Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth Lee McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is 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 (1980), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Wings of the Dove (1997), and The Chaperone (2018).
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| Full name at birth | Elizabeth Lee McGovern
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| Claim to fame | Once Upon a Time in America,She's Having a Baby and Downton Abbey
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| Date of birth | 18 July 1961
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| Place of birth | Evanston, Illinois, USA
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| Occupation | Actress, Writer, Producer
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| Height | 5' 9" (175 cm)
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| Weight | 116 lbs (53 kg)
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| Net worth | $4,000,000 USD
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- Has a brother, Monty.
- Her younger sister Cammie McGovern is a novelist, whose latest novel [2006] is "Eye Contact."
- Was engaged to Sean Penn after falling in love on the set of Racing with the Moon (1984).
- Measurements: 34B-23-32 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
- As a young actress on the New York stage, McGovern was required in one play to pray over some candles that were set on a bed. Realizing that the bed had caught fire halfway through her monologue, McGovern kept talking while trying to pat out the flames. She thought she had the situation pretty well under control, when firefighters suddenly arrived onstage to clear the theater.
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