Dame Joan Plowright, a British acting titan whose partnership with her late husband Sir Laurence Olivier turned the British theatre scene into one of the finest in the world, has died at the age of 95 ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage ... Plowright, born Oct. 28, 1929, grew up in the northeast of England and was drawn to acting at a young age through her mother, who ...

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 distinguished actress of the post-war British ... of change in the British theater that had begun in the late 1950s when a handful of "Angry Young Men" took aim at the glamorous, ...

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actor and ... Born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, Plowright was introduced to theater at a young age through her mother’s amateur drama group, according ...

Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95 ... recognition in a series of productions penned by this group of Angry Young Men, in roles that relied on acting ability rather than mere glamour.

Plowright always rated her Saint Joan at London's Old Vic theatre in 1963 as her finest work. "That is the sort of part that all young women want to play," she told the BBC in 2018. "I would always ...

Read more: Oscar-nominated actress Dame Joan Plowright dies aged 95 "More ... Olivier would flirt shamelessly with the young actress. Plowright was wary of the attention, however, believing ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... of the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving ...

By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress ... that had begun in the late 1950s when a handful of “Angry Young Men” took aim at the glamorous, upper-class, frivolous and ...