Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

LONDON -- Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Tony Award-Winning British Actor Joan Plowright, Widow of Laurence Olivier, Dies at 95 LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did ...

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, has died.

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors — including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith — Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage career reached even greater heights after the death of her husband, Laurence Olivier, was one of the greatest actresses of her generation.