Dame Joan Plowright, award-winning actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, dies age 65 - Dame Joan won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award in an illustrious career spanning more than six decades ...

Plowright always rated her Saint Joan at London's Old Vic theatre in 1963 as her finest work. "That is the sort of part that all young women want to play," she told the BBC in 2018. "I would always ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ...

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 ...

Actor Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars, passed away at the age of 95 at Denville Hall on January 16, as per her family. Joan had a successful acting ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage ... To honor Plowright, the Society of London Theatre announced that theaters across the West End will dim their lights for two ...

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actor and ... Plowright’s deep admiration in London was clear as theaters across the West End announced they would dim their lights for two minutes at ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th ... then received a two-year scholarship to study at the prestigious Old Vic Theatre School in London. In 1954 she made her London ...

Joan Plowright, the acclaimed UK star of stage ... in 1954 and subsequently co-starred with Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, before appearing in ...