Joan Plowright
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
101 Dalmatians (1996)
as Nanny
Dennis the Menace (1993)
as Martha Wilson
Dinosaur (2000)
as Baylene (voice)
Last Action Hero (1993)
as Teacher
Curious George (2006)
as Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
Bringing Down the House (2003)
as Mrs. Virginia Arness
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
as Harriet Hibbons
Jane Eyre (1996)
as Mrs. Fairfax
George and the Dragon (2004)
as Mother Superior
Dance with Me (1998)
as Bea Johnson
I Love You to Death (1990)
as Nadja
Revolution (1985)
as Mrs. McConnahay
Widows' Peak (1994)
as Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
I Am David (2003)
as Sophie
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
as Mary Wallace
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self
Equus (1977)
as Dora Strang
Avalon (1990)
as Eva Krichinsky
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
as Cissie Colpitts
Mr. Wrong (1996)
as Mrs. Crawford
Twelfth Night (1970)
as Viola
Enchanted April (1991)
as Mrs Fisher
Surviving Picasso (1996)
as Françoise's Grandmother
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Phyllis Grimshaw
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
as Mrs. Linzer
Uncle Vanya (1963)
as Sonya
The Birthday Party (1987)
as Meg Bowles
Tom's Midnight Garden (1999)
as Mrs Bartholomew
Stalin (1992)
as Olga
Callas Forever (2002)
as Sarah Keller
Frankie & Hazel (2000)
as Phoebe Harkness
Time Without Pity (1957)
as Agnes Cole
The Entertainer (1960)
as Jean Rice
The Diary of Anne Frank (1980)
as Edith Frank-Holländer
A Place for Annie (1994)
as Dorothy
The Merchant of Venice (1973)
as Portia
A Pin for the Butterfly (1995)
as Grandma
The Return of the Native (1994)
as Frau Yeobright
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within (1998)
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1993)
as Mrs. Monro
Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
as Martha Sowerby
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
as Mrs. Palfrey
Three Sisters (1970)
as Masha
The Dressmaker (1988)
as Nellie
Laurence Olivier: A Life (1982)
as Self
Goose on the Loose (2006)
as Beatrice Fairfield
Global Heresy (2002)
as Lady Foxley
And a Nightingale Sang (1989)
as Mam
Daphne Laureola (1978)
as Lady Pitts
Knife Edge (2009)
as Marjorie Blake
Bailey's Mistake (2001)
as Aunt Angie
Hotel Sorrento (1995)
as Marge Morrisey
Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
as Norma Bates
Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955)
as A Young Actress /Pip
Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978)
as Rosa
Scrooge and Marley (2001)
as Narrator
On Promised Land (1994)
as Mrs. Appletree
The House of Bernarda Alba (1991)
as Poncia
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life (2018)
as Herself
The Importance of Being Earnest (1988)
as Lady Bracknell
A Dedicated Man (1982)
as Edith