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.

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 ...

LONDON — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a ...

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

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ... the Menace,” and made a brief appearance in the Arnold ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to ... and made a brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self-referencing ...