Joan Plowright
Acting
Biography
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.
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Great Performances
1971
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Omnibus
1967
Screen Two
1985
ITV Playhouse
1967
The Oscars
1953
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
101 Dalmatians
1996
The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008
Dinosaur
2000
Dennis the Menace
1993
Last Action Hero
1993
Theatre Night
1957
Curious George
2006
Jane Eyre
1996
The Scarlet Letter
1995
Bringing Down the House
2003
Dance with Me
1998
Avalon
1990
Widows' Peak
1994
George and the Dragon
2004
I Am David
2003
Revolution
1985
Twelfth Night
1970
Theatre Night
1985
All for Love
1982
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Laurence Olivier Presents
1976
Tea with Mussolini
1999
Stalin
1992
Drowning by Numbers
1988
I Love You to Death
1990
Surviving Picasso
1996
Mr. Wrong
1996
Enchanted April
1991
Time Without Pity
1957
Encore! Encore!
1998
Equus
1977
Britannia Hospital
1982
Laurence Olivier: A Life
1982
Daphne Laureola
1978
Uncle Vanya
1963
Callas Forever
2002
Knife Edge
2009
Nothing Like a Dame
2018
The Return of the Native
1994
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
1995
The Birthday Party
1987
Back to the Secret Garden
2000
The Entertainer
1960
A Place for Annie
1994
And a Nightingale Sang
1989
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993
Frankie & Hazel
2000
Goose on the Loose
2006
Global Heresy
2002
A Pin for the Butterfly
1995
Bailey's Mistake
2001
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
1955
Three Sisters
1970
The Merchant of Venice
1973
Brimstone & Treacle
1982
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
2005
Tom's Midnight Garden
1999
The Dressmaker
1988
The Diary of Anne Frank
1980
A Dedicated Man
1982
The Importance of Being Earnest
1988
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
1998
The House of Bernarda Alba
1991
Hotel Sorrento
1995
On Promised Land
1994
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978
Scrooge and Marley
2001
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
2018