They were inseparable as they performed “The Entertainer” on Broadway in 1958 and on-screen in 1960. Ms. Plowright was quickly subsumed into Olivier’s social and professional orbit but ...

Plowright first came to prominence among those unfamiliar with the English stage thanks to her work in Tony Richardson’s ...

She married Olivier in 1961 after starring with him in “The Entertainer.” In a statement published by the BBC, her family said they were “so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving ...

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 95. In a ...

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 ...

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.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright, one of the most notable British actresses of her generation, has died at 95.

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 ...

She was also a BAFTA-nominated star who earned critical praise for her performance in Tony Richardson’s 1960 film, “The Entertainer,” which also starred Olivier as her father. Plowright ...

Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960.

The Entertainer, however, wasn't an obvious pick for an actor of Olivier's training and experience. Osbourne was one of the so-termed 'angry young men', a group of politicised working class ...