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

Joan Plowright, known for her performance in Three Sisters, Avalon and Bringing Down the House, was made Dame by Queen ...

She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up dozens of stage roles in everything from Chekhov’s “The Seagull” to ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to ... She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. From the 1950s to the ...

She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. From the 1950s to the ... two reunited for the 1960 film adaptation. FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene ...