Dame Joan Plowright, a British acting titan whose partnership with her late husband Sir Laurence Olivier turned the British ...

LOS ANGELES — Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decadeslong career included an Oscar-nominated turn in “Enchanted April ...

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

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

Dame Maggie Smith, one of England's most celebrated ... Smith was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990, and King Charles paid tribute to her after her death, calling her a "national treasure".

From business magnate Ratan Tata and legendary footballer Franz Beckenbauer to ghazal singer Pankaj Udhas and actress Maggie Smith ... made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.

Toby Stephens and Chris Larkin, sons of Dame Maggie Smith Considered “one of the ... “dame” for her accomplishments in drama in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2014, the queen granted Smith another ...