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Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier, DBE (28 October 1929 - 16 January 2025), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English actress, whose career has spanned over sixty years. Throughout her career she has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two BAFTA Awards. Joan Plowright is also one of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.

Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
as Herself

Nothing Like a Dame
as Self

Knife Edge
as Marjorie Blake

The Spiderwick Chronicles
as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick

Curious George
as Ms. Plushbottom (voice)

Goose on the Loose
as Beatrice Fairfield

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
as Mrs. Palfrey

George and the Dragon
as Mother Superior

I Am David
as Sophie

Bringing Down the House
as Mrs. Virginia Arness

Callas Forever
as Sarah Keller

Global Heresy
as Lady Foxley

Scrooge and Marley
as Narrator

Bailey's Mistake
as Aunt Angie

Frankie & Hazel
as Phoebe Harkness

Back to the Secret Garden
as Martha Sowerby

Dinosaur
as Baylene (voice)

Tom's Midnight Garden
as Mrs Bartholomew

Tea with Mussolini
as Mary Wallace

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
as Jeanne Vertefeuille
Encore! Encore!
as Marie Pinoni

Dance with Me
as Bea Johnson

101 Dalmatians
as Nanny

Surviving Picasso
as Françoise's Grandmother

Mr. Wrong
as Mrs. Crawford

Jane Eyre
as Mrs. Fairfax

The Scarlet Letter
as Harriet Hibbons

A Pyromaniac's Love Story
as Mrs. Linzer

Hotel Sorrento
as Marge Morrisey

A Pin for the Butterfly
as Grandma

The Return of the Native
as Frau Yeobright

A Place for Annie
as Dorothy

On Promised Land
as Mrs. Appletree

Widows' Peak
as Mrs. Doyle-Counihan

The Clothes in the Wardrobe
as Mrs. Monro

Last Action Hero
as Teacher

Dennis the Menace
as Martha Wilson

Stalin
as Olga

The House of Bernarda Alba
as Poncia

Enchanted April
as Mrs Fisher

Avalon
as Eva Krichinsky

I Love You to Death
as Nadja

And a Nightingale Sang
as Mam

The Dressmaker
as Nellie

Drowning by Numbers
as Cissie Colpitts

The Importance of Being Earnest
as Lady Bracknell

The Birthday Party
as Meg Bowles

Revolution
as Mrs. McConnahay

Theatre Night
as Meg

Screen Two
as Mrs. Monro

Laurence Olivier: a life
as Self

Brimstone & Treacle
as Norma Bates
All for Love
as Edith

Britannia Hospital
as Phyllis Grimshaw

A Dedicated Man
as Edith

The Diary of Anne Frank
as Edith Frank-Holländer

Daphne Laureola
as Lady Pitts

Saturday, Sunday, Monday
as Rosa

Equus
as Dora Strang

Laurence Olivier Presents
as Rosa