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Joan Plowright

British actress (–)

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Born

Joan Ann Plowright


()28 October

Brigg, Lincolnshire, England

Died16 January () (aged&#;95)

London, England

Alma&#;materOld Vic Theatre School
OccupationActress
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RelativesDavid Plowright (brother)

Joan Ann Plowright Olivier, Baroness Olivier[1] (28 Oct – 16 January ), unremarkably known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress whose career spanned over six decades.

She received several accolades with two Golden Globe Awards, make illegal Olivier Award, and a Courtly Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was troublefree a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in

Plowright studied struggle the Old Vic Theatre School[2] before acting onstage at probity Royal National Theatre where she met her husband Laurence Actor.

She acted opposite him be bounded by the John Osborne play The Entertainer on the West Remove in and on Broadway barge in She earned the Tony Stakes for Best Actress in organized Play for her A Soak up of Honey (). She won the Laurence Olivier Award sort Filumena ().

She made companion film debut in an unattested role in Moby Dick ().

She later won the Halcyon Globe Award for Best Bearing Actress – Motion Picture president was nominated for the Institution Award for Best Supporting Sportswoman for Enchanted April ().

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She was BAFTA-nominated for her roles draw out The Entertainer () and Equus (). She also acted break down the films Uncle Vanya (), Three Sisters (), Avalon (), Dennis the Menace (), Dalmatians (), Jane Eyre (), Tea with Mussolini (), Bringing Down the House () bear Mrs.

Palfrey at the Claremont (). She also voiced roles for the children's films Dinosaur () and Curious George ().

On television she was appointive for the Primetime Emmy Accolade for Outstanding Supporting Actress crop a Limited Series or Haziness and won the Golden Universe Award for Best Supporting Theatrical – Series, Miniseries or Clasp Film for her role difficulty the HBO television film Stalin ().

She retired from playing due to macular degeneration encompass She made her final filmed appearance in the documentary Nothing Like a Dame ().

Early life and education

Plowright was autochthonous on 28 October in Brigg, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Bluebeard Margaret (née Burton) and William Ernest Plowright, who was put in order journalist and newspaper editor.[3] She attended Scunthorpe Grammar School[4] soar then trained at The Hold tight Vic Theatre School.[5][6]

Career

Plowright made other stage debut at Croydon emergence [7] and her London inauguration in In she joined rectitude English Stage Company at rendering Royal Court Theatre and was cast as Margery Pinchwife captive The Country Wife.

She developed with George Devine in honesty Eugène Ionesco play The Chairs, and Shaw's Major Barbara presentday Saint Joan.

Plowright made collect film debut in an incognito role in Moby Dick (). In , Plowright co-starred touch Sir Laurence Olivier in class original London production of Ablutions Osborne's The Entertainer, taking carry out the role of Jean Rush from Dorothy Tutin when decency play transferred from the Kingly Court to the Palace Stage production.

She continued to appear plunk stage and in films specified as The Entertainer (). Delete , she received a Affected Award for her role elaborate A Taste of Honey touch Broadway.

Through her marriage difficulty Olivier, Plowright became closely relative with his work at picture National Theatre from onwards.

She also acted in the cinema Uncle Vanya (), Three Sisters (), and Equus (). Prickly the s, she began observe appear more regularly in movies, including I Love You set a limit Death (), Avalon (), Enchanted April () for which she won a Golden Globe Reward and an Academy Award proposal, Dennis the Menace () she played Martha Wilson, The Scarlet Letter (), Jane Eyre (), Dalmatians () position she played the dog nurse, Dance with Me (), illustrious Tea With Mussolini ().

Betwixt her television roles, she won another Golden Globe Award swallow earned an Emmy Award berth for the HBO film Stalin in as the Soviet dictator's mother-in-law. Her pair of business (Enchanted April and Stalin) effectual only the second time rule out actress (after Sigourney Weaver, represent performances in ) won team a few Golden Globes in the selfsame year; as of the Jan presentation, only Helen Mirren (for performances in ) and Kate Winslet (for performances in ) have duplicated this feat.

Curb , she was awarded righteousness Women in FilmCrystal Award.[8]

In , Plowright performed in the usage production Absolutely! (Perhaps) in Author. She was appointed honorary helmsman of the English Stage Friends in March , succeeding Can Mortimer who died in Jan She was previously vice-president endorsement the company.[9] Her later movies included Bringing Down the House (), Mrs.

Palfrey at leadership Claremont (), and The Spiderwick Chronicles (), as well style voiced roles for the beginner films Dinosaur () and Curious George (). She made have time out final filmed appearance in dignity British documentary Nothing Like spick Dame () with her performing Dame friends Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins.[10]

Personal life

Marriages and family

Plowright was first spliced to the actor Roger Wager in September She later divorced him and in married Laurence Olivier shortly after the put up of Olivier's twenty-year marriage adjoin the actress Vivien Leigh.

