Joan Plowright

Born: 1929-10-28

Joan Ann Plowright, Lady Olivier, DBE (born 28 October 1929), better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Plowright, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Dinosaur

as Baylene (voice)
Released: 2000-05-19

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite...

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101 Dalmatians

as Nanny
Released: 1996-11-27

An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant...

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as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick
Released: 2008-02-14

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon...

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Dennis the Menace

as Martha Wilson
Released: 1993-06-24

Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But...

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as Teacher
Released: 1993-06-18

After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible...

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Surviving Picasso

as Françoise's Grandmother
Released: 1996-09-04

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo...

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Dance with Me

as Bea Johnson
Released: 1998-08-21

Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the...

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Nothing Like a Dame

as Self
Released: 2018-05-02

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen...

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The Scarlet Letter

as Harriet Hibbons
Released: 1995-10-13

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is...

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Curious George

as Ms. Plushbottom (voice)
Released: 2006-02-10

When The Man in the Yellow Hat befriends Curious George in the jungle, they set off on a...

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Britannia Hospital

as Phyllis Grimshaw
Released: 1982-05-27

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a...

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The Entertainer

as Jean Rice
Released: 1960-07-25

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay...

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Enchanted April

as Mrs Fisher
Released: 1991-11-27

Four English women, unhappy with their lives, rent an Italian villa on holiday.

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I Love You to Death

as Nadja
Released: 1990-04-06

Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When...

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George and the Dragon

as Mother Superior
Released: 2004-03-28

In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to...

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I Am David

as Sophie
Released: 2003-12-03

Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the...

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Bringing Down the House

as Mrs. Virginia Arness
Released: 2003-03-07

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard...

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Drowning by Numbers

as Cissie Colpitts 1
Released: 1988-09-10

Three generations of women who seek to murder their husbands share a solidarity for one another...

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Avalon

as Eva Krichinsky
Released: 1990-10-05

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the...

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Time Without Pity

as Agnes Cole
Released: 1957-03-21

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a...

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Brimstone & Treacle

as Norma Bates
Released: 1982-10-01

A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.

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Revolution

as Mrs. McConnahay
Released: 1985-12-25

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his...

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Equus

as Dora Strang
Released: 1977-10-16

A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike...

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Tea with Mussolini

as Mary Wallace
Released: 1999-03-25

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman,...

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Jane Eyre

as Mrs. Fairfax
Released: 1996-01-20

Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in...

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The Return of the Native

as Frau Yeobright
Released: 1994-12-04

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a...

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The Diary of Anne Frank

as Edith Frank-Holländer
Released: 1980-11-17

The story of a 13-year-old Jewish girl and her family who are forced into hiding by the Nazis...

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Callas Forever

as Sarah Keller
Released: 2002-09-18

Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of...

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The Summer House

as Mrs. Monro
Released: 1993-12-21

Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to...

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Global Heresy

as Lady Foxley
Released: 2002-09-03

A rock band bursts onto the scene and then their frontman disappears on the eve of a European tour.

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Back to the Secret Garden

as Martha Sowerby
Released: 2000-09-02

A youngster living in a stately home discovers the magical garden Mary, Colin & Dickon stumbled...

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Knife Edge

as Marjorie Blake
Released: 2009-10-23

A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son,...

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A Pyromaniac's Love Story

as Mrs. Linzer
Released: 1995-04-28

A pastry boy and the son of a hair-piece mogul become involved in an arson scandal. Sergio is...

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Widows' Peak

as Mrs. Doyle-Counihan
Released: 1994-04-15

Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated...

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Mr. Wrong

as Mrs. Crawford
Released: 1996-02-16

A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his...

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Stalin

as Olga
Released: 1992-11-21

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

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Tom's Midnight Garden

as Mrs Bartholomew
Released: 1999-07-02

When Tom's brother Peter gets measles, he is sent to stay with his Uncle Alan and Aunt Gwen in a...

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Three Sisters

as Masha
Released: 1970-04-01

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual...

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The Importance of Being Earnest

as Lady Bracknell
Released: 1988-05-29

Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and...

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Goose on the Loose

as Beatrice Fairfield
Released: 2006-01-13

Grieving young Will Donnelly looks to protect his new best friend, a talking goose, from school...

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Hotel Sorrento

as Marge Morrisey
Released: 1995-04-20

Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia....

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Uncle Vanya

as Sonya
Released: 1963-11-20

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

as Mrs. Palfrey
Released: 2005-11-25

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a...

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The Merchant of Venice

as Portia
Released: 1973-10-07

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

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A Place for Annie

as Dorothy
Released: 1994-05-01

Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To...

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The House of Bernarda Alba

as Poncia
Released: 1991-12-18

A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close...

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Twelfth Night

as Viola
Released: 1970-07-12

Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Ralph Richardson and Joan Plowright star in this merry on-stage mix-up of...

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Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

as Jeanne Vertefeuille
Released: 1998-11-29

Fact-based story about a 90's espionage case that was chronicled as the worst case of espionage...

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Bailey's Mistake

as Aunt Angie
Released: 2001-03-17

"Bailey's Mistake" is the name of a cold, dreary island that a bitter widow finds herself stuck...

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The Birthday Party

as Meg Bowles
Released: 1987-06-21

It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC...

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And a Nightingale Sang

as Mam
Released: 1989-04-17

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the...

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On Promised Land

as Mrs. Appletree
Released: 1994-04-17

In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The...

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Saturday, Sunday, Monday

as Rosa
Released: 1978-01-01

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and...

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The Dressmaker

as Nellie
Released: 1988-12-16

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after...

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Franco Zeffirelli: Directing from Life

as Herself
Released: 2018-11-15

Franco Zeffirelli passed away on 15th June 2019. Chris Hunt's biography explores how...

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Scrooge and Marley

as Narrator
Released: 2001-12-01

Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The...

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A Dedicated Man

as Edith
Released: 1982-03-31

Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice...

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Daphne Laureola

as Lady Pitts
Released: 1978-01-15

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.

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Great Performances

as Self
First aired: 1971-01-28

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Winner
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Mrs. Yeobright
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Dorothy
First aired: 1951-12-24

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...

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Laurence Olivier Presents

as Rosa
First aired: 1976-12-05

Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran...

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Laurence Olivier Presents

as Lady Pitts
First aired: 1976-12-05

Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran...

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