Joan Plowright

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.

Cast

I Love You to Death

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

Baylene (voice)

Tea with Mussolini

Bringing Down the House

Mrs. Virginia Arness

George and the Dragon

Mother Superior

The Spiderwick Chronicles

Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick

Dennis the Menace

Mrs. Doyle-Counihan

Enchanted April

Last Action Hero

Britannia Hospital

Phyllis Grimshaw

Mrs. McConnahay

Drowning by Numbers

Cissie Colpitts 1

Back to the Secret Garden

Time Without Pity

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

Scrooge and Marley

The Entertainer

Brimstone & Treacle

The Diary of Anne Frank

Edith Frank-Holländer

A Place for Annie

The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Goose on the Loose

Beatrice Fairfield

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

Jeanne Vertefeuille

The Merchant of Venice

A Pin for the Butterfly

Bailey's Mistake

The Scarlet Letter

Harriet Hibbons

And a Nightingale Sang

The House of Bernarda Alba

The Return of the Native

Surviving Picasso

Françoise's Grandmother

Daphne Laureola

Frankie & Hazel

Phoebe Harkness

Tom's Midnight Garden

Mrs Bartholomew

Ms. Plushbottom (voice)

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Nothing Like a Dame

On Promised Land

The Birthday Party

The Importance of Being Earnest

A Dedicated Man

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

Moby Dick Rehearsed

A Young Actress /Pip

Laurence Olivier: a life