Joan Plowright

The Right Honourable
The Lady Olivier
DBE
The Right Honourable The Lady Olivier DBE
	Plowright in 1958
Born	Joan Ann Plowright; 28 October 1929 (age 95); Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
Alma mater	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1948–2014, 2018
Spouses	Roger Gage (m. 1953; div. 1960); Laurence Olivier (m. 1961; died 1989);
Children	3
Relatives	David Plowright (brother)

Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier DBE^[1] (born 28 October 1929), professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, is a British retired actress whose career spanned over six decades. She has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards. She was the second of only four actresses (as of 2023) 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.

^ Herbert Kretzmer (28 August 2014). Snapshots: Encounters with Twentieth-Century Legends. Biteback. ISBN 978-1-84954-798-7. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

[1] Herbert Kretzmer (28 August 2014). Snapshots: Encounters with Twentieth-Century Legends. Biteback. ISBN 978-1-84954-798-7. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

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The Right Honourable The Lady Olivier DBE
Plowright in 1958
Born	Joan Ann Plowright (1929-10-28) 28 October 1929 (age 95) Brigg, Lincolnshire, England
Alma mater	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1948–2014, 2018
Spouses	Roger Gage (m. 1953; div. 1960) Laurence Olivier (m. 1961; died 1989)
Children	3
Relatives	David Plowright (brother)