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.

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

Plowright's’ family said she died on Thursday at Denville Hall, a retirement home popular with former actors in London. “We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply ...

LONDON – Dame Joan Plowright, a venerated figure of British theatre and film who forged a distinguished career spanning ...

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

"Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan." Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.

LOS ANGELES – Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decadeslong career included an Oscar-nominated turn in “Enchanted April” and films “The Entertainer” and “Stalin,” has died.

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 ...

“We are so proud of all Joan did and who she ... Barbara” and “Saint Joan.” Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger self-referencing satire “Last Action Hero” in 1993. Plowright became one of ...