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 late Joan Plowright first met Olivier in 1956, when the actor stopped by the young actress's dressing room following a performance of The Country Wife. Eventually, they became friends.

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

It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the man who would become her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, when the acting legend visited the young ...

But the main and most profound reason was Joan Plowright – the young actress whose love would shape and warm the final 30 years of his life. By encouraging Olivier to align himself with the ...

Read more: Oscar-nominated actress Dame Joan Plowright dies aged 95 "More ... Olivier would flirt shamelessly with the young actress. Plowright was wary of the attention, however, believing ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... in 1956 and gained recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing ...

The British actress was born with the name Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. She started gracing the stage at the young age of 3 as her mother ran a drama group. Plowright spent ...