Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British stage whose considerable skill as a performer was at times ...

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Dame Joan Plowright, the actress, who has died aged 95, was the widow of Lord Olivier (formerly Laurence Olivier), and was not only one of the British theatre’s most distinguished interpreters of new ...