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

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did ... Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film ...

The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. “I’ve been very privileged to have such a life," Plowright said in a 2010 interview ...