The couple married in 1940, but divorced 20 years later in 1960 Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in John Osborne’s play, The Entertainer in 1958Credit: AP The relationship ...

Joan Plowright met the love of her life in husband Laurence Olivier. Their marriage was a tale of two thespians since they met in the theatre. Against all odds, with two decades between them in ...

The Entertainer, however ... rebellion," Plowright would recall in her memoir And That's Not All, "that Laurence Olivier, king of the Establishment, suddenly and unexpectedly propelled himself." ...

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 won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award in an illustrious career spanning more than six decades ...

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

The Entertainer, however, wasn't an obvious pick for an actor of Olivier's training ... "It was into the maelstrom of this left-wing and radical rebellion," Plowright would recall in her memoir And ...