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 for an Oscar and Emmy during her storied career.

Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

Sir Laurence Olivier was a figure like no other. People often refer to him as the greatest actor of his generation—if not of ...

Her family said in a statement that she died surrounded by family at Denville Hall in London. "She enjoyed ... as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's ...

Born in Scunthorpe, Plowright became a leading lady in London's West End in the 1950s ... "And she had the not very easy task of being Laurence Olivier's wife while Laurence Olivier was running the ...

who stumbles upon a London hotel full of older eccentrics. She made her Broadway debut in Ionesco’s “The Chairs and the Lesson,” directed by Tony Richardson, in 1958, a year in which she also appeared ...

London's West End theatres will dim their lights for two minutes to honor the memory of Dame Joan Plowright, an icon of British theatre and film who died.

Read full article: Man killed in I-95 shooting in Broward County LONDON – Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

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.