Joan Plowright’s Prolific Screen Life : Movies: Laurence Olivier’s widow’s recent roles range from a crusty Victorian in ‘Enchanted April’ to Mrs. Wilson in ‘Dennis the Menace.’ ...

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

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actress whose career was often overshadowed by the fame of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier and his ex-wife, Vivien Leigh, has died at the age of 95.

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors ... The other was for her portrayal of Joseph Stalin’s mother-in-law in an HBO movie about the former Soviet leader. Plowright made her ...

Roger Ebert said, “Joan Plowright might seem like an unlikely choice as the mother, but gets the movie’s biggest laugh in a bedside scene.” The actress also did television and was nominated ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen ... Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence ...