As per our current Database, Joan Greenwood has been died on 28 February 1987(1987-02-28) (aged 65)\nLondon, England.
When Joan Greenwood die, Joan Greenwood was 65 years old.
Popular As | Joan Greenwood |
Occupation | Actress |
Age | 65 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Aries |
Born | March 04, 1921 ( Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom) |
Birthday | March 04 |
Town/City | Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Joan Greenwood’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Joan Greenwood was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Born in Chelsea, London, the daughter of Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood (1887–1949), a portrait Artist, and Ida Greenwood (née Waller), Joan Greenwood studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked mainly on the stage, where she had a long career, appearing with Donald Wolfit's theatre company in the years following the Second World War.
Greenwood made several memorable screen appearances just after the war, in Ealing Comedies, in Whisky Galore!; as the seductive Sibella in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949); and in The Man in the White Suit (1951). She opened The Grass is Greener in the West End in 1952, and played Gwendolyn in a film version of The Importance of Being Earnest released in the same year.
She had a leading role in Stage Struck (1958), an adaptation of Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (1961), and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for Tom Jones (1963).
In 1960 Greenwood appeared as the title character in a production of Hedda Gabler at the Playhouse, Oxford. Starring opposite her as Judge Brack was the actor André Morell. They fell in love and flew in secret to Jamaica, where they were married, remaining together until his death in 1978.
Greenwood appeared as Olga, alongside Spike Milligan in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov, based on the novel by Russian Writer Ivan Goncharov. The play opened at London's Lyric Theatre on 6 October 1964. Greenwood was described as "a model of generosity and tolerance ... the only person in the cast who could not be 'corpsed' by Milligan; although he tried very hard. She looked beautiful, and played the part of Oblomov's unfortunate lady with total integrity. 'She never left the script', says Milligan with a guilty smile of something between irritation and admiration. 'I just couldn't make her crack up. All the rest of us did. She never lost her dignity for a moment.'"
She played Lady Carlton, a quirky romance Novelist and landlady to the main characters in the British sitcom Girls on Top (1985–86). Her last film was Little Dorrit (1988), which was released posthumously.
Joan Greenwood died of a heart attack in London, less than a week before her 66th birthday. With her husband she had one child, Jason Morell, a film actor who appeared in Mrs Brown (1997, as Lord Stanley), and Wilde (also 1997, as Ernest Dowson).