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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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• The Making of Moo

  Whatsonstage.com - Found Nov. 16, 2009 The Royal Court cast included George Devine, Joan Plowright, John Osborne, John Wood and Robert Stephens.

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  Telegraph - Found Oct. 31, 2009 ... starring Joan Plowright and Maggie Smith Sharing regular cuppas in the film Tea With Mussolini clearly proved too enjoyable a pastime for Joan...

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  Broadway World - Found Oct. 29, 2009 In 1960, she came back to Broadway as Joan Plowright's mother in the season's most acclaimed drama, A Taste of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney. Lansbury has earpiece to thank for Tony Award - Hollywood Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor?s Next Line - New York Times Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actor?s Next Line - New York Times Whispers Offstage? Could Be Actors Next Line - New York Times Explore All

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  New York Times - Found Oct. 27, 2009 ... ended up serving 99 days.) Today's Birthdays: Jazz singer Cleo Laine is 82. Actress Joan Plowright is 80. Musician-songwriter Charlie Daniels... On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty, was dedicated in New York ... - South Florida Sun-Sentinel Explore All

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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.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

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.

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)
• 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

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 Yahoo! Movies

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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
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH