She stunned in Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” and George Bernard Shaw’s totemic two female roles “Major Barbara” and “Saint ...

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a ...

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 ...

Actor Joan Plowright helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and ...

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

One of the UK’s most celebrated stage and screen stars, and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95.

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence ... Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan ...

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

Although she was later to become a dame, as well as being Lady Olivier, Joan Plowright originally rose to fame playing the bolshie daughter of working-class farm workers in Arnold Wesker’s play ...