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 ...

Spotted in New York in 1960, Dame Joan wrapped up warm in a beautiful wool coat with panelled lapels and a insulating yet ...

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 ...

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