Maggie Smith — the grande dame of British ... in the Neil Simon-scripted California Suite, playing an Oscar nominee who fails ...

Maggie Smith received immense recognition for her performance in the film. The British actress went on to win her first Academy Award (42nd Oscars, 1969) for Best Actress. Despite this, the Ronald ...

Dame Maggie Smith was such a revered actor of the British stage and ... The Academy either decided that Smith did have a sentimental reason to win a second Oscar or was just too good to pass over. In ...

Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. From the 1950s to the ...

Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A statement said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

(Photo by STEFAN ROUSSEAU / POOL / AFP) Plowright was part of an era of British acting that has included the likes of Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Vanessa Redgrave. One of Plowright’s’ most ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

The role also earned her a Golden Globe win and at the same ceremony she ... Dame Judi and Dame Maggie Smith, which saw them discuss their careers and lives. In a statement, the Olivier Awards ...

Decades later she received an Oscar nomination for her performance ... about her career alongside other luminaries, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Eileen Atkins.