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Smiling Through, Part 2
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New York Times - Found Jul. 11, 2008 Arriving for taping at his and his wife Joan Plowright?s suite in New York?s Wyndham Hotel, I thought, ?Olivier, for God?s sake! |
Enjoy (Bath & tour)
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Whatsonstage.com - Found Aug. 19, 2008 Enjoy was never one of Bennett's biggest West End hits (the original starred Joan Plowright and Colin Blakely) but it is a uniquely sour and... |
Joanna Glass' Palmer Park Makes World Premiere Aug. 16 in Ontario
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Playbill - Found Aug. 15, 2008 Playhouse and Canadian Stage Company in 1994. The British premiere was in London, starring Joan Plowright, directed by Richard Olivier. |
Joanna Glass' 'Palmer Park', a Visit to Post-Riot Detroit, Premieres ...
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Yahoo! News - Found Aug. 9, 2008 Playhouse and Canadian Stage Company in 1994. The British premiere was in London, starring Joan Plowright, directed by Richard Olivier. |
Joanna Glass' Palmer Park, a Visit to Post-Riot Detroit, Premieres ...
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Playbill - Found Aug. 8, 2008 Playhouse and Canadian Stage Company in 1994. The British premiere was in London, starring Joan Plowright, directed by Richard Olivier. |
FAMILY DVD OF THE WEEK:THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
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Urban CineFile - Found Jul. 31, 2008 ... old house where their great-great-uncle, Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn) and Great Aunt Lucy (Joan Plowright) used to live, strange... |
Classic Western out on DVD
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The Sun News - Found Jul. 31, 2008 With Nick Nolte, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright and David Strathairn. DVD, $34.99, one-disc edition; $39.99, two-disc special edition. |
Dvds Out Tomorrow
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Glasgow Sunday Mail - Found Jul. 27, 2008 They move into a creepy old house owned by their great aunt Lucinda (Joan Plowright), whose scientist father Arthur Spiderwick (David... |
Dvds Out Tomorrow
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Glasgow Sunday Mail - Found Jul. 27, 2008 They move into a creepy old house owned by their great aunt Lucinda (Joan Plowright), whose scientist father Arthur Spiderwick (David... |
New On DVD: 'The Spiderwick Chronicles'
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NBC30.com - Found Jul. 30, 2008 Left behind as a child when Arthur mysteriously disappeared, his now 86-year-old daughter (Joan Plowright) lives in a sanitarium -- left... |
Joan Plowright Biography
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| Born | Joan Ann Plowright 28 October 1929 Brigg, Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England |
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| Spouse(s) | Roger Gage (div 1961) Laurence Olivier (1961-1989) |
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Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress and the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier. She was awarded a CBE in 1970 and was made a Dame (DBE) in the New Year's Honours of 2004.
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Biography
Early life
Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Daisy Margaret (née Burton) and William Ernest Plowright, who was a journalist and newspaper editor.[1][2] She attended Scunthorpe Grammar School and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
Career
Plowright made her stage debut in 1951 and her London debut in 1954; she was long known as a superb theatre actress.
In 1956 she joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and won the role of Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife. She appeared with George Devine in the Eugène Ionesco play, Les Chaises, Major Barbara, Saint Joan, and in 1957 she co-starred with future husband Sir Laurence Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne's The Entertainer, taking over the role of Jean Rice from Dorothy Tutin when the play transferred from the Royal Court to the Palace Theatre.
Plowright continued to appear on stage and in films such as The Entertainer (1960) and The Three Sisters (1970). In 1961 she received a Tony Award for her role in A Taste of Honey on Broadway. After a brief hiatus to devote time to her family she returned to the screen and can be seen in films such as Dennis the Menace, a cameo in Last Action Hero, Enchanted April, for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination, and Tea With Mussolini. She was also notable for her major roles in 101 Dalmatians and Balto. Among her television roles, she won another Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO film "Stalin," as the Soviet dictator's mother-in-law.
In 2003, Plowright performed in the stage production Absolutely! in London.
Personal life
Plowright was first married to Roger Gage, an actor, in September, 1953. She divorced him, and in 1961 married Laurence Olivier. Together the couple had three children, Richard Kerr, Tamsin Agnes Margaret and Julie-Kate. Both daughters are actresses.[3] The couple remained married until his death from cancer in 1989.
The Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, is named in her honour. Upon her marriage to Sir Laurence Olivier, her formal title became "Lady Olivier", however she does not use it in her professional career.
Her brother, David Plowright CBE (1930-2006), was an executive at Granada Television.
Filmography
- Moby Dick (1956)
- The Entertainer (1960)
- Three Sisters (1970)
- Equus (1977)
- Britannia Hospital (1982)
- Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
- The Dressmaker (1988)
- Drowning By Numbers (1988)
- I Love You to Death (1990)
- Avalon (1990)
- Enchanted April (1992)
- Dennis the Menace (1993)
- Last Action Hero (1993)
- Widows' Peak (1994)
- A Pyromaniac's Love Story (1995)
- The Scarlet Letter (1995)
- Surviving Picasso (1996)
- Jane Eyre (1996)
- 101 Dalmatians (1996)
- Balto (1996)
- Dance With Me (1998)
- Tea With Mussolini (1999)
- Dinosaur (2000) (voice)
- Back to the Secret Garden (2001)
- Callas Forever (2002)
- Global Heresy (2002)
- Bringing Down the House (2003)
- I am David (2003)
- Goose! (2004)
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)
- Curious George (2006) (voice)
- The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
- Knife Edge (2008)
- In the Shadow of Wings (2008)
- Brontë (2008)
References
- ^ "Joan Plowright Biography". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
- ^ Joan Plowright Biography (1929-)
- ^ "Joan Plowright Biography (1929-)". Film Reference. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
External links
- Joan Plowright at the Internet Broadway Database
- Joan Plowright at the Internet Movie Database
- Joan Plowright at Yahoo! Movies
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| Preceded by Mercedes Ruehl for The Fisher King |
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for Enchanted April 1993 |
Succeeded by Winona Ryder for The Age of Innocence |
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| NAME | Plowright, Joan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plowright, Joan Ann |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 28 October 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brigg, Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England |
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Joan Plowright Videos and Clips
Description: Bryn Terfel sings "But Who May Abide" from Handels Messiah, then a bit of narration, and finally the Choir sings "Sir Christemas" by William Mathia...
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Description: some marvelous performances here! This extract starts with Act I, scene ii "What country, freinds, is this?" Then the start of play, Act I, scene i...
Description: Un film de Mark Waters avec Freddie Highmore, Mary louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Martin Short... Mme Grace...
Description: Un film de Mark Waters avec Freddie Highmore, Mary louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Martin Short. Mme Grace, ...
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