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Joan Plowright

Aliases
  • Joan Ann Plowright
  • Joan Ann Olivier
  • Dame Joan Plowright
  • Baroness Olivier
English
Filmography

101 Dalmatians

1996
as Nanny

Dinosaur

2000
as Baylene (voice)

The Spiderwick Chronicles

2008
as Aunt Lucinda Spiderwick

Dennis the Menace

1993
as Mrs. Martha Wilson

Last Action Hero

1993
as Teacher

Goose on the Loose

2006
as Beatrice Fairfield

Hotel Sorrento

1995
as Marge Morrisey

Drowning by Numbers

1988
as Cissie Colpitts 1

On Promised Land

1994
as Mrs. Appletree

Revolution

1985
as Mrs. McConnahay

The Dressmaker

1988
as Nellie

A Dedicated Man

1982
as Edith

Encore! Encore!

1998

Three Sisters

1970
as Masha

The Diary of Anne Frank

1980
as Edith Frank-Holländer

Moby Dick Rehearsed

1955
as A Young Actress / Pip

The Entertainer

1960
as Jean Rice

Widows' Peak

1994
as Mrs. Doyle-Counihan

A Pyromaniac's Love Story

1995
as Mrs. Linzer

Tea with Mussolini

1999
as Mary Wallace

Aldrich Ames: Traitor Within

1998
as Jeanne Vertefeuille

Knife Edge

2009
as Marjorie

Bailey's Mistake

2001
as Aunt Angie

Mr. Wrong

1996
as Mrs. Crawford

Saturday Sunday Monday

1978
as Rosa

The Scarlet Letter

1995
as Harriet Hibbons

Global Heresy

2002
as Lady Foxley

Nothing Like a Dame

2018
as Herself

Avalon

1990
as Eva Krichinsky

Britannia Hospital

1982
as Phyllis Grimshaw

And a Nightingale Sang

1989
as Mam

A Pin for the Butterfly

1994
as Grandma

Brimstone & Treacle

1982
as Norma Bates

The Summer House

1993
as Mrs. Monro

Surviving Picasso

1996
as Großmutter von Françoise

Peace One Day

2004
as Joan Plowright

A Place for Annie

1994
as Dorothy

Dance with Me

1998
as Bea Johnson

Tweltfth Night

1969
as Viola

Scrooge and Marley

2001
as Narrator

Back to the Secret Garden

2001
as Martha Sowerby

Callas Forever

2002
as Sarah Keller

The Merchant of Venice

1973
as Portia

The Return of the Native

1994
as Frau Yeobright

Curious George

2006
as Ms. Plushbottom (voice)

I Am David

2003
as Sophie

Frankie & Hazel

2000
as Phoebe Harkness

Time Without Pity

1957
as Agnes Cole

Tom's Midnight Garden

1999
as Mrs Bartholomew

The Birthday Party

1987
as Meg Bowles

I Love You to Death

1990
as Nadja

George and the Dragon

2004
as Mother Superior

Enchanted April

1991
as Mrs. Fisher

Jane Eyre

1996
as Mrs. Fairfax

Daphne Laureola

1978
as Lady Pitts

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

2005
as Mrs. Palfrey

Bringing Down the House

2003
as Virginia Arness

Stalin

1992
as Olga

Equus

1977
as Dora Strang

Guest Star

Episode Late Show with David Letterman
Show #0074 		1993
Episode Arena (1975)
Nothing Like A Dame 		2018
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Joan Plowright, Natalie Merchant 		1999
Episode Theatre Night
The Importance of Being Earnest 		1988
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright 		1980
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright 		1980
Episode Theatre Night
The Birthday Party 		1987
Episode ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Twelfth Night 		1970