LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ...

She won many accolades — and was honored with a damehood — during a seven-decade career on the London stage, in film and on Broadway. By Anita Gates Joan Plowright, a British actress who ...

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 ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone ... scholarship to study at the prestigious Old Vic Theatre School in London. In 1954 she made her London stage debut, and two years she later ...

Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier met in the cast of “The Entertainer” at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1956. Jan. 1, 1993 Her first marriage was to Roger Gage in 1953; they divorced in ...

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.

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 ...

Actor Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.(Suzanne Plunkett / AP) LONDON — Award ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress ... then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. In 1954, she made her London stage debut and became ...

She was 95. Plowright died Thursday in London, her family said in a statement to the BBC. “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she ...