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

LONDON -- Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence ...

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

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and ...

LONDON – Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier ... Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.