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 ...

LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the ...

Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier met in the cast of “The Entertainer” at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1956. Jan. 1, 1993 Her first marriage was to Roger Gage in 1953; they divorced in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel in 1999. Suzanne Plunkett/AP, file Share LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone ... scholarship to study at the prestigious Old Vic Theatre School in London. In 1954 she made her London stage debut, and two years she later ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress ... then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theatre in London. In 1954, she made her London stage debut and became ...

Actor Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.(Suzanne Plunkett / AP) LONDON — Award ...