Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II ...

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) A prominent role in ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright ... made her retire,” the family said. Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.

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 ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage career reached ... Her marriage in 1961 to the then Sir Laurence (later Lord Olivier) after they had co-starred in John Osborne’s hit play The ...