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

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.

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the ...

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 ...

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

Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence ... Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony ...

Joan Plowright in an adaptation of Merchant of ... It was Beatie Bryant in Arnold Wesker’s Roots. Beatie had come under the cultural influence of an unseen boyfriend whose failure to turn ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... were directors Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, writers Arnold Wesker and Ann Jellicoe, and actors Alan Bates and Rachel Roberts ...

Although she was later to become a dame, as well as being Lady Olivier, Joan Plowright originally rose to fame playing the bolshie daughter of working-class farm workers in Arnold Wesker’s play ...

The actor Joan Plowright, who was celebrated for her ... she starred in plays as diverse as Arnold Wesker’s Roots, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara (in ...