In Downton Abbey Elizabeth McGovern plays Lady Cora, mother of Mary, Edith and Sybil and wife to Lord Grantham, played by Hugh Bonneville. “Cora is the mistress of Downton, having taken on the reins from her mother-in-law, the Dowager, when she married Robert Crawley. She’s partly distinguished by the fact that she’s American and has married into the aristocracy, She’s an heiress who came to England looking for an aristocratic husband and has found a very happy marriage, raising three daughters in the process. She runs a massive household and copes remarkably well with everything, including the huge cultural shock of being thrown into a very singular world.
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Elizabeth Discussess Downton Abbey Series Two
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It's an unlikely line-up: electric guitar, acoustic guitar and bouzouki along with a drum kit played like percussion, and then a percussionist. Oh, and a bass player and backing singer. It's even more unlikely when you consider you're watching a Hollywood star singing in a south London pub on a Tuesday evening. Elizabeth McGovern is the singer, star of movies such as Once Upon A Time In America, and (now that she live here) the ITV Downton Abbey star cuts a delicate, well, actress-like figure.
The delicacy spills over into the songs, and into the quavering, girl-like quality of the vocals. But this isn't some wimpy, singer-songwriterish stuff, nor an actress who wants to prove she can. This is very much a rocking band who play a finely-structured, semi-acoustic kind of rootsy pop. To be honest, it's difficult to liken to anybody else, what with the musical hub of the Nelson Brothers-Simon and Steve, countryish record makers in their own right-creating-creating the bubbling soundscape along with Goldfrapp drummer Rowan Oliver's inventive playing.
The delicacy spills over into the songs, and into the quavering, girl-like quality of the vocals. But this isn't some wimpy, singer-songwriterish stuff, nor an actress who wants to prove she can. This is very much a rocking band who play a finely-structured, semi-acoustic kind of rootsy pop. To be honest, it's difficult to liken to anybody else, what with the musical hub of the Nelson Brothers-Simon and Steve, countryish record makers in their own right-creating-creating the bubbling soundscape along with Goldfrapp drummer Rowan Oliver's inventive playing.
Sadie and the Hotheads Discography
Sadie and The Hotheads - One Thing From The CD "I Can Wait"
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Elizabeth's Acting Career
Faerie Tale Theatre |
Native Son |
Early Acting Roles |
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction |
Me and Veronica |
King of the hill |
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