Elizabeth McGovern
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.
86 acting credits
Acting · 86
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Modern Family
2009
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Downton Abbey
2010
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Omnibus
1967
Loose Women
1999
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
Performance
1991
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire
2003
Talamasca: The Secret Order
2025
Clash of the Titans
2010
War of the Worlds
2019
Kick-Ass
2010
Big Fat Quiz
2004
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
2025
The Commuter
2018
Swung
2015
Downton Abbey
2019
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
10 Minute Tales
2009
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1999
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
Woman in Gold
2015
Ordinary People
1980
Johnny Handsome
1989
If Not for You
1995
The Kumars
2014
California Fever
1979
The Bedroom Window
1987
Ashenden
1991
Buffalo Soldiers
2002
Ragtime
1981
She's Having a Baby
1988
The Wings of the Dove
1997
Three Moons Over Milford
2006
The Wife
2017
A Shock to the System
1990
Freezing
2008
The House of Mirth
2000
The Favor
1994
Racing with the Moon
1984
A Room with a View
2008
And Mrs.
2024
Lovesick
1983
King of the Hill
1993
Native Son
1986
The Man with Rain in His Shoes
1998
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
1990
A Room with a View
2007
Civil War: The Untold Story
2014
Unexpected
2015
Showing Roots
2016
Wings of Courage
1995
The Chaperone
2019
Inconceivable
2008
Me and Veronica
1993
Tune in Tomorrow...
1990
Thursday the 12th
2003
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998
Broken Trust
1995
Daphne
2007
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
2012
Clover
1997
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1984
The Truth
2006
Broken Glass
1996
Angels Crest
2011
The Summer of Ben Tyler
1996
Downton Abbey Celebrates the Grand Finale
2025
Manila
2000
Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters
2011
Hawkins
2001
Tales from Hollywood
1992
The Changeling
1993
The Flamingo Rising
2001
Remembering Ragtime
2004
JFK Jr. and Carolyn's Wedding: The Lost Tapes
2019
Screen Goddesses
2012
The Queen At 90
2016