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