Advocacy for necessary change around gender and disability as well as race will continue with future generations of actors.

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

Shrewd intelligence and impeccable comic timing were the hallmarks of the late-flourishing film career of the great theatre star Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95.

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 ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence ...

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

Actor Joan Plowright helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and ...

Joan Plowright is shown during a dress rehearsal for the play Roots at the Royal Court Theatre in London, on June 28, 1960. The play, second of the Wesker ... in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self ...

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the previous day in the presence of her loved ones at Denville Hall ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a ...

Actress Joan Plowright is shown during a dress rehearsal for the play Roots at the Royal Court Theatre in London, on June 28, 1960. The play, second of the Wesker trilogy, was presented by the ...