Supremely dignified in later years, Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as ...

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 ...

Joan fell in love with the man who would become her second husband in 1956, while playing his daughter in John Osborne ... Olivier saw a different life — one where he could settle down and have more ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier ... Plowright gained recognition in dramas written by John Osborne. She worked with actors including Albert Finney ...

Dame Joan Plowright, celebrated Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actress and widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died. She ...

Joan Plowright, known for her performance in Three Sisters, Avalon and Bringing Down the House, was made Dame by Queen ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much ... by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a ...

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) By then ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did ... so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater ...