ragtime. It turned out the first of more than twenty film roles for McGovern, more than thirty television films including those in.

McGovern married in 1992 with Simon Curtis, an English Director and producer of television in particular movies. They had daughters Matilda Lee and five years younger Grace Wilkie. He worked as a producer on her (TV) Tales from Hollywood movies and Broken Glass. Cammie McGovern's younger sister is a writer whose multiple (fiction) books were issued. One of them is about the life of a girl in the shadow of her older sister, who works as an actress. ==Filmography[ Edit] == * Excluding ten television films ==Tv series[ Edit] == * Excluding one-off guest roles
 * Downton Abbey -Cora Crawley (2010, 2011, 2012, all episodes)
 * Freezing -Elizabeth (2008, two episodes)
 * Three Moons Over Milford -Laura Davis (2006, eight episodes)
 * The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire – Helen Shaw (2003, seven episodes)
 * The Scarlet Pimpernel -Marguerite Blakeney (3 episodes, 1999)
 * If Not for You -Jessie Kent (1995, eight episodes)