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Elizabeth McGovern
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- #001
Elizabeth McGovern sings and plays guitar in her own band, Sadie & The Hot Heads. She has an electric Rickenbacker guitar.
- #002
Elizabeth McGovern has lived in West London, England, since 1992.
- #003
Elizabeth McGovern's band Sadie & The Hot Heads, founded in 2007, opened for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on 16 July 2013.
- #004
As a young actress on the New York stage, McGovern had to pray over candles placed on a bed in a play. Halfway through her monologue she noticed the bed had caught fire, and she kept talking while trying to put out the flames. When firefighters suddenly came on stage to clear the room, she thought the situation was fairly well under control.
- #005
Elizabeth McGovern left college while studying acting at the Juilliard School in order to accept her breakthrough role in the film Ordinary People (1980).
- #006
Elizabeth McGovern has two daughters, Matilda Curtis (born July 1993) and Grace Curtis (born 1998).
- #007
Elizabeth McGovern's paternal grandfather was the well-known adventurer William Montgomery McGovern. Her maternal great-grandfathers were the American diplomat Ethelbert Watts and the Admiral Charles P. Snyder, and her maternal great-great-grandfather was Congressman Charles P. Snyder.
- #008
Elizabeth McGovern currently lives in England, United Kingdom.
- #009
Elizabeth McGovern has a brother named "Monty," William Montgomery McGovern, who is a mathematics professor.
- #010
Elizabeth McGovern met her future husband Simon Curtis on Tales from Hollywood (1992), an episode of the popular BBC TV series Performance, which Curtis produced.
- #011
Elizabeth McGovern appeared alongside Richard Dreyfuss and David Suchet in the poorly received production of Complicit at the Old Vic, directed by Kevin Spacey.
- #012
Elizabeth McGovern counts Henry James and Edith Wharton among her favorite authors.
- #013
Elizabeth McGovern's younger sister, Cammie McGovern, is a novelist whose most recent novel [2006] is "Eye Contact."
- #014
Elizabeth McGovern appears in the British series "Downton Abbey," currently shown on PBS in the US.
- #015
Elizabeth McGovern recently appeared on British television in a sitcom written by her husband, Simon Curtis.
- #016
Elizabeth McGovern can be seen uncredited in The Making of 'Amadeus' (2002). In footage taken from screen tests (in costume, apparently testing for the role of Constanze) her face is blurred, but her name is clearly legible in the handwritten cast lists shown on screen in the shooting diary.
- #017
Elizabeth McGovern has Scottish, English and more distant German ancestry.
- #018
Elizabeth McGovern is the daughter of Katie and Bill McGovern.
- #019
Variety's Film Production section of 4 August 1982 shows that "Beginners" began shooting on 6 July 1982 in New York under the direction of Michael Gottlieb for Embassy Pictures, starring Elizabeth McGovern, Jane Alexander and Robert Carradine, and that production was suspended on 23 July 1982. There is no evidence that the film was completed.
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