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