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Acting

Elizabeth McGovern

Career: Active from 1980 to 2025, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 33
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Ordinary People
83/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

Screen Actors Guild Awards · Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2013 · Won
Downton Abbey
Source: Wikidata
Academy Awards · Actress in a Supporting Role
1982 · Nominated · 54th Academy Awards
Ragtime
Source: Wikidata

Characters

6

The characters Elizabeth McGovern played, best-known titles first.

Elizabeth McGovern as Deborah Gelly

Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley

Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham

Elizabeth McGovern as Helen Brown

Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley

Elizabeth McGovern as Helen

Character images: TheTVDB

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 52 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Elizabeth McGovern Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.7, average 4.8
Uncanny
1.6, average 2.5
Violence
3.2, average 4.1
Contemporary Realism
4.6, average 5.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 7
Romantic Comedy 6
Historical Drama 3
Period Drama 3
Class Conflict 3
Social Commentary 3
Resilience 2
Psychological Thriller 2
Crime Thriller 2
Psychological Drama 2
Social Satire 2
Witty Dialogue 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

78

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

4 titles · average score 68

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

76

as Cora Crawley

Talamasca: The Secret Order

65

TV show · as Helen

And Mrs.

57

as Margaret

Downton Abbey: A New Era

75

as Cora Crawley

2010s

19 titles · average score 60

War of the Worlds

68

TV show · as Helen Brown

The Chaperone

59

as Norma

The Commuter

56

as Karen MacCauley

The Wife

76

as Elaine Mozell

Swung

37

as Dolly Adams

Unexpected

59

as Carolyn

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

44

as Mrs. Thatcham

Screen Goddesses

as Narrator

Angels Crest

41

as Jane

Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters

as Wallis Simpson (Voice)

Downton Abbey

86

TV show · as Cora Crawley

Kick-Ass

73

as Mrs. Lizewski

2000s

17 titles · average score 59

Modern Family

85

TV show · as California Mom (archive footage)

Freezing

64

TV show

A Room with a View

63

TV show · as Mrs Honeychurch

Daphne

61

as Ellen Doubleday

Three Moons Over Milford

43

TV show

The Truth

as Donna

Thursday the 12th

as Candice Hopper

The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire

TV show · as Helen Shaw

Buffalo Soldiers

65

as Mrs. Berman

The Flamingo Rising

47

as Edna Lee

Hawkins

as Susie Hawkins

Manila

as Elizabeth

1990s

22 titles · average score 59

The Scarlet Pimpernel

75

TV show · as Marguerite Blakeney

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

73

TV show · as Faith Sutton

The Wings of the Dove

74

as Susan Stringham

The Summer of Ben Tyler

68

as Celia Rayburn

TV show · as Jessie Kent

Wings of Courage

65

as Noëlle Guillaumet

Broken Trust

60

as Janice Dillon

The Favor

36

as Emily

Me and Veronica

as Fanny

King of the Hill

82

as Lydia

A Shock to the System

67

as Stella Anderson

The Handmaid's Tale

44

as Moira

1980s

14 titles · average score 67

Johnny Handsome

53

as Donna McCarty

Agatha Christie's Poirot

84

TV show · as Dame Celia Westholme

Tales from the Crypt

75

TV show · as Laura Kendall

She's Having a Baby

49

as Kristy Briggs

The Bedroom Window

60

as Denise

Native Son

56

as Mary Dalton

Once Upon a Time in America

83

as Deborah

Racing with the Moon

58

as Caddie Winger

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

71

as Snow White

Lovesick

41

as Chloe Allen

Ragtime

70

as Evelyn Nesbit

Ordinary People

83

as Jeannine Pratt

1970s

1 title

California Fever

TV show

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Celia / Edna Lee