As a founding member of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court, the theatre’s honorary president, and the wife of Laurence Olivier, first director of the National Theatre, Plowright played a key ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the ...

It seems only fitting that the love affair between two of Britain's greatest actors started in the theatre. It was in 1956 ...

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s ...

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

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England.

You’re no oil painting, but you’ve got the spark. Just thank God you’ve got my legs, and not your father’s," her mother once ...

Oscar-nominated UK actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and screen and wife of the great actor Laurence Olivier, has ...

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, recently died at the age of 95. While making the news public, her family said that she reportedly died quietly in her sleep at Denville Hall on ...

Joan Plowright, the British actress who was celebrated for her long career in theatre and film but who was often overshadowed ...

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

The National Theatre, The Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre are among the institutions to have paid tribute to ...