Plowright, Joan

Plowright, Joan

▪ English actress
in full  Joan Anne Plowright 
born October 28, 1929, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
 
 English dramatic actress.

      Plowright received her dramatic training at the Laban Art of Movement Studio in Manchester and at the Old Vic Theatre School in London. She made her first appearances on stage in 1951, played with an Old Vic touring company in South Africa in 1952, and made her debut in London in The Duenna in 1954. She continued to perform on the London stage until 1958, when she made her first appearance in New York City. Plowright's dual performances in two plays by Eugene Ionesco (Ionesco, Eugène) as both an old woman and a 17-year-old girl demonstrated her range and versatility as an actress and brought her wide critical acclaim.

      Plowright's most notable stage performances included those in A Taste of Honey (1960), Saint Joan (1963), and Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1973). She also performed on television and in such motion pictures as Moby Dick (1956), The Entertainer (1960), Three Sisters (1974; the latter two with her husband, Sir Laurence Olivier (Olivier, Laurence, Baron Olivier of Brighton)), and Equus (1977).

      In the 1980s and '90s Plowright starred in such films as Brimstone and Treacle (1982), The Dressmaker (1988), Enchanted April (1992), and Jane Eyre (1996). For her role as a haughty know-it-all in Enchanted April, Plowright was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award. In 2005 she starred as a lonely widow who befriends a young writer in Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005). Plowright's later films include the children's movies Curious George (2006), for which she supplied the voice of Miss Plushbottom, and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008).

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