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

Joan Plowright in a BBC adaption of Sheridan's The School for ... she won two Golden Globes in one year - the other coming for HBO TV movie Stalin. Her other films included Three Sisters in 1970 and ...

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 Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... Masha in Olivier’s 1970 screen adaptation of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”; the disturbing mother in “Equus,” a 1977 drama from ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated ... Much Ado About Nothing and Three Sisters, he said. "In many of these she acted alongside Sir Laurence Olivier, her partner in art and ...

Ted Blackbrow/Daily Mail/Shutterstock British acting legend Dame Joan ... Plowright made her film debut in 1960’s The Entertainer, the screen adaptation of the play, but for the next three ...

Plowright would eventually join Olivier at the National Theatre, which he founded in the early 1960s. At the National she appeared in “St. Joan,” “Uncle Vanya,” “The Three Sisters ...