Elizabeth McGovern

In 1992 she married English producer and director Simon Curtis, with whom she currently lives in London, together with their two daughters. The true circumstances surrounding her death remain unclear. Besides cinema and theater, she has also played in several television films. Witnesses later recalled seeing several Gestapo officers entering her building shortly before her death. As a movie actress, big-eyed and slightly baby-faced McGovern has given preference to eccentric roles over those parts typically tailored for actresses of her age. It has also been asserted that she was murdered by being thrown from the window by Gestapo officers. Since then she has continued performing on stage between film assignments rather than concentrating on becoming a film star. Officially described as a suicide, it was theorised that she took her own life when her relationship with the Nazi leaders deteriorated due to her unwillingness to appear in propaganda films and more importantly to end her relationship with her Jewish lover.

The following years she completed her education as an actress at the American Conservatory Theatre and at The Juilliard School, and began to act in theater plays, first off-Broadway and later in famous theaters. When she died suddenly the German press revealed that she had died of epilepsy, however in later years it was discovered that she had died as a result of a fall from her hotel window. The next year she earned an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of the 19th-century actress Evelyn Nesbit in the movie Ragtime. A meeting with Adolf Hitler in the mid 1930s resulted in Müller being offered parts in films that promoted Nazi ideals. The movie won four Oscars. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Müller came to be regarded as the ideal Aryan woman, and particularly in light of Marlene Dietrich's move to Hollywood was courted and promoted as Germany's leading film actress. It was also Robert Redford's first film as director. She starred in more than 20 German films, including Viktor und Viktoria (1933), which was one of her biggest successes and which was remade as Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews.

While studying at this school, she was offered in 1980 a part in her first movie, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Timothy Hutton. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day, and along with Marlene Dietrich was seen to embody the fashionable Berlin society of her era. McGovern followed her advice and studied, first at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, and then at The Juilliard School in New York City. Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in the late 1920s in Berlin and quickly became popular. Agent Joan Scott saw her performance in The Skin of our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, was impressed by her talent, and recommended that she take acting lessons. Renate Müller (April 26, 1906 - October 1, 1937) was a German actress. McGovern started acting in plays in high school.

Later her family moved to Los Angeles, where her father, a university professor, accepted a position with UCLA. She was born in Evanston, Illinois. Elizabeth McGovern (born July 18, 1961) is an American movie and theater actress. Ordinary People (1980).

Heaven's Gate (1981). Ragtime (1981). Lovesick (1983). Racing with the Moon (1984).

Once Upon a Time in America (1984). Native Son (1986). Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987). The Bedroom Window (1987).

She's Having a Baby (1988). Johnny Handsome (1989). The Handmaid's Tale (1990). A Shock to the System (1990).

Women and Men (1990). Tune in Tomorrow (1990). Ashenden, Part 2 (1991). Me and Veronica (1992).

King of the Hill (1993). The Favor (1994). The Changeling (1994). Wings of Courage (1995).

Broken Trust (1995). Summer of Ben Tyler (1996). Clover (1997). The Wings of the Dove (1997).

The Misadventures Of Margaret (1998). Twice Upon a Yesterday (1998). The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999). Manila (2000).

Thursday the 12th (2000). The House of Mirth (2000). The Flamingo Rising (2001). Buffalo Soldiers (2002).