McGovern has been better served in her stage and TV roles, appearing off-Broadway in several productions, notably in Tina Howe's "Painting Churches" (1989), David Hare's "A Map of the World" (1990) and Shakespeare's "As You Like It" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Her TV debut was opposite Beau Bridges in the adaptation of "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit" on the HBO anthology "Women & Men: Stories of Seduction" (1990). She later played an FBI agent in "Broken Trust" (TNT, 1995). McGovern made the jump to series TV headlining the short-lived sitcom "If Not For You" (CBS, 1995). Portraying a woman engaged to a boring yuppie but fighting a growing attraction to a co-worker, she gave a deft and sweetly comic turn. Using her expressive face and throaty voice, she revealed a previously untapped comic sensibility. McGovern married English producer-director Simon Curtis in 1992.