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 ...

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 ...

Joan Plowright in a BBC adaption of Sheridan's The School for ... Plowright gained recognition in a series of productions penned by this group of Angry Young Men, in roles that relied on acting ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95. In a ...

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 ...

Soon after marrying Joan, he began an on-off affair with another young actress ... “She survived her many challenges with Plowright grit and courageous determination to make the best of them ...

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actor and ... Born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England, Plowright was introduced to theater at a young age through her mother’s amateur drama group, according ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage ... Soon she broke into the 'angry young man' movement of the 1950s. In that decade she played many leading roles and took part in an Old ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the ... theater that had begun in the late 1950s when a handful of “Angry Young Men” took aim at the glamorous, upper-class, frivolous and ...

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 ...