“It’s a bit confusing,” she said. “I’ve got so many names – Dame Olivier and Lady Plowright. I just say call me Joan.” Looking back on her success, she said: “It’s been worth it. It’s always been a ...

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 ...

In his autobiography, Confessions Of An Actor, Laurence recalled seeing the production “and was entranced by the Margery Pinchwife of Miss Joan Plowright, whose very name was enough to make me ...

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Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone ... Osborne and featuring a tour de force performance from Olivier as a dance hall performer facing existential defeat. She was nominated for ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... I could make people look at me with more interest.” She won a scholarship to the drama school of the Old Vic Theatre in London and was ...

“It’s a bit confusing. I’ve got so many names: Dame Olivier and Lady Plowright,” she joked, according to the BBC. “I just say call me Joan.” Plowright was preceded in death by Gage and ...

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