Advocacy for necessary change around gender and disability as well as race will continue with future generations of actors.

LONDON – Dame Joan Plowright, a venerated figure of British theatre and film who forged a distinguished career spanning ...

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 ...

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank ...

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 ...

The couple married in 1940, but divorced 20 years later in 1960 Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in John Osborne’s play, The Entertainer in 1958Credit: AP The relationship ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to ... and made a brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self-referencing ...