Plowright was a prominent actress of stage ... an Emmy in 1993 for her role in the HBO telepic “Stalin,” starring Robert Duvall. Though she was first and foremost a creature of the theater ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Line and Sinker,” Robert Morley’s adaptation of a French comedy by André Roussin. And so Ms. Plowright went on for years, whisking from play to play with thunderous applause at each ...