Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright’s Followers (1)

member photo

Joan Plowright


Born
Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, The United Kingdom
Genre


Dame Joan Ann Plowright (28 October 1929 - 16 January 2025) was an English actress whose career spanned over six decades.

She won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards. She was the second of only four actresses (as of 2024) to have won two Golden Globes in the same year. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play in 1978 for Filumena.

She was described by Variety as "perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century". Plowright was married to actor Laurence Olivier from 1961 until his death in 1989.
...more

Average rating: 3.53 · 49 ratings · 11 reviews · 4 distinct worksSimilar authors
And That's Not All : The Me...

3.47 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Plays of J.B. Priestley...

by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
FILUMENA - The Lyric Theatr...

by
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.



Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Joan to Goodreads.