She went with the play to Broadway and later earned a Tony award playing Jo, the pregnant teenager ... her film career had gathered pace. In Peter Greenaway’s Drowning By Numbers she played ...

A new archetype of athletic icon. Track and field legend Florence Griffith Joyner, better known as Flo Jo, strutted so Sha’Carri Richardson could blaze her own trail — both on the track and in ...

He died in 2005, and as the New Yorker’s Hilton Als writes in the liner notes for the Criterion Collection’s new edition of “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling,” if you grew up listening ...

During her two years in NSW Premier Chris Minns's cabinet, Jo Haylen survived numerous political scandals. But in the end, the minister responsible for the state's public transport was brought ...

In 1988, she starred with Juliet Stevenson and Joely Richardson in auteur Peter Greenaway’s “Drowning by Numbers.” While the film was rather puzzling, the Washington Post said Plowright was ...

NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen has resigned over her use of taxpayer-funded drivers for private trips. Ms Haylen apologised, saying she did not break the rules in the Minister's Office Handbook ...

Jo Ellis, a Virginia Army National Guard helicopter pilot, was misidentified as the captain of the downed Black Hawk. Following the huge uproar on social media, Ellis, who is transgender, posted a ...

“100 Great British Drawings,” a major exhibition at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, traces the practice of drawing in Britain from the 17th through the mid-20th century, ...

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Marla Jo Fisher was a workaholic hard news reporter before she adopted two children from foster care at age 46, picked up a scruffy dog along the way and somehow managed to keep them all alive ...

Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A statement said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan ...