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 ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decades ... but she likes the travel and money from matriarchal characters in films. Dec. 31, 1996 Plowright may be remembered as the third and final ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey and Enchanted April, died Thursday. She was 95.

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress ... premiered in 2018 showed Plowright recalling her portrayal of the character Beatie Bryant in the 1959 groundbreaking stage production "Roots ...

By Anita Gates Joan Plowright, a British actress who brought an innate dignity to her characters, whether she was playing an elegant, name-dropping dowager or a working-class teenager, died on ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone ... You to Death,” in which she played the mother of Tracy Ullman’s character, the wife of a pizzeria owner (Kevin Kline) who has cheated ...

By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress ... frivolous and sometimes facetious characters of playwrights such as Noël Coward and Terence Rattigan and put blue-collar ...

Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... “I liked disappearing into a character,” she told the Associated Press. “At 14, 15, I probably had more confidence onstage than I ...