Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench,​ Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith​ ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel in 1999. Suzanne Plunkett/AP, file Share LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died.