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