Joan leaves behind three children and a legacy of unforgettable performances. Widowed in 1989 after her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, passed away at 82, she is now reunited with him.
Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver ... She played ...
DAME Joan Plowright was married to one of the most renowned actors of all time — Lawrence Olivier ... to actress Vivien Leigh. Laurence and Joan shared three children together, all of whom ...
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 ...
The actor, who was married to fellow acting great, Lord Laurence Oliver ... many of them at Olivier’s National Theatre — included Much Ado about Nothing, Three Sisters, Love's Labour's Lost ...