Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s ...
Despite the age difference — Olivier was 51, Plowright 27 — the actor was smitten with the star. "I went to see The Country ...
Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the ...
Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage career reached even greater heights after the death of her husband, ...
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 ...