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Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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Emmy (Primetime)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
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Academy Award
Actress in a Supporting Role
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts
Supporting Actress
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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.
Satellite Awards. 2005 Nominee Satellite Award. Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont. 1999 Nominee Golden Satellite Award. Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical. Dance with Me.
- October 28, 1929
For her performance as Josephine, which Rita Tushingham played in the movie version, she won a 1961 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. (She had first appeared on Broadway in a twin bill of Eugène Ionesco 's "The Chairs" and "The Lesson" in January 1958, a month before she appeared with Olivier in "The Entertainer".)
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For her performance as Josephine, which Rita Tushingham played in the movie version, she won a 1961 Tony Award as Best Actress in a Play. (She had first appeared on Broadway in a twin bill of Eugène Ionesco 's "The Chairs" and "The Lesson" in January 1958, a month before she appeared with Olivier in "The Entertainer".)
- October 28, 1929
Apr 5, 2024 · For her role as a haughty know-it-all in Enchanted April (1991), Plowright was nominated for a best supporting actress Academy Award. In 2005 she starred as a lonely widow who befriends a young writer in Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005).
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Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, DBE, is an English actress whose career has 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.
Oct 28, 2019 · J oan Plowright, who celebrates her 90th birthday today, is the senior figure in a remarkable generation of actors including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Eileen Atkins, all celebrated in the film...
