And then in 2006, when the actress was 77, she starred in a charming if sentimental movie aimed at an older crowd, “Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont,” about a woman, seeking independence, who ...

LONDON – Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died.