Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalise the U.K.'s ...

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

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut ...