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