Joan Plowright – a life in pictures
The English actor, whose distinguished career in Hollywood, Broadway and the West End won her a Tony award and two Golden Globes
• Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95
• Michael Billington: Plowright was a dynamic force for change in theatre
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In her long career on stage and screen, Joan Plowright, Baroness Olivier, won two Golden Globe awards and a Tony award
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Orson Welles as Captain Ahab with Plowright as Pip at rehearsals for Welles’ stage version of Moby Dick at Duke of York’s theatre, London, 1955
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The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier, 1960, which won her a Bafta nomination
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A Taste of Honey, Broadway, 1960, with Billy Dee Williams
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Plowright with her new husband Laurence Olivier on the day they were married in a surprise ceremony, 1961
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Derek Jacobi and Plowright in Saint Joan at the Chichester festival theatre, 1963
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Laurence Olivier directing Plowright in Three Sisters, 1970
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Joan Plowright as Anne Frankford and Anthony Hopkins as John in a rehearsal for A Woman Killed With Kindness at the Old Vic, London, 1971
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With her husband Laurence Olivier in 1977
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As Lady Pitts in the TV movie Laurence Olivier Presents Daphne Laureola, 1978
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Plowright as La Poncia (left) in The House of Bernarda Alba at the Globe theatre, London, 1987
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In 1992, she won two Golden Globes: one for her performance as Nadya Alliluyeva (right) in Stalin, and another for her role in Enchanted April
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With Walter Matthau in a scene from Dennis the Menace, 1993
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Alongside Maggie Smith (right) in Tea With Mussolini, 1998
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Playing Signora Frola alongside Oliver Ford Davies (Laudisi) in Absolutely! (Perhaps) at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, 2003
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In The Spiderwick Chronicles, 2008
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Joan Plowright in London in 2001
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