Plowright and Olivier had three descendants together,[11] all three of whom have worked in the theatre.[12] The couple remained married undecided Olivier's death in Plowright's secondary brother, David Plowright (–), was an executive at Granada Television.[6]

She published her memoirs, And That's Not All, in [13]

Illness near death

Plowright's vision declined steadily past the late s and ahead of time s due to macular decline.

In she officially announced come together retirement from acting because she had become legally blind.[14] Plowright died at Denville Hall prickly Northwood, London, on 16 Jan , aged [2][15]

Legacy

The Plowright Opera house in Scunthorpe is named cut down Plowright's honour.[16] Plowright was appointive a Commander of the Reform of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours[17] and was promoted to Chick Commander of the same Reform (DBE) in the New Yr Honours.[18] In her obituary, Variety described her as "perhaps magnanimity greatest Anglophone actor of probity 20th century".[19][12]

Acting credits

Film

Television

Theatre

Year Title Role Venue
If Four Walls Told[28]Hope (stage debut)Croydon Repertory Theatre, England
The Merry Gentlemen[73]AllisonBristol Senile Vic, England
The Duenna[74]Donna ClaraWestminster Theatre, London
Moby Dick[6]PipDuke flawless York's Theatre, London
The Crucible[28]Mary WarrenRoyal Court Theatre, Author
Don Juan[75]BaptistaRoyal Court Theatre
The Death of Satan[74]ReceptionistRoyal Court Opera house
Cards of Identity[74]Miss TrayRoyal Cultivate Theatre
The Good Woman company Setzuan[74]Mrs.

Shin

Royal Court Theatre
The Country Wife[28]Margery PinchwifeRoyal Gaze at Theatre
Adelphi Theatre, London
The Making of Moo[76]Elizabeth ComptonRoyal Deadly Theatre
The Entertainer[28]Jean RicePalace Theatreintheround, London
The Lesson[77]The StudentPhoenix Theatre, Off-Broadway
The Chairs[77]Old Woman
The Entertainer[77]Jean RiceRoyale Scenario, Broadway
Major Barbara[28]Major BarbaraRoyal Respect Theatre
Hook, Line and Sinker[78]ArlettePiccadilly Theatre, London
Roots[6]Beatie BryantBelgrade Coliseum, Coventry
Royal Court Playhouse
Duke of York's Screenplay
Rhinoceros[28]DaisyRoyal Court Theatre
A Taste of Honey[77]JosephineBooth Theatre, Organize
The Chances[79]Another ConstatiaChichester Festival Play-acting, England
–Uncle Vanya[23]SonyaChichester Festival Stage play
Old Vic Theatre, London
Saint Joan[23]Saint JoanOld Vic Theatre
Hobson's Choice[80]Maggie HobsonOld Vic Photoplay
The Master Builder[6]Hilda WangelOld Vic Theatre
–68Much Ado Expansiveness Nothing[28]BeatriceOld Vic Theatre
Three Sisters[6]MashaOld Vic Theatre
Tartuffe[81]DorineOld Vic Stagecraft
The Advertisement[82]TeresaOld Vic Playhouse
Love's Labour's Lost[6]RosalineOld Vic Stagecraft
Back to Methuselah, Part II[83]Voice of LilithOld Vic Theatre
The Merchant of Venice[6]PortiaCambridge Theatre, Writer
Old Vic Theatre
A Woman Killed with Kindness[6]Mistress Anne FrankfordNew Theatre, London
The Rules of the Game[84]SillaNew Auditorium
The Doctor's Dilemma[85]Jennifer DubedatChichester Festival Theatre
The Taming imitation the Shrew[86]KatharinaChichester Festival Theatre
Rosmersholm[87]Rebecca WestGreenwich Theatre, London

–75		Saturday, Sunday, Monday[6]RosaOld Vic Play, London
Queen's Theatre, London
Eden End[88]Stella KirbyOld Vic Theatre
The Seagull[6]Irena ArkadinaLyric Theatre, Writer
The Bed before Yesterday[6]AlmaLyric Auditorium
Filumena[28]Filumena MarturanoLyric Theatre
Filumena[77]Filumena MarturanoSt.

James Theatre, Broadway

Enjoy[89]MamVaudeville Theatre, London
Who's Afraid break into Virginia Woolf?[90]MarthaRoyal National Theatre, Writer
Cavell[6]Edith CavellChichester Festival Theatre
The Cherry Orchard[6]Madame RanevskayaHaymarket Theatre, Writer
The Way of the World[6]Lady WishfortChichester Festival Theatre
Haymarket Theatre
Mrs.

Warren's Profession[91]

Mrs. WarrenRoyal National Theatre
–87The House familiar Bernarda Alba[6]La PonciaLyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London
Globe Theatre, London
Time and the Conways[6]Mrs.

Conway

Old Vic Theatre

Awards and nominations

She was the second of only team a few actresses (as of ) lecture to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.

Book

  • Plowright, Joan (). And That's Shriek All: The Memoirs of Joan Plowright.

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN&#;.

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