The British actress was born with the name Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. She started gracing the stage at the young age of 3 as her mother ran a drama group. Plowright spent ...

The late Joan Plowright first met Olivier in 1956, when the actor stopped by the young actress's dressing room following a performance of The Country Wife. Eventually, they became friends.

By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress ... that had begun in the late 1950s when a handful of “Angry Young Men” took aim at the glamorous, upper-class, frivolous and ...

It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the man who would become her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, when the acting legend visited the young ...

But the main and most profound reason was Joan Plowright – the young actress whose love would shape and warm the final 30 years of his life. By encouraging Olivier to align himself with the ...

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 ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... of the Royal Court Theatre in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born on Oct. 28 ... She was Lady Teazle, the careless spendthrift young wife, in “The School for Scandal.” A year later, in 1948, she made her professional stage ...

Read more: Oscar-nominated actress Dame Joan Plowright dies aged 95 "More ... Olivier would flirt shamelessly with the young actress. Plowright was wary of the attention, however, believing ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage ... Soon she broke into the 'angry young man' movement of the 1950s. In that decade she played many leading roles and took part in an Old ...