Actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright first met while working on The Country Wife in 1956. Olivier, who was already a huge name in British theater, was blown away by Joan's ...

A star first in theater and later on screen, Plowright was also the wife of the great actor Laurence Olivier. “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform ...

Dame Joan Plowright, a British acting titan whose partnership with her late husband Sir Laurence Olivier turned the British theatre scene into one of the finest in the world, has died at the age of 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 ... wife of the world’s most famous actor, Lord Laurence Olivier.

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 ...

British actress Joan Plowright ... later years, Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title ...