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 ...

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

One evening, Olivier came backstage to meet her with his then-wife Vivien Leigh. The following year, she played opposite Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne's "The Entertainer".

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

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright, one of the most notable British actresses of her generation, has died at 95.

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

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

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

The British actress died surrounded by her loved ones at Denville Hall in England, her family said in a statement.