Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday.

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 Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

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.

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

Joan Plowright in a BBC adaption of Sheridan's The School for Scandal in 1959 Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by ...

Big mistake.” Joan Ann Plowright was born Oct. 28, 1929, in Brigg and raised in Scunthorpe, localities in England’s industrial Midlands where her father was a newspaper editor. Her stagestruck ...

Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright was the daughter of a local newspaper editor and his homemaker ...

After he died, Plowright continued to act into her 80s, until failing sight forced her retirement. Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy ...