Elizabeth McGovern
Acting
🎂 1961-07-18
Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American film, television, and theater actress. In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Timothy Hutton. The following year she completed her education as an actress at the American Conservatory Theatre and at The Juilliard School, and began to appear in plays, first Off-Broadway and later in famous theaters. In 1981, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime. In 1984, she starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niro's romantic interest, Deborah Gelly. In 1989, she played Mickey Rourke's girlfriend in Johnny Handsome, directed by Walter Hill, and the same year she appeared as a rebellious lesbian in Volker Schlöndorff's thriller The Handmaid's Tale.
Cast credits(88)
Faith Sutton
1999
California Mom (archive footage)
2009
Dame Celia Westholme
1989
Cora Crawley
2010
Self
2019
Self - Guest
2009
Self
1967
Laura Kendall
1989
Self
1988
Deborah Gelly
1984
Self
2019
Mrs. Lizewski
2010
Marmara
2010
Helen Schwartz
1991
Margaret Hyman
1991
Beatrice-Joanna
1991
Helen Brown
2019
Snow White
1982
Karen MacCauley
2018
Dolly Adams
2015
Self
1999
Self - Guest
2004
Cora Crawley
2025
Cora Crawley
2022
Cora Crawley
2019
Moira
1990
Donna McCarty
1989
Marguerite Blakeney
1999
Mrs. Berman
2002
Judge Florence-Marie Cooper
2015
Jeannine Pratt
1980
Denise
1987
Caddie Winger
1984
Kristy Briggs
1988
Ellen Doubleday
2007
Celia
1951
Edna Lee
1951
Helen
2025
Evelyn Nesbit
1981
Emily
1994
Vicki
1990
Stella Anderson
1990
Susan Stringham
1997
Lydia
1993
Mrs Honeychurch
2007
Donna
2006
Noëlle Guillaumet
1995
Elaine Mozell
2018
Margaret
2024
Jane
2011
Tallulah 'Tutu' Williams
2008
Mrs. Thatcham
2012
Mrs. Carry Fisher
2000
Norma
2019
Till Turner
1998
Carolyn
2015
2008
Mary Dalton
1986
1979
Shirley
2016
Self (archive footage)
2019
Elena Quince
1990
2009
Self
2014
Helen Schwartz
1992
2006
2003
Chloe Allen
1983
Margaret Hyman
1996
Elizabeth
2000
Aileen Somerville
1991
Narrator (voice)
2014
Edna Lee
2001
Sara Kate
1997
Candice Hopper
2003
Jessie Kent
1995
Fanny
1993
Celia Rayburn
1996
Diane
1998
Janice Dillon
1995
Susie Hawkins
2001
Evelyn Nesbit (archive footage)
2004
Beatrice-Joanna
1993
Snow White
1984
Wallis Simpson (Voice)
2011
Narrator
2016
Narrator
2012