Monica Barbaro, who grew up in Mill Valley and graduated from Tamalpais High School in 2007, has gotten an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for her work in “A Complete ...

Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones' greatest songs, has died.

If I may, and in the spirit of the arts, especially during this time of the year when awards from nearly all entertainment organizations are presented: Let’s remind ourselves what were the top film, ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, a small market town in eastern England, where her father edited the local newspaper. Joan Plowright after being made a Dame in 2004. Picture: AFP “You’re ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ...

LOS ANGELES – Joan Plowright, the English actor whose ... Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Plowright was born Oct. 28, 1929, in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, England, to journalist and editor William ...

Joan was destined for the limelight. Born in Brigg, Lincs ... “She survived her many challenges with Plowright grit and courageous determination to make the best of them, and that she certainly ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...