The actress passed away peacefully on January ... At the National Theatre, she delivered memorable performances as Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Masha in Three Sisters.

With his wife, the beautiful actress Vivien Leigh ... among them the role of Portia opposite Olivier’s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1973); a spinster dragged into a romantic charade ...

The Olivier Award-winning actress on making the jump from the West End to primetime TV in BBC One’s new period drama, Miss ...

At the National, she played Portia to Olivier’s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice as well as roles including ... I found my own voice as an actress, and an exhilarating sense of purpose.” ...

Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright has died ... as Chekhov’s “The Seagull” to Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” Throughout her glittering onscreen career that spanned ...

as Maggie in Hobson’s Choice (1964), as Portia in The Merchant of Venice (1970) and as Rosa in Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1973-74). However, as Michael Billington wrote of Plowright on the ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait ... Chekhov’s “The Seagull” to William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” She stunned in Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” and ...

Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in her ... Advertisement,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “The Merchant of Venice” and “A Woman Killed With Kindness,” among ...

From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up dozens of stage roles in everything from Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” to William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice.” She stunned i ...

as characters from Venice begin to make their way to Portia’s Belmont home. Once Bassanio has triumphantly chosen the correct casket and claimed Portia as his bride, he receives a letter from Antonio ...

Quite the opposite. Let William Shakespeare have the last word, from Portia’s speech in “The Merchant of Venice”: "The quality of mercy is not strained/ It droppeth as the gentle rain from ...