- Born
- Height5′ 9¾″ (1.77 m)
- 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 screen assignments rather than concentrate on being a film star, where her notable work in prolific plays, among others, also includes an acclaimed production of Alexi Kaye Campbell's "Sunset at the Villa Thalia" premiered in London at the National Theatre of Great Britain in May 2016, directed by Simon Godwin together with Ben Miles, Sam Crane, Pippa Nixon, Christos Callow, Glykeria Dimou and Eve Polycarpou in the brilliant cast..- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kieran Lee <[email protected]> and Markos
- SpouseSimon Curtis(December 12, 1992 - present) (2 children)
- Children
- ParentsWilliam Montgomery McGovern JrKatharine Wolcott
- RelativesWilliam Montgomery "Monty" McGovern(Sibling)Cammie McGovern(Sibling)
- Sings and plays guitar in her own band Sadie & The Hot Heads. Owns an electric Rickenbacker guitar.
- Has lived in West London (UK) since 1992.
- Her band Sadie & The Hot Heads (formed 2007) opened for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival Switzerland (July 16th, 2013).
- 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.
- Dropped out of college when she was studying acting at The Juilliard School in order to accept the ingénue role in Ordinary People (1980).
- [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.
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