Elizabeth McGovern Net Worth

Elizabeth McGovern's Quotes

• [on work 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.
• 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.
• There is nothing in my life where I view myself as a 1920s person.
• I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.
• My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

Interesting Facts about Elizabeth McGovern

1. Her younger sister Cammie McGovern is a novelist, whose latest novel [2006] is "Eye Contact."
2. Dropped out of college when she was studying acting at The Juilliard School in order to accept the ingénue role in Ordinary People (1980).
3. 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.
4. Was engaged to Sean Penn after falling in love on the set of Racing with the Moon (1984).
5. Has a brother, William Montgomery McGovern, "Monty" who is a professor of mathematics.
6. Sings and plays guitar in her own band Sadie & The Hot Heads.
7. Has lived in West London (UK) since 1992.
8. Daughter of Katie and Bill McGovern.
9. Has two daughters named Matilda Curtis (b. July 1993) and Grace Curtis (b. 1998).
10. Counts Henry James and Edith Wharton among her favorite authors.
11. Now lives in England, UK [April 2006]
12. Is appearing in the British series "Downton Abbey" which is presently showing on PBS in the USA. [January 2011]
13. Recently appeared on British television in a situation comedy written by her husband Simon Curtis. [February 2008]
14. Appeared opposite Richard Dreyfuss and David Suchet in the disastrous production of Complicit directed by Kevin Spacey at the Old Vic. [January 2009]
15. Her band "Sadie and the Hotheads" (formed 2007) opened for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival Switzerland (July 16th, 2013).
16. Met husband-to-be Simon Curtis on Performance: Tales from Hollywood (1992), an episode of the popular BBC TV series Performance (1992), where Curtis was a producer.
17. She has Scottish, English, and more distant German, ancestry.
18. Can be seen in The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002), uncredited. In footage from her screen tests (in costume, apparently testing for the role of Constanze) her face has been blurred but her name can be read clearly on handwritten lists of actors that appear onscreen in a shooting log.
19. Her paternal grandfather, William Montgomery McGovern, was a prominent adventurer. Her maternal great-grandfathers were Ethelbert Watts, a U.S. diplomat, and Charles P. Snyder, an Admiral, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Congressman Charles P. Snyder.
20. The Film Production section of Variety, Aug 4, 1982, shows the film "Beginners" started filming July 6, 1982, in New York under direction of Michael Gottlieb, for Embassy Pictures, starring Elizabeth McGovern, Jane Alexander, Robert Carradine, filming suspended July 23, 1982. No evidence the film was ever completed.