Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe ...

She also played Mrs Fairfax in 1996's Jane Eyre, and her range went far beyond the classics in films like Dennis the Menace, Last Action Hero and 101 Dalmatians. She also took a role in the 1990 ...

She was fine as Mrs. Fairfax in Zeffirelli’s 1996 adaptation of “Jane Eyre,” but the character has little to do. In “Surviving Picasso,” starring Anthony Hopkins, she played the ...

From corporate box seats to the cheap seats, Richard Goyder is no stranger to the Australian Open’s post-match pilgrimage.

An NHS manager has died after falling down the stairs, an inquest opening has heard. Alice Phippen, 72, was an NHS manager who lived with her husband, David, in Fairfax Road, Oxford. An inquest ...

Australia’s richest person was serenaded by a choir of staff singing the praises of their “dear chairman” at a party for Roy Hill mine workers.

most recently serving as Deputy City Manager of Fairfax. Mayor Joe Cobb says that experience and work ethic is what led to a unanimous vote for office. “Mrs. Turner is an inspiring leader ...