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

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence ...

Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of ...

She won many accolades — and was honored with a damehood — during a seven-decade career on the London stage, in film and on Broadway. By Anita Gates Joan Plowright, a British actress who ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier met in the cast of “The Entertainer” at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1956. Jan. 1, 1993 Her first marriage was to Roger Gage in 1953; they divorced in ...