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
It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting married and starting a family, that sort of thing.
Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.
I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
I have a terrible sense of direction.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.