Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th ...

She starred in West Midlands-born John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Royal Court in 1957 and its screen adaptation in 1960. In 1959, she played the lead in Roots by east London’s Arnold Wesker at ...

Plowright is known for paving the way at the English Stage Company at the Royal Court and National Theatre, led by her second husband Laurence Oliver. She earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a ...

She also stunned Eugene Ionesco's "The Chairs" and George Bernard Shaw's two main female roles, "Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan." Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and ...

In 1961, Joan won a Tony Award for her role as Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste Of Honey on Broadway, alongside Dame Angela Lansbury.

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

In 1961 she won a Tony Award for the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey on Broadway, which saw her star opposite the late Dame Angela Lansbury playing her mother.

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage and screen died Thursday, Jan. 16, The Guardian reports. She was 95. Plowright’s family confirmed her death, saying she died at ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades ...

She went with the play to Broadway and later earned a Tony award playing Jo, the pregnant teenager in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, with Angela Lansbury in the role of her mother.