Oscar-nominated UK actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and screen ... macular degeneration which gradually caused her to go blind, leading her to retire from acting in 2014.

LONDON – Oscar-nominated British actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and ... degeneration which gradually caused her to go blind, leading her to retire from acting in 2014.

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actress ... Plowright suffered macular degeneration which gradually caused her to go blind, leading her to retire from acting in 2014.

In 2014, ten years after being made a Dame, Joan announced she was retiring due to going blind. Confirming her ... “She survived her many challenges with Plowright grit and courageous ...

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 Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

"It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright ... the Menace", "Last Action Hero" and "101 Dalmatians". Plowright suffered macular degeneration which gradually caused her to go ...

Oscar-nominated UK actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and screen and wife of ... Plowright suffered macular degeneration which gradually caused her to go blind, leading her to retire from ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen ... acting in 2014 after macular degeneration had left her legally blind. But she was as amusing as she'd ever been when appearing ...