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

The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. “I’ve been very privileged to have such a life," Plowright said in a 2010 interview ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did ... Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins ...