Dame Joan won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award in an illustrious career spanning more than six decades ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

The esteem in which Plowright was held in London was evident with the news that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in her honor. Born Joan Ann ...

Actor Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars, passed away at the age of 95 at Denville Hall on January 16, as per her family. Joan had a successful acting ...

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

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actor and ... Plowright’s deep admiration in London was clear as theaters across the West End announced they would dim their lights for two minutes at ...

Theaters in London's West End will dim their lights for two minutes in honor of the legendary actress, who was also nominated for an Oscar and Emmy during her storied career. Dame Joan Plowright ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th ... then received a two-year scholarship to study at the ...

Joan Plowright, the acclaimed UK star of stage ... in 1954 and subsequently co-starred with Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, before appearing in ...

Actor Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.(Suzanne Plunkett / AP) LONDON — Award ...