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Full Name:Joan Plowright
Birth Name:Joan Ann Plowright
Famous As: Actress
Date of Birth: October 28, 1929
Place of Birth: Brigg, North Lincolnshire, UK
Nationality: British
Father: William Plowright
Mother: Daisy Burton
Brother(s): David Plowright (an executive at Granada Television)
Spouse: Roger Gage (? - 1961), Laurence Olivier (an actor, March 17 , 1961 - July 11, 1989, his death)
Son(s): Richard Olivier (a movie director, b. 1962)
Daughter(s): Julie Kate (an actress, b. January 26, 1966), Tamsin (an actress, b.

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Joan Plowright
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Joan Plowright
Born Joan Ann Plowright
28 October 1929 (1929-10-28) (age 80)
Brigg, Parts of Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 1951–present
Spouse(s) Roger Gage (1953 - 1961)
Laurence Olivier (1961-1989)

Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress. 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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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, Les Chaises, Shaw's Major Barbara and Saint Joan. 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). 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 in the 1960s.

From the 1980s she began to appear more regularly in films, including Dennis the Menace (1993), 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 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 company3.

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 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.

The 5ive single Slam Dunk Da Funk was originally entitled "Plow Right On" until a legal injunction from Plowright's solicitors.

Her brother, David Plowright CBE (1930-2006), was an executive at Granada Television.

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