Cast & creator
Joan Plowright
Best known for Great Performances, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Two
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.
Also known as: Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier, Joan Ann Olivier, Dame Joan Plowright
62
film credits
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television credits
78
1944–2018 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (78)
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Great Performances
Self
1971
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Screen Two
Mrs. Monro
1985
ITV Playhouse
Lisa
1967
Omnibus
1967
The Oscars
Self
1953
Sunday Night Theatre
Adriana
1950Sunday Night Theatre
Phoebe
1950
101 Dalmatians
Nanny
1996
Last Action Hero
Teacher
1993
Dennis the Menace
Martha Wilson
1993
Dinosaur
Baylene (voice)
2000
Curious George
Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
2006
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
2008
Theatre Night
Meg
1985Theatre Night
Lady Bracknell
1985
Theatre Night
Arlette Le Boeuf
1957
The Scarlet Letter
Harriet Hibbons
1995
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mrs. Yeobright
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame
Dorothy
1951
Laurence Olivier Presents
Rosa
1976Laurence Olivier Presents
Lady Pitts
1976
Bringing Down the House
Mrs. Virginia Arness
2003
Dance with Me
Bea Johnson
1998
Nothing Like a Dame
Self
2018
Jane Eyre
Mrs. Fairfax
1996
Surviving Picasso
Françoise's Grandmother
1996
George and the Dragon
Mother Superior
2004
I Am David
Sophie
2003
Tea with Mussolini
Mary Wallace
1999Encore! Encore!
Marie Pinoni
1998
Widows' Peak
Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
1994
Avalon
Eva Krichinsky
1990
I Love You to Death
Nadja
1990
Revolution
Mrs. McConnahay
1985
Britannia Hospital
Phyllis Grimshaw
1982
Mr. Wrong
Mrs. Crawford
1996
The Importance of Being Earnest
Lady Bracknell
1988
A Place for Annie
Dorothy
1994
The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Mrs. Monro
1993
Drowning by Numbers
Cissie Colpitts
1988
The Return of the Native
Frau Yeobright
1994
Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
Mrs. Palfrey
2005
Back to the Secret Garden
Martha Sowerby
2000
The Diary of Anne Frank
Edith Frank-Holländer
1980
Stalin
Olga
1992
Knife Edge
Marjorie Blake
2009
Equus
Dora Strang
1977
Goose on the Loose
Beatrice Fairfield
2006
Enchanted April
Mrs Fisher
1991
Tom's Midnight Garden
Mrs Bartholomew
1999
Frankie & Hazel
Phoebe Harkness
2000
A Pyromaniac's Love Story
Mrs. Linzer
1995
Laurence Olivier: A Life
Self
1982
Time Without Pity
Agnes Cole
1957
Uncle Vanya
Sonya
1963
The Merchant of Venice
Portia
1973
A Pin for the Butterfly
Grandma
1995
Twelfth Night
Viola
1970
Callas Forever
Sarah Keller
2002
Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
Jeanne Vertefeuille
1998
And a Nightingale Sang
Mam
1989
The Dressmaker
Nellie
1988
Daphne Laureola
Lady Pitts
1978
A Dedicated Man
Edith
1982
Brimstone & Treacle
Norma Bates
1982
The House of Bernarda Alba
Poncia
1991
The Entertainer
Jean Rice
1960
Global Heresy
Lady Foxley
2002
Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
Herself
2018
Three Sisters
Masha
1970
On Promised Land
Mrs. Appletree
1994
Moby Dick—Rehearsed
A Young Actress /Pip
1955
Bailey's Mistake
Aunt Angie
2001
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Rosa
1978
The Birthday Party
Meg Bowles
1987
Scrooge and Marley
Narrator
2001
Hotel Sorrento
Marge Morrisey
1995