
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.
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Avalon

Bringing Down the House

The Scarlet Letter

George and the Dragon

Twelfth Night

Jane Eyre

I Love You to Death

Laurence Olivier: A Life

Time Without Pity

Revolution

Nothing Like a Dame

Surviving Picasso

Tea with Mussolini

I Am David

Dance with Me

Widows' Peak

Equus

The Return of the Native

The Merchant of Venice

Enchanted April

Drowning by Numbers

Callas Forever

Tom's Midnight Garden

Britannia Hospital

Uncle Vanya

Stalin

Mr. Wrong

Frankie & Hazel

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

A Place for Annie

A Dedicated Man

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

The Diary of Anne Frank

Back to the Secret Garden

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

The Entertainer

Knife Edge

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

The House of Bernarda Alba

Brimstone & Treacle

The Importance of Being Earnest

Bailey's Mistake

Global Heresy

The Dressmaker

Daphne Laureola

A Pin for the Butterfly

Three Sisters

And a Nightingale Sang

Goose on the Loose

Hotel Sorrento

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

Scrooge and Marley

On Promised Land

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

The Birthday Party
















