
Joan Plowright
Born October 28, 1929 · Brigg, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
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Bringing Down the House

I Love You to Death

Dance with Me

Jane Eyre

Nothing Like a Dame

Surviving Picasso

George and the Dragon

Widows' Peak

Avalon

Mr. Wrong

Revolution

Tea with Mussolini

I Am David

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

The Return of the Native

Tom's Midnight Garden

Enchanted April

Drowning by Numbers

A Place for Annie

Equus

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Merchant of Venice

Stalin

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Back to the Secret Garden

Goose on the Loose

Time Without Pity

Britannia Hospital

Twelfth Night

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

Laurence Olivier: A Life

Daphne Laureola

And a Nightingale Sang

The Importance of Being Earnest

A Pin for the Butterfly

The Dressmaker

Callas Forever

Uncle Vanya

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

Frankie & Hazel

The Entertainer

Brimstone & Treacle

Three Sisters

On Promised Land

Knife Edge

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

Global Heresy

The House of Bernarda Alba

Bailey's Mistake

A Dedicated Man

Hotel Sorrento

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

Scrooge and Marley


















