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

Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England.

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

and they fell in love while co-starring in the stage version of John Osborne’s The Entertainer. open image in gallery Joan Plowright, playing Rebecca West, and Jeremy Brett, playing John Rosmer ...

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

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s ...

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) By then ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing-out.