Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth Lee McGovernis an American film, television, and theater actor, and musician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. Her other films include Ordinary People, Once Upon A Time In America, The Handmaid's Taleand The Wings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth18 July 1961
CityEvanston, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
As far as I can see women who have facelifts don't look younger, just weirder. You see them on screen with these tight, little porcelain faces - then the hand goes up to the face and it looks like it belongs to an alien. I find it really freaky.
So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.
Hollywood never suited me, I didn't ever feel comfortable with it, it took me a couple of years but I found where I was always meant to be... Chiswick!
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.
I love having the opportunity to explore a part for a great length of time, really get deeper and deeper into it, because you only have a chance to do that once or twice in a career.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.