FrameThrower · Actors · Elizabeth McGovern
Elizabeth McGovern
5 films · 259 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2017
Born 18 July 1961 · Evanston, Illinois, USA
Elizabeth McGovern is an American film, television, and theater actress.
In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Timothy Hutton.
The following year she completed her education as an actress at the American Conservatory Theatre and at The Juilliard School, and began to appear in plays, first Off-Broadway and later in famous theaters.
In 1981, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime.
In 1984, she starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niro's romantic…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 259 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1984–2017
- Theatre World Award1982
How their films are shot
Measured across 259 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elizabeth takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 57% of their frames are day, 42% low key — the look of the work Elizabeth takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 259 frames from Elizabeth McGovern's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.