Jen Harvie, Professor of Contemporary Theatre and Performance in the School of the arts at Queen Mary University of London ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

To escape the scandal of the divorce from Leigh, Olivier and Plowright headed for New York, where each appeared on the stage, he in “Becket,” she in Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” for which she ...

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

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English ... She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1961 for her performance in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey. Decades later she received ...

She also stunned Eugene Ionesco's "The Chairs" and George Bernard Shaw's two main female roles, "Major Barbara" and "Saint Joan." Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... She became enduringly identified with John Osborne’s “The Entertainer” and Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” both seminal ...

he in “Becket,” she in Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” for which she won a Tony as best actress in a play. Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England on Oct. 28 ...

and Joan Plowright, 26, in the role of Jean, the Palace theatre, London, rehearsing for 'The Entertainer'. (PA/PA Wire) In 1961 she won a Tony Award for the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A ...