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 family are deeply grateful to Jean Wilson and all those involved in her personal care over many years. One of my favorite videos of Maggie Smith with Judi Dench and Joan Plowright. RIP Maggie ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95. In a ...

Soon after marrying Joan, he began an on-off affair with another young ... ten years in Sussex with constant visits from friends and family. “She survived her many challenges with Plowright ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Following her London stage debut in 1954, Plowright became ...

Joan Plowright ... (2005), as the lonely retiree who befriends a much younger man (Rupert Friend). In “Last Action Hero” (1993), Ms. Plowright made a jesting appearance as a “Hamlet ...

JOAN PLOWRIGHT: (As Jean Rice ... Plowright, who was 22 years younger, represented a new generation of method actors. So when they married a year after the film came out, that dynamic helped ...

15 years after Olivier’s death at age 82 on July 11, 1989. Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright ... then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Following her London stage debut in 1954, Plowright became ...