{"id":5499,"date":"2021-12-14T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mi5recordings.com\/new\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:00:22","slug":"5499-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mi5recordings.com\/new\/5499-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth McGovern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_60449\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1RfrDZ6KoCo?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/mi5recordings.com&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=1&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=3&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Elizabeth McGovern - The Truth (excerpt)\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<br clear=\"all\"\/><br \/>\nAcademy Award nominee, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey, Ragtime, Ordinary People) is also an accomplished musician, singer and song writer. Mi5 Recordings (Universal Music Group) have signed Ms. McGovern to a distribution deal and this is the release of her new album &#8220;The Truth&#8221;, produced by Grammy Award winning Guitarist\/songwriter Kipper Eldridge (Sting, Gary Numan) and Ted Mason (former Modern English member, guitarist, multi genre producer &#8211; Pharrell Williams, Ne-Yo, Common, Mary J Blige, Jeff Beck, Cheb Khaled). Very Special thanks to the guest musicians on the Album include: Samuel L Jackson (The Suburbs), James Walsh (Cold Old World), Jake Morrel (The Truth), Barry Walsh (Accordian) and Smokey Hormel.<\/p>\n<p>Downton Abbey, the movie, followed eight television seasons, and was a phenomenon. Elizabeth McGovern played Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham. Elizabeth has also embarked on many new projects including the Downton Abbey 2nd movie, and her own act, Sadie and the Hot Heads. She is also working with Ted Mason on independent new releases due out in Fall.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth\u2019s influences in music are not held captive to a certain genre and she immerses herself in Folk, American, Latin\/Tango, Country and Rock in her song writing. Mr. Mason has worked with some of the biggest international World music artists (Youssou N\u2019dour, the late Hugh Masekela, Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha, U-Cef) and will bring those elements to the songwriting. Mr. Mason is also a bebop\/classical and lead guitarist and will bring to the songwriting those elements to create a Pop explosion of diversity in a Rock, Rai\/African, Americana\/Country, Folk genre.<\/p>\n<p>For the last several years, Elizabeth fronted and wrote songs for the band \u2018Sadie and the Hotheads\u2019 that included The Nelson Brothers and collaborations with a wide range of exciting artists, including Samuel L Jackson, Laurent Voulzy, James Walsh, Smokey Hormel, Jake Morrel, plus Barry Walsh and, Danica Chapman, Terl Bryant, Nick Lacey, Andrew (Wal) Coughlan! They have toured USA and the UK and opened for Mike and the Mechanics on a 5 week UK tour and for Sting at the Montreux Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth McGovern\u2019s career spans theatre, film and television and music. Elizabeth is most well known, at the moment, for her role as Lady Cora in multiple award winning television show \u2018Downton Abbey\u2019, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy and has won 3 SAG ensemble awards.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Elizabeth starred at The National Theatre in the new Alexi Kaye Campbell play \u2018Sunset At The Villa Thalia\u2019. McGovern has also just completed production on \u2018The Commuter\u2019 opposite Liam Neeson and Bjorn Runge\u2019s \u2018The Wife\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth has also appeared in films such as Matthew Vaughn\u2019s \u2018Kick Ass\u2019 and Warner Brothers\u2019 \u2018Clash of The Titans\u2019 alongside Ralph Fiennes. She received an Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination for her role in \u2018Ragtime\u2019, her second feature film, following her debut in Robert Redford\u2019s \u2018Ordinary People\u2019 whilst she was still a student at Julliard. Other major film roles have included starring opposite Robert De Niro in \u2018Once Upon a Time in America\u2019 and Sean Penn and Nicolas Cage in \u2018Racing with the Moon\u2019. She has worked with the great film directors Steven Soderburgh, Curtis Hanson, Milos Forman, Sergio Leone, Robert Redford, and Simon Curtis (her husband). Most recently Elizabeth has just finished filming \u2018The Chaperone\u2019 which she co- produced with Downton Abbey script write Julian Fellows and also stars in as Norma Carlyle. The start of filming for Downton Abbey, The Movie, is set to begin this September.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth has had a great presence on the West End and New York Stage, winning the 2013 Will Award from the Shakespeare Theatre Company for her work in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Other notable productions include \u2018The Misanthrope\u2019 at the Young Vic, \u2018Three Days of Rain\u2019 at the Donmar and David Mamet\u2019s \u2018The Shawl\u2019 at the Arcola Theatre, new and old plays on and off Broadway and for Joseph Papp\u2019s Public Theatre. In September of this year, Elizabeth returned to Broadway for the first time in 25 years starring in JB Priestley\u2019s \u2018Time and the Conways.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award nominee, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey, Ragtime, Ordinary People) is also an accomplished musician, singer and song writer. 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