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

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play,

Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London has written for 'The Conversation' on Dame Joan Plowright

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire ... 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-out. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors ...

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.

Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A statement said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright,

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the ... in Tony Richardson’s brilliant 1960 film “The Entertainer,” based on the play by John Osborne and featuring a tour de force performance from Olivier as a dance hall performer facing ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British ... It was through the foremost of these Angry Young Men, John Osborne, that Plowright became involved with Olivier in 1957 when she was 28 and he was 50. Plowright had only recently arrived ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen characters to ... audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960. Plowright retired from acting in 2014 after macular ...

"Rest in peace, Joan..." She had been retired for a decade, having lost her eyesight and been registered blind. Born in Scunthorpe, Plowright became a leading lady in London's West End in the 1950s, and first appeared opposite Olivier in John Osborne's The ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... recognition in dramas written by the so-called Angry Young Men, such as John Osborne, who were giving British theater a thorough airing-out.

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