Joan Plowright
(1929-), ActressDame Joan Ann Plowright (Lady Olivier)
Sitter in 12 portraits
Plowright trained at the London Old Vic Theatre School and in 1956 joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. In 1957 she played opposite Laurence Olivier (whom she married in 1961) in The Entertainer and was Beattie in Arnold Wesker's Roots (1959). She won a TONY award for her performance in A Taste of Honey at the Lyceum Theatre in New York (1960). Her screen career includes roles in The Dressmaker (1988), Enchanted April (1992) and Tea with Mussolini (1999). She was made a Dame in 2004 and in 2009 she was appointed Honorary President of the English Stage Company.
Related People
- Hon. Julie Kate Olivier (daughter)
- Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (husband)
- Hon. Richard Olivier (son)
- Hon. Tamsin Olivier (daughter)
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