6 d. ago Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern admits she is 'over' the hit ITV series

The beloved franchise is returning for one final film this year.

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6 d. ago Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern admits she is 'over' the hit ITV series and confesses how she felt filming without the late Maggie Smith

Downton Abbey actress Elizabeth McGovern has said she is 'ready to move on' and leave the manor house behind, ahead of its final movie.

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7 d. ago Downton Abbey clash as star says she's 'over' series and 'ready to move on'

Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Cora Crawley in the hit franchise has opened up about filming the final film without Dame Maggie Smith

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7 d. ago Elizabeth McGovern says she is ‘over’ Downton Abbey and ‘ready to move on’

Downton Abbey is returning for a third and final film titled The Grand Finale.

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2 w. ago Elizabeth McGovern wishes her Downton Abbey character ‘had more interesting stories’

Actor said it was difficult to feel the ‘straitjacket’ of that period

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2 w. ago ‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co

As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava GardnerFor the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film should perhaps come with a warning. Everything in it is tinged with wistfulness – a goodbye to cherished characters and a farewell to a stately home that was a sturdy presence in a transient world. When the ITV series started in 2010, wasn’t life better? Did Elizabeth McGovern feel this too, the sense of time passing? After all, her character, Cora, is now ageing out of custodianship of Downton along with her husband, Lord Grantham, in favour of a younger generation and a changing era as the 1930s dawn.“No!” says McGovern, snapping me out of my melancholy. “I feel very excited that I’m going into a gratifying new phase in my career.” As well as reviving Cora, there is the play she has written, Ava: The Secret Conversations...

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