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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. She won the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play in 1978 for Filumena . Early life.
Joan Plowright. Jump to. 8 wins & 9 nominations. Academy Awards, USA. 1993 Nominee Oscar. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Enchanted April. BAFTA Awards. 1978 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Best Supporting Actress. Equus. 1961 Nominee BAFTA Film Award. Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. The Entertainer. CableACE Awards.
- 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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- Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, UK
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
May 13, 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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Check all the awards won and nominated for by Joan Plowright - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television (1993) , Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (1993) , Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a New Play (1978) and more awards.
In 1993, Plowright won the Best Supporting Actress – Television award for her performance in Stalin and the Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture award for Enchanted April. In the latter – a lovely Sunday afternoon movie – she plays a snooty English writer who softens when she makes friends during an Italian vacation.
