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

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 ...

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

Theaters in London's West End will dim their lights for two minutes in honor of the legendary actress, who was also nominated ...

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, the acclaimed UK filmstar who was married to Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has said.

Laurence Olivier, and his wife ... did that the moment she left Scunthorpe Grammar School, winning a place at London’s Old Vic Theatre School, where she studied in a bombed-out building that ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...