Joan and Laurence were married until he died in 1989. Learn all about the late Baron and Baroness' marriage.

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

It seems only fitting that the love affair between two of Britain's greatest actors started in the theatre. It was in 1956 ...

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England.

DAME Joan Plowright was married to one of the most renowned actors of all time — Lawrence Olivier. Joan sadly passed away surrounded by her family on January 16, 2025. A family statement said: ...

Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II ...

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 ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage career reached even greater heights after the death of her husband, ...

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

LONDON – Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier ... Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s ...