Joan Plowright

1929 -    Has 2 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Joan Plowright
  Birth	28 Oct 1929	Brigg, North Lincolnshire, England
  Gender	Female
  Prominent People	Great Britain
  actor
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. Joan Plowright,   b. 28 Oct 1929, Brigg, North Lincolnshire, England ▻ Laurence Kerr Olivier,  m. 1961   2. David Ernest Plowright
  Person ID	I373621	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2019

  
  

  Father	William Ernest Plowright Plowright
  Mother	Daisy Margaret Burton
  Family ID	F148263	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Laurence Kerr Olivier,   b. 22 May 1907, Dorking, Surrey, England d. 11 Jul 1989, Steyning, Sussex, England (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	1961
  3 children
  Children	1. Julie Kate Olivier   2. Tamsin Olivier   3. Living
  Family ID	F148248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2002

  
  

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• Notes

  Long considered one of Britain's finest stage actresses, it wasn't until the 1980s that Plowright came into her own as a character actress in films. She trained at the Old Vic Theatre School and made her stage debut in 1951, later appearing in such groundbreaking productions as John Osborne's "The Entertainer" and Ionesco's "Rhinoceros." She received acclaim for her title roles in "Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan" and won a Tony for her Broadway performance in "A Taste of Honey." She made her film debut in Moby Dick (1956), but received more attention when she recreated her stage role in the film adaptation of The Entertainer (1960), playing the daughter of Laurence Olivier, whom she later married in real life. While raising a family, she worked only sporadically, in films like Three Sisters (1970, directed by Olivier) and Equus (1977). Her output increased in the 1980s: Brimstone and Treacle, Britannia Hospital (both 1982), Wagner (1983), and Revolution (1985). She was excellent in starring roles in Drowning by Numbers (1987) and The Dressmaker (1988), then demonstrated her extraordinary range (and ability with accents) in the American films I Love You To Death (1990, as Tracey Ullman's Yugoslavian mom) and Avalon (1990, as Aidan Quinn's Jewish mom). She was wonderful as an uptight Victorian widow in Enchanted April (1992, Oscarnominated), costarred in the TV movie Stalin (1992), and, incredibly, played Mrs. Wilson in John Hughes' adaptation of Dennis the Menace (1993). She costarred in The Summer House (also 1993) and appeared in Widows' Peak (1994). She was married to Olivier from 1961 until his death in 1989; in 1993's Last Action Hero she made a cameo appearance as a schoolteacher gamely trying to interest her pupils in Shakespeare by showing them a film clip of his 1948 Hamlet Wikipedia