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

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...

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 ...

She won a Tony, was nominated for an Oscar and was married to Laurence Olivier for nearly three decades. By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British stage ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades ...

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 ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

Joan Ann Plowright was born on Oct. 28, 1929, in Brigg, a market town in northeastern England, and grew up in nearby Scunthorpe. Her father, William Ernest Plowright, was a newspaper editor ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire. She appeared in amateur theater productions as a child, and won an amateur theater prize at age 15 and after high school did a stint at the ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe ...