Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize ... Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver ... alongside Plowright’s fellow dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Olivier died in 1989. Plowright’s brother, David, was an ...

The British actress, who was married to the legendary actor and director Lord Laurence Olivier, died surrounded by her loved ones at Denville Hall in England, her family said in a statement. “She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre,

In a rare interview on Trinny Woodall’s Fearless podcast, Dench said “somebody will always be with me” when she leaves home. “I have to [have someone] now because I can’t see,” Dench said. “And I will walk into something or fall over.

Supremely dignified in later years, Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's ... acting legends Maggie Smith and Judi Dench in the TV documentary Nothing Like ...

Joan Plowright, the British actress who was celebrated for her long career in theatre and film but who was often overshadowed by her fame as the third and last wife of Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.

Dame Joan Plowright recounted how her agent had told her he would find her a part “(Dame) Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on ... first began working with Dame Joan’s husband Sir Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre, and went on to tell the ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier ... generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much ... generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie ...

Oscar-nominated English actor Joan Plowright, acknowledged as one of the leading actors of her generation, has died at the age of 95, her family said on Friday.

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.

LOS ANGELES — Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decadeslong career included an Oscar-nominated turn in “Enchanted April” and films “The Entertainer” and “Stalin,” has died. The actor died Thursday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England, her family said Friday in a statement to the Associated Press. She was 95.