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.

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.

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, 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 actor Joan Plowright ... Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of ... home with old friends and rivals Dench and Smith, along with Eileen Atkins, as the four actresses reminisced about their lives in front of director ...

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The organizers of The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize have announced that the playwriting award will be presented at an invitation-only event on Monday, March 10 at Playwrights Horizons in New York City.