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 ...

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 ...

Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A ...

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

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both ... She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1961 for her ...

Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence ... Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class ...

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of ... that accompanied the Oliviers’ break-up, Plowright took Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey to Broadway, where it opened the night before ...