Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A statement said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan ...

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 ...

Dame Joan Plowright was born on October 28 ... London's West End in the 1950s and first appeared alongside Olivier in John Osborne's The Entertainer at the royal court in 1957.

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... 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 ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the ... in Tony Richardson’s brilliant 1960 film “The Entertainer,” based on the play by John Osborne and featuring a tour de force performance ...

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actor and ... “Saint Joan” and collaborated with leading playwrights such as John Osborne and Shelagh Delaney, alongside peers like Albert Finney and ...

One of the UK’s most celebrated stage and screen stars, and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95. View on euronews ...

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

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the ... It was through the foremost of these Angry Young Men, John Osborne, that Plowright became involved with Olivier in 1957 when she was 28 and ...