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 ...

She embodied the class-conscious spirit of rebellion flourishing at the Royal Court Theatre, in contrast to her husband Laurence Olivier Dame Joan Plowright, the actress, who has died aged 95 ...

Actor Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.(Suzanne Plunkett / AP) LONDON — Award ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...

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 ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Oscar-nominated English actor Joan Plowright, acknowledged as one of the leading actors of her generation, has died at the age of 95, her family said on Friday. A star first in theatre and later on ...

London’s Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre are among the organisations to have paid tribute to actor Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95. Rufus Norris, outgoing artistic director at ...

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

PA Media Joan Plowright and fellow actress Geraldine McEwan examining a model of the planned National Theatre building in 1968, before its construction on London's South Bank The National Theatre ...