Dame Joan Plowright recounted how her agent had told ... died on Friday aged 95 – meet up with friends Dame Judi, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to discuss life, ageing and their ...

Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95 ... alongside her close friends, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Dame Joan found work a great solace following her husband's death, appearing in a dozen films ...

Dame Joan Plowright was a decorated actress on stage and screen ... It was where famous friends —including Maggie Smith, Alan Bennett, David Niven and Ian McKellen— came to visit, and where they ...

A seven-bedroom Elizabethan farmhouse that belonged to the revered British actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Dame Joan ... Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to name but a few. Plowright ...

Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World (with Maggie Smith) in 1984; and the title role in Saint Joan in 1963. 50 years later, she performed an extract from Saint Joan for the National Theatre’s ...

Joan Plowright ... for Mike Newell's Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British actresses (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith among them) who came into their own in ...

Oscar-nominated UK actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and ... in which she teamed up with two other dames of the English stage, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. In 1993, she became one of ...