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Elizabeth McGovern

January 2023

  • Elizabeth McGovern and Dougray Scott in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Elizabeth McGovern cracks the whip

  • Elizabeth McGovern as Martha and Dougray Scott as George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review – Elizabeth McGovern and Dougray Scott face off

April 2022

  • Hugh Bonneville, left, and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey: A New Era.

    Downton Abbey: A New Era review – cheerfully risible second helping of snobby melodrama

    The second – and hopefully last – film spun off from Julian Fellowes’s successful TV series is as hammy, silly, and undeniably entertaining as ever

February 2022

  • Elizabeth McGovern and Haley Lu Richardson in The Chaperone.

    The Chaperone review – dishing dirt in well-turned hats and hair

    Semi-true story from Julian Fellowes sets churchgoing Kansas lady the challenge of keeping the girl about to become Louise Brooks in line in 1920s New York

January 2022

  • Mark Rylance as Dr Semmelweis.

    The week in theatre: Dr Semmelweis; Ava: The Secret Conversations – review

  • Elizabeth McGovern wrote the play and stars as Ava Gardner.

    Ava: The Secret Conversations review – Elizabeth McGovern captures Gardner’s Hollywood glamour

September 2019

  • ‘Lighthearted stuff’: Elizabeth McGovern and Hugh Bonneville in Downton Abbey.

    Downton Abbey review – mostly harmless TV spin-off

  • (2019) Michelle Dockery stars as Lady Mary Talbot and Matthew Goode as Henry Talbot in DOWNTON ABBEY, a Focus Features release. Credit: Jaap Buitendijk / Focus Features

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Downton Abbey review – ridiculous, vanilla-flavoured fun

June 2019

  • Lenny Henry (Elmore) and Martina Laird (Ruby) in King Hedley II

    The week in theatre: King Hedley II; Rutherford and Son; The Starry Messenger – review

    Lenny Henry and Aaron Pierre are supercharged in August Wilson’s epic while Roger Allam excels as a stern Edwardian patriarch

May 2019

  • Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth McGovern in Starry Messenger by Marc Brenner

    The Starry Messenger review – Broderick and McGovern face up to cosmic failures

    Kenneth Lonergan’s tale of astronomy and midlife misery makes fine use of an A-list cast but never truly explodes into life

September 2018

  • Antic energy … Nigel Lindsay, Amanda Abbington, Elizabeth McGover and Ralf Little in God of Carnage.

    God of Carnage review – sitcom spirit tames bullying drama's savagery

    With a starry cast that includes Elizabeth McGovern and Ralf Little, this revival of Yasmina Reza’s menace-filled comedy emphasises the laughs but loses the play’s savage edges in the process

October 2017

  • David Bowie and Bing Crosby

    David Hepworth on radio
    This week’s best radio: Bing Crosby and the road to rock’n’roll

    Elizabeth McGovern celebrates the 40th anniversary of Crosby’s last visit to the UK where he recorded his unlikely duet with David Bowie

December 2015

  • Elena Anaya and Elizabeth McGovern in Swung.

    Swung review – humour meets realism at the swingers' party

    Elizabeth McGovern stars as a swinging sensei who teaches a sexually faltering couple in this admirably serious film

October 2014

  • Downton Abbey series 4

    Christmas at Downton Abbey – the album is out next month

    The 45-track album will feature a festive version of the show’s theme tune as well as traditional hymns and carols

September 2014

  • Q&A: Elizabeth McGovern

    The Q&A
    Q&A: Elizabeth McGovern

    'If I could go back in time, where would I go? Walking my kids to primary school, holding their little hands'

March 2014

  • Elizabeth McGovern, Agenda

    Elizabeth McGovern interview: 'A TV show hasn't got the energy of a gig'

    Downton Abbey's Lady Grantham talks to Tim Lewis about her other life as a rock star and why she can't act like a lady on the road

February 2014

  • ‘Endless tiaras and feathers’: Elizabeth McGovern as Lady Cora with Lily James as Lady Rose in Downt

    Guardian Africa network
    Celebrity disaster relief - what not to do

    When Downton Abbey’s Lady Cora went to Sierra Leone, it turned into a PR disaster. Here’s some advice to charities

January 2014

  • A Wedding Cake, bride and groom standing back to back

    Do gooder done bad: top five celebrity blunders

    Celebrity partnerships can raise the profile of an organisation or a cause but as these examples show, an ill-informed A-lister can quickly lead to a D-class campaign

October 2012

  • Elizabeth McGovern

    Portrait of the artist
    Elizabeth McGovern, actor and musician – portrait of the artist

    'When I'm singing, my family often tell me to shut the hell up'

September 2012

  • The Long Good Read newspaper version

    Long reads of the week
    In case you missed it ... Hillsborough, Jools Holland, Elizabeth McGovern and the art of unfriending

    Like reading long stories from the Guardian and Observer? Then you'll love our Long Good Read site where you can find the Guardian and Observer long reads of the week

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