Joan Plowright
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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.
Known for
Credits
101 Dalmatians (1996)
as Nanny
Dinosaur (2000)
as Baylene (voice)
Dennis the Menace (1993)
as Martha Wilson
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
Last Action Hero (1993)
as Teacher
Jane Eyre (1996)
as Mrs. Fairfax
Curious George (2006)
as Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
as Harriet Hibbons
Dance with Me (1998)
as Bea Johnson
I Am David (2003)
as Sophie
Revolution (1985)
as Mrs. McConnahay
I Love You to Death (1990)
as Nadja
Equus (1977)
as Dora Strang
Bringing Down the House (2003)
as Mrs. Virginia Arness
Widows' Peak (1994)
as Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
Enchanted April (1991)
as Mrs Fisher
George and the Dragon (2004)
as Mother Superior
Avalon (1990)
as Eva Krichinsky
Mr. Wrong (1996)
as Mrs. Crawford
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
as Mary Wallace
Surviving Picasso (1996)
as Françoise's Grandmother
Stalin (1992)
as Olga
Uncle Vanya (1963)
as Sonya
The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1993)
as Mrs. Monro
Twelfth Night (1970)
as Viola
Callas Forever (2002)
as Sarah Keller
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
as Cissie Colpitts
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Phyllis Grimshaw
Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
as Mrs Bartholomew
Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
as Norma Bates
The Return of the Native (1994)
as Frau Yeobright
Global Heresy (2002)
as Lady Foxley
The Entertainer (1960)
as Jean Rice
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
as Mrs. Palfrey
The Importance of Being Earnest (1988)
as Lady Bracknell
Knife Edge (2009)
as Marjorie Blake
Goose on the Loose (2006)
as Beatrice Fairfield
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
as Mrs. Linzer
Frankie & Hazel (2000)
as Phoebe Harkness
A Place for Annie (1994)
as Dorothy
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
as Edith Frank-Holländer
Three Sisters (1970)
as Masha
Time Without Pity (1957)
as Agnes Cole
Daphne Laureola (1978)
as Lady Pitts
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self
Hotel Sorrento (1995)
as Marge Morrisey
The Dressmaker (1988)
as Nellie
The Birthday Party (1987)
as Meg Bowles
Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
as Martha Sowerby
Bailey's Mistake (2001)
as Aunt Angie
On Promised Land (1994)
as Mrs. Appletree
Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955)
as A Young Actress /Pip
The Merchant of Venice (1973)
as Portia
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
Laurence Olivier: a life (1982)
as Self
And a Nightingale Sang (1989)
as Mam
Scrooge and Marley (2001)
as Narrator
The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
as Poncia
A Pin for the Butterfly (1995)
as Grandma
A Dedicated Man (1982)
as Edith
Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978)
as Rosa
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life (2018)
as Herself