I turned down the opportunity to be in some films that went on to be blockbusters.

On American TV Elizabeth McGovern appeared in a 2006 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Harm" in which her character of Dr. First broadcast on BBC Four it was also shown on BBC2 in February 2008. In 1984 Elizabeth McGovern starred in Sergio Leone's gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niro's romantic interest Deborah Gelly.