Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe ...

Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95 ... TV Times/Future Publishing via Getty Images Throughout her glittering onscreen career that spanned over six decades ...

She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. Actress Joan Plowright poses for pictures after being made a Dame by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace in London in 2004. STEFAN ROUSSEAU ...

Joan Plowright and Sir Laurence Olivier. - Pat Candido/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in American director John Huston’s ...

Joan Plowright having tea with Dame Edna Everage in 1976. Picture: Getty Images In 1993, she became one of the few actors to have won two Golden Globes in the same year, one for Enchanted April ...

Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier at the christening of their daughter Tamsin in 1963 Credit: Stanley Sherman/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Most of her subsequent theatrical career ...