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Joan Plowright Biography
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Joan Plowright
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| Joan Plowright | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joan Ann Plowright 28 October 1929 Brigg, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1951 – present |
| Spouse(s) | Roger Gage (1953-1961) Laurence Olivier (1961-1989) |
Dame Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929), better known as Joan Plowright, is an English actress.
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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.12 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. In 1956 she joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre and was cast as Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife. She appeared with George Devine in the Eugène Ionesco play, The Chairs, Shaw's Major Barbara and Saint Joan. In 1957 she co-starred with 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). In 1961 she received a Tony Award for her role in A Taste of Honey on Broadway. Through her marriage to Laurence Olivier, she became closely associated with his work at the National Theatre from 1964 onwards.
From the 1980s she began to appear more regularly in films, including Enchanted April (1992), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination, Dennis the Menace (1993), a cameo in Last Action Hero (also 1993), and Tea With Mussolini (1999). She was also Nanny in 101 Dalmatians (1996).
Among her television roles, she won another Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO film Stalin in 1992 as the Soviet dictator's mother-in-law.
In 2003, Plowright performed in the stage production Absolutely! in London. Plowright was appointed honorary president of the English Stage Company in March 2009, succeeding John Mortimer, who died in January 2009. She was previously vice-president of the company.3
Plowright was awarded a CBE in 1970 and was made a Dame (DBE) in the New Year's Honours of 2004.
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.4 The couple remained married until his death in 1989.
Her brother, David Plowright CBE (1930-2006), was an executive at Granada Television.
Legacy
The Plowright Theatre in her native Scunthorpe is named in her honour. Upon her marriage to Sir Laurence Olivier, her formal title became "Lady Olivier", however she has never used it in her professional career.
Filmography
- Moby Dick (1956)
- The Entertainer (1960)
- Three Sisters (1970)
- Equus (1977)
- Britannia Hospital (1982)
- Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
- Revolution (1985)
- The Dressmaker (1988)
- Drowning By Numbers (1988)
- Sophie (1989)
- 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) - Harriet Hibbons
- 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)
- George and the Dragon (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. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800018825/bio. Retrieved 2007-06-29.
- ^ Joan Plowright Biography (1929-)
- ^ Smith, Alistair (2009-03-05). "Plowright becomes honorary president of English Stage Company". The Stage. The Stage Newspaper Limited. http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/23708/plowright-becomes-honorary-president-of. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
- ^ "Joan Plowright Biography". Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/film/13/Joan-Plowright.html. Retrieved 2007-06-29.
External links
- Joan Plowright at the Internet Movie Database
- Joan Plowright at the Internet Broadway Database
- Joan Plowright at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Performances listed in Theatre Archive University of Bristol
- Joan Plowright at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- Joan Plowright at Yahoo! Movies
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