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Abolishing custodial sentences of less than two years would protect some of the country’s most vulnerable children

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly…

Her film breakthrough in 1960’s The Entertainer was a harbinger of the calmness and strength she brought as a distinguished character actor – and as her lovable self in Nothing Like a Dame

In Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Joan and her famous friends discussed her husband, Lord Laurence Olivier, ageing, and their experiences in acting.

The widow of Lord Olivier was one of the outstanding actresses of her age.

Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age 95, her family have announced.

The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment

Plowright was the widow of Laurence Olivier and won two Golden Globes during her career

Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died