Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier ... she co-starred with her future husband Olivier in the original London production of Osborne’s "The Entertainer." ...

Theaters in London's West End will dim their lights for two minutes in honor of the legendary actress, who was also nominated ...

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

Veteran actress Joan Plowright, a two-time Golden Globe and Tony award winner who was married to Laurence Olivier, has died.

Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of ...

Joan Plowright, the celebrated English actor whose career included the films 'Enchanted April,' 'The Entertainer' and ...

Plowright with her husband, actor and director Laurence Olivier. Plowright retired from acting in 2014 ... after being made a ...

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who stumbles upon a London hotel full of older eccentrics. She made her Broadway debut in Ionesco’s “The Chairs and the ...

Dame Joan Plowright, the venerable stage and screen actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died ... by her family at Denville Hall, the London retirement home for actors, on Jan. 16.

LONDON (AP) — 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 ...