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

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 ...

At the National, she played Portia to Olivier’s Shylock in The Merchant of Venice as well as roles including Masha in Three Sisters, Sonya in Uncle Vanya and the eponymous heroine of Shaw’s ...

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 ...

Laurence Olivier, and his wife ... including acclaimed versions of Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters (both by Plowright’s favorite author, Chekhov) at the Chichester Festival Theatre, where Olivier ...

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 ...