80s Hollywood legend is unrecognisable with stunning silver hair transformation

Elizabeth McGovern, the Academy Award-nominated prima of the tiny and metallic surface is looking unrecognisable – debuting an all-new look for her latest tv project.

Elizabeth, 63, roseate to fame successful the 80s with her movie debut successful the 1980 household play Ordinary People – appearing alongside Donald Sutherland and Judd Hirsch.

From there, she starred successful the 1981 adaptation of Ragtime, which earned her an Academy Award information for Best Actress. She went connected to prima successful classics Once Upon a Time successful America (1984), The Bedroom Window (1987) and the archetypal adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale (1990).

Since then, she went connected to prima arsenic Cora Crawley successful the deed costume play bid Downton Abbey, reprising the relation successful the 2019 movie of the aforesaid name, and its 2022 sequel, A New Era.

Elizabeth has resurfaced portion filming her caller tv show, The Talamasca, which is based connected a bid of books from novelist Anne Rice. She stars arsenic bid regular Helen.

And, successful doing so, the histrion has debuted a striking caller look.

Pictures from the acceptable amusement Elizabeth clad successful all-black, her agelong consecutive hairsbreadth flowing successful stunning silver.

She is pictured with co-star Nicholas Denton, who plays the mysterious Guy Anatole.

The brace were filming scenes successful Manchester – doubling for Central Park, New York, wherever the bid is set. Variety has reported that the amusement volition absorption connected ‘the men and women liable for tracking and containing the witches, vampires, and different creatures scattered astir the globe.’

The Talamasca follows successful the footsteps of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire and Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches arsenic the latest foray into the Anne Rice universe.

Members of The Talamasca person already featured successful episodes of the preceding shows – and are expected to popular up again erstwhile play 1 premieres connected AMC and AMC+ successful precocious 2025.

Elizabeth is champion remembered for the jet-black hairsbreadth she wore passim her career, from her 1980s debut – aged lone 2.

In caller years, she has go champion known for playing Lady Grantham successful Downton Abbey and its movie sequels.

In summation to decades of movie and tv work, Elizabeth is besides the frontwoman of her ain band, Sadie and the Hotheads.

The radical formed successful 2007 aft her guitar teacher (Steve Nelson of the Nelson Brothers) encouraged her to instrumentality up songwriting.

Elizabeth and the set person released 5 albums successful total, with The Truth coming retired nether the star’s ain sanction successful 2019, and featuring a impermanent vocal show from 1 Samuel L. Jackson.

In 2015, Elizabeth shared her thoughts connected The X-Factor, telling PA however she recovered it to beryllium ‘painful’ viewing.

She explained: ‘I deliberation of course, it’s a large accidental for radical who person endowment to get exposure, but there’s a batch of dangers to the find of euphony by that benignant of process.

‘I find it precise achy to spot radical spell up and get slapped down truthful instantly and I deliberation it’s a unsafe wont to get into wherever everybody is judging wrong 2 seconds somebody’s philharmonic expression.’

She added: ‘My anticipation would beryllium that radical are unfastened to discovering euphony successful antithetic ways, to taking that hazard connected a caller set and truly sitting down and listening to them successful a unrecorded discourse that goes connected much than 2 seconds and a gong.’

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