Joan Plowright
Acting • Born 1929-10-28 – Died 2025-01-16
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.
Filmography
75 credits
I Love You to Death
Movie • 1990
Nadja
Avalon
Movie • 1990
Eva Krichinsky
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Movie • 1995
Mrs. Linzer
Dinosaur
Movie • 2000
Baylene (voice)
Tea with Mussolini
Movie • 1999
Mary Wallace
Bringing Down the House
Movie • 2003
Mrs. Virginia Arness
George and the Dragon
Movie • 2004
Mother Superior
101 Dalmatians
Movie • 1996
Nanny
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Movie • 2008
Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
Dennis the Menace
Movie • 1993
Martha Wilson
Widows' Peak
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
Enchanted April
Movie • 1991
Mrs Fisher
Last Action Hero
Movie • 1993
Teacher
Britannia Hospital
Movie • 1982
Phyllis Grimshaw
Revolution
Movie • 1985
Mrs. McConnahay
Drowning by Numbers
Movie • 1988
Cissie Colpitts
Knife Edge
Movie • 2009
Marjorie Blake
Back to the Secret Garden
Movie • 2000
Martha Sowerby
Equus
Movie • 1977
Dora Strang
Time Without Pity
Movie • 1957
Agnes Cole
I Am David
Movie • 2003
Sophie
Global Heresy
Movie • 2002
Lady Foxley
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Fairfax
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Movie • 2005
Mrs. Palfrey
Callas Forever
Movie • 2002
Sarah Keller
Dance with Me
Movie • 1998
Bea Johnson
Scrooge and Marley
Movie • 2001
Narrator
The Entertainer
Movie • 1960
Jean Rice
Brimstone & Treacle
Movie • 1982
Norma Bates
Hotel Sorrento
Movie • 1995
Marge Morrisey
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie • 1980
Edith Frank-Holländer
Stalin
Movie • 1992
Olga
A Place for Annie
Movie • 1994
Dorothy
The Dressmaker
Movie • 1988
Nellie
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Monro
Goose on the Loose
Movie • 2006
Beatrice Fairfield
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
Movie • 1998
Jeanne Vertefeuille
The Merchant of Venice
Movie • 1973
Portia
Twelfth Night
Movie • 1970
Viola
A Pin for the Butterfly
Movie • 1995
Grandma
Three Sisters
Movie • 1970
Masha
Mr. Wrong
Movie • 1996
Mrs. Crawford
Bailey's Mistake
Movie • 2001
Aunt Angie
The Scarlet Letter
Movie • 1995
Harriet Hibbons
And a Nightingale Sang
Movie • 1989
Mam
The House of Bernarda Alba
Movie • 1991
Poncia
The Return of the Native
Movie • 1994
Frau Yeobright
Surviving Picasso
Movie • 1996
Françoise's Grandmother
Daphne Laureola
Movie • 1978
Lady Pitts
Frankie & Hazel
Movie • 2000
Phoebe Harkness
Tom's Midnight Garden
Movie • 1999
Mrs Bartholomew
Curious George
Movie • 2006
Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Movie • 1978
Rosa
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie • 2018
Self
On Promised Land
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Appletree
The Birthday Party
Movie • 1987
Meg Bowles
The Importance of Being Earnest
Movie • 1988
Lady Bracknell
Uncle Vanya
Movie • 1963
Sonya
A Dedicated Man
Movie • 1982
Edith
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
Movie • 2018
Herself
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
Movie • 1955
A Young Actress /Pip
Laurence Olivier: a life
Movie • 1982
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mrs. Yeobright
Encore! Encore!
TV • 1998
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Rosa
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Lady Pitts
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Dorothy
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Theatre Night
TV • 1985
Meg
Theatre Night
TV • 1985
Lady Bracknell
Screen Two
TV • 1985
Mrs. Monro
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Adriana
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Phoebe