Actor Joan Plowright helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in Lodon's West End
Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in Lodon’s West EndThe actor Joan Plowright, who was celebrated for her long career in theatre and film, has died at the age of 95, her family have announced.
“She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire. The US film director Paul Feig was among those paying tribute. He said that working with Plowright on his first feature film, I Am David , had been an “unbelievable” honour. “I was in over my head directing such a legend but she made it all so easy,” he said in a post on X. “I marvelled at every take she did and learned so much from her.”
The following year, arriving at George Devine’s English Stage Company, she “felt for the first time totally at home in a theatre” as she wrote in her memoir And That’s Not All. “I was in touch with people who cared, as I cared, about creating a theatre which was to do with the 20th century. I found my own voice as an actress, and an exhilarating sense of purpose.
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