Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

Laurence Olivier’s widow Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95 ... At breakfast in 1981, Larry served her with divorce papers saying: ‘No wife of mine will appear in Peter Hall’s National ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...

Plowright was married to actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier. They were married for 28 years until Olivier died in 1989. Actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright first met ...

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.

“I realized Larry was falling in love with ... “I just say call me Joan.” Plowright was preceded in death by Gage and Olivier. She is survived by children Julie Kate Olivier, Tamsin Olivier ...

THE lights in London’s West End will be dimmed for two minutes on Tuesday in honour of award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright ... Lord Laurence Olivier. Joan featured in the 1996 re-make ...

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 ...

Suzanne Plunkett/AP, file Share LONDON — 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 ...

She stunned in Eugene Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” and George Bernard Shaw’s totemic two female roles “Major Barbara” and “Saint Joan.” Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne ...

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress ... for the 1960 film adaptation of "The Entertainer" alongside Laurence Olivier, whom she later married. Olivier died in 1989.