Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright was an English actor 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 female actors (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".

Family life

Plowright was born on 28 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Daisy Margaret (née Burton) and William Ernest Plowright, who was a journalist and newspaper editor.

Plowright was first married to the actor Roger Gage in September 1953. She later divorced him and in 1961, married Laurence Olivier shortly after the end of his twenty-year marriage to the actor Vivien Leigh. Plowright and Olivier had three children together. Both daughters became actors. The couple remained married until Olivier's death in 1989.

Plowright's younger brother, David Plowright (1930–2006), was an executive at Granada Television.

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Sources

• Gates, Anita. "Joan Plowright, Award-Winning Actress and Olivier's Widow, Dies at 95." The New York Times, published 17 January 2025. < link > Accessed 17 January 2025.
• "Joan Plowright." Wikipedia, revision of 17 January 2025. < link > Accessed 17 January 2025.