Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

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

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who did much to revitalise the UK's theatre scene in the decades after World War II, has died aged 95. In a statement on Friday, her family said Plowright ...

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. The British actress, who was married to ...