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

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.

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

Despite the age difference — Olivier was 51, Plowright 27 — the actor was smitten with the star. "I went to see The Country ...

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 ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...

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

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...