LONDON — 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. She was ...

She won many accolades — and was honored with a damehood — during a seven-decade career on the London stage, in film and on Broadway. By Anita Gates “Maestro” isn’t the first time a supersize sniffer ...

She won a Tony, was nominated for an Oscar and was married to Laurence Olivier for nearly three decades. By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British stage ...