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 was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress ... Plowright gained recognition in dramas written by John Osborne. She worked with actors including Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins.

She stunned in Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” and George Bernard Shaw’s totemic two female roles “Major Barbara” and “Saint Joan.” Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne ...

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 ...

Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decades ... In 1957, they shared the stage in the original production of John Osborne’s “The Entertainer” in London. “I realized Larry was falling ...