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Permalinkin the 1961 film version. It's not clear which performance came first.)
She was also in the films "Tea with Mussolini," "101 Dalmatians" (1996),
"Jane Eyre" (1996), "Enchanted April," "Drowning by Numbers," and
"Equus."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyppre55gyo
Ian Youngs
Culture reporter
Jan. 17th
Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen
stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.
Her career spanned 60 years and included an Oscar nomination for the
1991 film Enchanted April.
She married Olivier in 1961 after starring opposite him as his daughter
in The Entertainer, and became a leading member of the National Theatre,
which he set up.
In a statement, her family said they were "so proud of all Joan did and
who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being".
Her family said: "It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan
Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away peacefully
on January 16 2025 surrounded by her family at Denville Hall aged 95.
"She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV
over seven decades until blindness made her retire.
"She cherished her last 10 years in Sussex with constant visits from
friends and family, filled with much laughter and fond memories."
They added: "She survived her many challenges with Plowright grit and
courageous determination to make the best of them, and that she
certainly did.
"Rest in peace, Joan..."
She had been retired for a decade, having lost her eyesight and been
registered blind.
Born in Scunthorpe, Plowright became a leading lady in London's West End
in the 1950s, and first appeared opposite Olivier in John Osborne's The
Entertainer at the Royal Court in 1957.
He was still married to Gone With The Wind star Vivien Leigh at the
time, and Plowright was married to her first husband Roger Gage.
Plowright and Olivier fell in love, and their acting partnership earned
them both Bafta nominations for the film version of The Entertainer,
which came out in 1960.
That year, Plowright also made her breakthrough in the US in A Taste of
Honey on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for her performance.
Her other notable plays included George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, about
Joan of Arc, in 1963, which for which she was named best actress at the
Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
And she won a Society of West End Theatre Award - later renamed the
Olivier Awards after her husband - in 1978 for Filumena.
She received another Bafta nomination that same year for her performance
in the film version of Equus alongside Richard Burton.
In Enchanted April, her role as the elegant but peevish Mrs Fisher
earned her a Golden Globe as well as a nomination for the Oscar for best
supporting actress in 1993...
(snip)
The rest is amusing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=joan+plowright+95&sca_esv=bca4d6818df5eb0f&biw=1920&bih=915&ei=RpOKZ9_iCp-q5NoP9orzuQk&ved=0ahUKEwjfnebto_2KAxUfFVkFHXbFPJcQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=joan+plowright+95&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEWpvYW4gcGxvd3JpZ2h0IDk1MgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSMcMUPwBWMoJcAF4AZABAJgBTqABwwGqAQEzuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIEoAL4AcICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAg0QABiABBiwAxhDGIoFwgINEC4YgAQYsAMYQxiKBcICDhAAGLADGOQCGNYE2AEBwgITEC4YgAQYsAMYQxjIAxiKBdgBAcICFRAAGIAEGLEDGEMYgwEYigUYRhj7AcICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIQEC4YgAQYsQMYQxiDARiKBcICBBAAGAPCAiEQABiABBixAxhDGIMBGIoFGEYY-wEYlwUYjAUY3QTYAQGYAwCIBgGQBhG6BgYIARABGAmSBwE0oAfvFQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
(more obits)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0687506/
I was amazed to find out there was a 1951 TV series based on "Sara
Crewe"! (The longer book version is known as "A Little Princess.")
However, Plowright's character, Winnie, did not exist in ANY print or
film version, to my knowledge.