Vivien Leigh's life is the subject of a new book by Lyndsy Spence, "Where Madness Lies." It details the Oscar winner's struggles with mental illness and her turbulent marriage to Laurence Olivier.

James Bond, probably the most famous spy in the world, was created by the English writer Ian Fleming, but he owes his debonair personality to two Irishmen. The first was the film producer Kevin ...

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

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

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 ...