In the early 1960s, the British stage legend and his wife, actress Dame Joan Plowright ... recognition for playing Beatie Bryant in Arnold Wesker’s Roots. A year after the couple met they ...

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95 ... In 1959, she played the lead in Roots by east London’s Arnold Wesker at Coventry’s Belgrade and London’s Royal Court and West End. In 1960, she starred in ...

Shrewd intelligence and impeccable comic timing were the hallmarks of the late-flourishing film career of the great theatre star Dame Joan Plowright ... for her defiant Beatie in Arnold Wesker’s 1959 ...

In 1959, she played the lead in Roots by east London's Arnold Wesker at Coventry's Belgrade and London's Royal Court and West End. Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier rehearsing for The ...

LONDON -- Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... and made a brief appearance in the Arnold Schwarzenegger satire "Last Action Hero" in 1993. Plowright became one of only a handful of ...

LONDON – Dame Joan Plowright, a venerated figure of British theatre ... She also drew attention playing Beatie Bryant in Arnold Wesker’s Roots at Coventry’s Belgrade Theatre and later at the Royal ...

"Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan." Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.

LOS ANGELES – Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decadeslong career included an Oscar-nominated turn in “Enchanted April” and films “The Entertainer” and “Stalin,” has died.

“We are so proud of all Joan did and who she ... Barbara” and “Saint Joan.” Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working ...