The actor received her first Academy Award nomination for playing Joan Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic opposite Timothee ...

Only a fortunate few have won the $1 million-dollar top prize on TV's Wheel of Fortune. Since the stake was introduced in ...

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family said today. The British actress, who was married ... School at the age of 17. Her first stage appearance was in If Four ...

Before actor Monica Barbaro had the chance to meet Joan Baez — the iconic folk singer she portrayed in “A Complete Unknown” — she received a special message from her.

Joan Plowright ... including a dalliance with 20-year-old actress Sarah Miles soon after Ms. Plowright gave birth to her first child. Olivier — “Lord Olivier,” thanks to a life peerage ...

By Anita Gates Joan Plowright, a British actress who brought an innate dignity to her characters, whether she was playing an elegant, name-dropping ... has been lost. Her first big success on ...

THE lights in London’s West End will be dimmed for two minutes on Tuesday in honour of award-winning actress ... father’s.” Joan got herself an agent who thought her name “sounded like ...

Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most accomplished stage actresses ... Joan Plowright first met while working on The Country Wife in 1956. Olivier, who was already a huge name in British theater ...

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across ... An early agent disparaged the name “Plowright” as sounding like “trade… ploughs and agriculture ...

Joan Plowright ... The actress also did television and was nominated for an Emmy in 1993 for her role in the HBO telepic “Stalin,” starring Robert Duvall. Though she was first and foremost ...

Dame Joan Plowright, Oscar-nominated British actress and widow of theatre legend ... scholarship to the Old Vic Theatre School at 17. Her first stage appearance was in If Four Walls Told at ...

By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British ... talent — that helped them become household names, first in England and later the world.