Joan Plowright
Birthday: 1929-10-28
Place of Birth: Brigg, Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Biography: 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.
Movies
I Love You to Death
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie d...
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Avalon
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the famil...
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A Pyromaniac's Love Story
A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is offere...
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Dinosaur
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower...
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Tea with Mussolini
In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sen...
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Bringing Down the House
Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time ...
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George and the Dragon
In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to foll...
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101 Dalmatians
An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur ...
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Gra...
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Dennis the Menace
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll...
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Widows' Peak
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely b...
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Enchanted April
When married British women Rose Arbuthnot and Lottie Wilkins decide to take a break from their respe...
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Last Action Hero
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop....
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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Revolution
New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son ...
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Drowning by Numbers
Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another whic...
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Knife Edge
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but t...
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Back to the Secret Garden
A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled acro...
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Equus
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in ...
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Time Without Pity
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a week...
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I Am David
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and ...
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Global Heresy
A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour....
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Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious ...
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Callas Forever
Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "C...
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Dance with Me
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the firs...
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Scrooge and Marley
Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered ...
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The Entertainer
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in ...
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Brimstone & Treacle
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer....
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Hotel Sorrento
Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg,...
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The Diary of Anne Frank
The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis during...
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Stalin
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of An...
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A Place for Annie
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent h...
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The Dressmaker
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 1...
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The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish...
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Goose on the Loose
Grieving young Will Donnelly looks to protect his new best friend, a talking goose, from school Prin...
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Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within
Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage in U...
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The Merchant of Venice
An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier....
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Twelfth Night
Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of ide...
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A Pin for the Butterfly
Communism seen through the eyes of a young girl who watches her beloved uncle struggle with the oppr...
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Three Sisters
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exil...
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Mr. Wrong
A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his dera...
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Bailey's Mistake
"Bailey's Mistake" is the name of a cold, dreary island that a bitter widow finds herself stuck on. ...
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The Scarlet Letter
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast af...
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And a Nightingale Sang
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of...
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The House of Bernarda Alba
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close wat...
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The Return of the Native
Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fatefu...
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Surviving Picasso
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Pica...
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Daphne Laureola
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased....
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Frankie & Hazel
Actress JoBeth Williams directed this Showtime family feature starring The Sixth Sense's Mischa Bart...
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Tom's Midnight Garden
When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a fla...
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Curious George
When The Man in the Yellow Hat befriends Curious George in the jungle, they set off on a non-stop, f...
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their fr...
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Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atki...
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On Promised Land
In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowner...
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The Birthday Party
It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production ...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is f...
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A Dedicated Man
Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox...
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Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life
Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how Zeffirelli's se...
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Laurence Olivier: a life
A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/dir...
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