Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel in 1999 ... Ivory production of “Surviving Picasso,” as well ...

Dame Joan Plowright, a British acting titan whose partnership with her late husband Sir Laurence Olivier turned the British ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... and the Merchant-Ivory production of “Surviving Picasso,” as well as starring as the stalwart nanny in Disney’s live-action remake of “101 Dalmatians ...

You’re no oil painting, but you’ve got the spark. Just thank God you’ve got my legs, and not your father’s," her mother once ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s ...

FILE – Joan Plowright, nominated for best supporting ... of “Surviving Picasso,” as well as starring as the stalwart nanny in Disney’s live-action remake of “101 Dalmatians” in 1996 ...