
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

George and the Dragon

Bringing Down the House

The Scarlet Letter

Twelfth Night

I Love You to Death

Jane Eyre

Laurence Olivier: A Life

Widows' Peak

Revolution

The Merchant of Venice

Tea with Mussolini

I Am David

Equus

Time Without Pity

Dance with Me

Nothing Like a Dame

Surviving Picasso

Uncle Vanya

Drowning by Numbers

Stalin

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

The Return of the Native

Enchanted April

Frankie & Hazel

Back to the Secret Garden

Britannia Hospital

Mr. Wrong

Tom's Midnight Garden

A Place for Annie

Callas Forever

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

A Dedicated Man

The House of Bernarda Alba

The Dressmaker

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Entertainer

Knife Edge

Daphne Laureola

The Importance of Being Earnest

Global Heresy

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

Brimstone & Treacle

Three Sisters

Goose on the Loose

Bailey's Mistake

A Pin for the Butterfly

And a Nightingale Sang

Hotel Sorrento

Moby Dick—Rehearsed

The Birthday Party

Scrooge and Marley

On Promised Land

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
















