Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England.

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British ... It was through the foremost of these Angry Young Men, ...

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence Olivier, ...

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

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing-out.

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 ...