Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence ...

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

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright, one of the most notable British actresses of her generation, has died at 95.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England.

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...