Joan Plowright

Biography

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.

Birthday

Oct 28, 1929

Place of birth

Brigg, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK

Deathday

Jan 16, 2025

Also known as

Joan Ann Plowright
Baroness Olivier
Joan Ann Olivier
Dame Joan Plowright

Credited in

As cast

I Love You to Death
As Nadja
Avalon
As Eva Krichinsky
Dinosaur
As Baylene (voice)
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
As Mrs. Linzer
Tea with Mussolini
As Mary Wallace
Bringing Down the House
As Mrs. Virginia Arness
George and the Dragon
As Mother Superior
101 Dalmatians
As Nanny
The Spiderwick Chronicles
As Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
Dennis the Menace
As Martha Wilson
Widows' Peak
As Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
Enchanted April
As Mrs Fisher
Last Action Hero
As Teacher
Britannia Hospital
As Phyllis Grimshaw
Revolution
As Mrs. McConnahay
Drowning by Numbers
As Cissie Colpitts
Knife Edge
As Marjorie Blake
Back to the Secret Garden
As Martha Sowerby
Equus
As Dora Strang
Time Without Pity
As Agnes Cole
I Am David
As Sophie
Global Heresy
As Lady Foxley
Jane Eyre
As Mrs. Fairfax
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
As Mrs. Palfrey
Callas Forever
As Sarah Keller
Dance with Me
As Bea Johnson
Scrooge and Marley
As Narrator
The Entertainer
As Jean Rice
Brimstone & Treacle
As Norma Bates
Hotel Sorrento
As Marge Morrisey
The Diary of Anne Frank
As Edith Frank-Holländer
Stalin
As Olga
A Place for Annie
As Dorothy
The Dressmaker
As Nellie
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
As Mrs. Monro
Goose on the Loose
As Beatrice Fairfield
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
As Jeanne Vertefeuille
The Merchant of Venice
As Portia
Twelfth Night
As Viola
A Pin for the Butterfly
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As Grandma
Three Sisters
As Masha
Mr. Wrong
As Mrs. Crawford
Bailey's Mistake
As Aunt Angie
The Scarlet Letter
As Harriet Hibbons
And a Nightingale Sang
As Mam
The House of Bernarda Alba
As Poncia
The Return of the Native
As Frau Yeobright
Surviving Picasso
As Françoise's Grandmother
Daphne Laureola
As Lady Pitts
Frankie & Hazel
As Phoebe Harkness
Tom's Midnight Garden
As Mrs Bartholomew
Curious George
As Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
As Rosa
Nothing Like a Dame
As Self
On Promised Land
As Mrs. Appletree
The Birthday Party
As Meg Bowles
The Importance of Being Earnest
As Lady Bracknell
Uncle Vanya
As Sonya
A Dedicated Man
As Edith
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
As Herself
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
As A Young Actress /Pip
Laurence Olivier: a life
As Self