These days, Elizabeth McGovern is known for her steady role as Cora Crawley across the six seasons, five Christmas specials, and three films of the "Downton Abbey" franchise. However, the famous actor's career has been much more turbulent than just that. Back in the 1980s, she embarked on a Hollywood career that launched her overnight from the status of high school drama nerd to Oscar winner. This jarring transition would leave McGovern floundering in fame. The complicated dynamics of the movie industry did nothing to ease her evolution, and she particularly struggled with the tension between Hollywood's undeniable glamour and cruel objectification of women.

McGovern's experience of showbiz's dark side was so negative that she eventually moved to the United Kingdom to reinvent herself. Bu

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