Joan Plowright

Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier,, professionally known as Dame Joan Plowright, is 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.

28 October 1929

Born on the same birth date (28 October 1929): John Hollander • Marcel Bozzuffi • Virginia Held

Born on the same birth day (28 October): Alan Clarke • Billy Wedlock • Channing H. Cox • Edd Gould • Evelyn Waugh • Graham Bond • John Hewitt (poet)

Born in the same month (October 1929): Bernard Mayes • Betty Boothroyd • Bud Spencer • Curtis Amy • George Crumb • Herb Levinson • John Hollander • Lev Yashin • Lewis Wolpert • Marcel Bozzuffi • Mariano Gagnon • Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett • Moses Gunn • Peter Bronfman • Richard F. Gordon Jr. • Robert Westall • Ursula K. Le Guin • Virginia Held • Walasse Ting