Shrewd intelligence and impeccable comic timing were the hallmarks of the late-flourishing film career of the great theatre star Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95.

Advocacy for necessary change around gender and disability as well as race will continue with future generations of actors.

LONDON – Dame Joan Plowright, a venerated figure of British theatre and film who forged a distinguished career spanning ...

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 ...

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

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank ...

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

Actor Joan Plowright helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and ...