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Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England.

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

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 ...

It seems only fitting that the love affair between two of Britain's greatest actors started in the theatre. It was in 1956 ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage career reached even greater heights after the death of her husband, ...

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

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

Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960.

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

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) By then ...