Dame Joan Plowright recounted how her agent had told her he would find her a part “(Dame) Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on” while reminiscing with famous friends in a BBC film. Documentary Nothing Like A Dame saw Dame Joan – who died on Friday aged 95 – meet up with friends Dame Judi,

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe Grammar School before studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic. Her mother encouraged her choice of career, albeit with brutal candour.

"We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being." Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award ...

Actor Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars, passed away at the age of 95 at Denville Hall on January 16, as per her family.

(Left to right) Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, Eileen Atkins and Judi Dench (BBC/PA) PA Media Teasing her friend, she said an agent once warned her about seven-time Oscar nominee Dame Judi snaffling all the top roles. She said the American agent told her ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and ... More recently, she was famously seen reminiscing and enjoying repartee with Dame Judi, Dame Maggie and Dame Eileen Atkins in the 2018 BBC documentary Nothing Like A Dame.

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the ... she appeared in Roger Michell’s documentary “Nothing Like a Dame” alongside Plowright’s fellow dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Olivier died in 1989.

Joan Plowright, the celebrated English actor whose career included the films 'Enchanted April,' 'The Entertainer' and 'Spiderwick Chronicles,' has died at 95.

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee 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 the 1960s and ’70s.

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the previous day in the presence of her loved ones at Denville Hall, a retirement home for artists in southern England. She was conferred the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

Dame Joan Plowright recounted how her agent had told ... Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to discuss life, ageing and their careers. In the 2018 film, Dame Joan said due to her fading ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress ... including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for ...