Plowright was married to actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier. They were married for 28 years until Olivier died in 1989. Actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright first met ...

(CNN) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actress whose career was often overshadowed by the fame of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier and his ex-wife, Vivien Leigh, has died at the age of 95.

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

THE lights in London’s West End will be dimmed for two minutes on Tuesday in honour of award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright ... Lord Laurence Olivier. Joan featured in the 1996 re-make ...

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 Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

Suzanne Plunkett/AP, file Share LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades ...

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

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen ... on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960.

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain’s most respected stage and screen actresses, has passed away at the age of 95.

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II ...