Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier, professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, was an English 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 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.
One of the UK's finest stage actresses, she later appeared in films including Tea with Mussolini.