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 1963 film of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya featured both actors in key roles, as did the 1970 movie Three Sisters, again based on a Chekhov ... about to see now is a scene from the film by Laurence ...

The 1963 film of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya featured both actors in key roles, as did the 1970 movie Three Sisters ... is a scene from the film by Laurence Olivier," adding, "Some of you may ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence ... Masha in the Olivier-directed feature adaptation of Chekhov “Three Sisters” (1970 ...

The actor, who was married to fellow acting great, Lord Laurence Oliver ... many of them at Olivier’s National Theatre — included Much Ado about Nothing, Three Sisters, Love's Labour's Lost ...

Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier at the christening of their ... Her feature films included The Entertainer (1960), Three Sisters (1970), Equus, Britannia Hospital (both 1982), Wagner ...

Dame Joan Plowright, the acclaimed British actress and widow of Sir Laurence Olivier ... Portia in The Merchant of Venice and Masha in Three Sisters. Her film career flourished later in life ...