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 ...
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.
Actor Joan Plowright helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and ...
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 ... and made a brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self-referencing ...