Joan Plowright
Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier, DBE (28 October 1929 - 16 January 2025), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress, whose career has spanned over sixty years. Throughout her career she has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two BAFTA Awards. Joan Plowright is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.
Known for
Great Performances
Self
Screen Two
Mrs. Monro
The Oscars
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The Dressmaker
Nellie
101 Dalmatians
Nanny
Dinosaur
Baylene (voice)
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Fairfax
Goose on the Loose
Beatrice Fairfield
Dennis the Menace
Martha Wilson
Callas Forever
Sarah Keller
Surviving Picasso
Françoise's Grandmother
Last Action Hero
Teacher
Brimstone & Treacle
Norma Bates
Sunday Night Theatre
Adriana
Sunday Night Theatre
Phoebe
Curious George
Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
Mr. Wrong
Mrs. Crawford
Daphne Laureola
Lady Pitts
Three Sisters
Masha
Hotel Sorrento
Marge Morrisey
Equus
Dora Strang
Knife Edge
Marjorie Blake
A Place for Annie
Dorothy
Britannia Hospital
Phyllis Grimshaw
The Scarlet Letter
Harriet Hibbons
Time Without Pity
Agnes Cole
The Birthday Party
Meg Bowles
A Dedicated Man
Edith
Stalin
Olga
Laurence Olivier: a life
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mrs. Yeobright
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dorothy
I Love You to Death
Nadja
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Rosa
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
Herself
Dance with Me
Bea Johnson
The House of Bernarda Alba
Poncia
On Promised Land
Mrs. Appletree
Nothing Like a Dame
Self
Widows' Peak
Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
I Am David
Sophie
Enchanted April
Mrs Fisher
Twelfth Night
Viola
Frankie & Hazel
Phoebe Harkness
Revolution
Mrs. McConnahay
Scrooge and Marley
Narrator
Tea with Mussolini
Mary Wallace
Avalon
Eva Krichinsky
Bringing Down the House
Mrs. Virginia Arness
Laurence Olivier Presents
Rosa
Laurence Olivier Presents
Lady Pitts
George and the Dragon
Mother Superior
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
The Return of the Native
Frau Yeobright
Drowning by Numbers
Cissie Colpitts 1
Theatre Night
Meg
Theatre Night
Lady Bracknell
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Mrs. Linzer
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Mrs. Monro
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey
Bailey's Mistake
Aunt Angie
And a Nightingale Sang
Mam
Encore! Encore!
Back to the Secret Garden
Martha Sowerby
The Entertainer
Jean Rice
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell
The Merchant of Venice
Portia
Uncle Vanya
Sonya
The Diary of Anne Frank
Edith Frank-Holländer
Global Heresy
Lady Foxley
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
Jeanne Vertefeuille
A Pin for the Butterfly
Grandma
Moby Dick Rehearsed
A Young Actress /Pip
Golden Globe Awards
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