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Elizabeth McGovern
Birthday:
18 July 1961
Height:
178 cm
Biography
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.
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 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.
It's very tough when two creative people are together.
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.
I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.
It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
It's peaceful for people to know how their lives are going to be, pretty much.
I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
That feeling of being 19 or 20 and 'hot' in Hollywood was so intense.
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.
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.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.
Well, I have a band, "Sadie and the Hotheads", and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
Well, I have a band, "Sadie and the Hotheads", and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.
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.
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.
I have a terrible sense of direction.
I have a terrible sense of direction.
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realize that each road has its own rewards.
By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realize that each road has its own rewards.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
England as a culture has endured so much more than America has as a culture, so it's given them a different perspective.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
My family were all into classical music, and I found that very intimidating.
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
I've found acting on stage much more challenging than on screen.
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.
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.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
In London, I take the Tube everywhere.
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
We lack rituals in this modern world.
We lack rituals in this modern world.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'
Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.
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 still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.
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!
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!
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.
My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
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.
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.
On careers other than acting: "I probably would have become a veterinarian, or I might have lived on a ranch somewhere and raised horses, or I might have become more serious about painting, or I might have worked in a Burger King."
On careers other than acting: "I probably would have become a veterinarian, or I might have lived on a ranch somewhere and raised horses, or I might have become more serious about painting, or I might have worked in a Burger King."
Elizabeth McGovern
Daughter of a law professor at Northwestern University, she moved with her family to Los Angeles when he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.). She began acting in school plays at North Hollywood High, graduated from The Oakwood School and then continued her stage training at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco and the drama division of The Juilliard School in New York. Following a pleasant screen debut in Robert Redford's Oscar-winning Ordinary People (1980), McGovern gave a great performance as Evelyn Nesbit in Ragtime (1981) for which she earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. She has continued performing on stage between film assignments rather than concentrate on being a film star.
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