It seems only fitting that the love affair between two of Britain's greatest actors started in the theatre. It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the ...

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 ...

The British actress, who was married to the legendary actor and director Lord Laurence Olivier, died surrounded by her loved ones at Denville Hall in England, her family said in a statement. “She ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and ... He was still married to Gone With The Wind star Vivien Leigh at the time, and Plowright was married to her first husband Roger Gage.

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... as had Olivier’s 20-year union with Vivien Leigh. Plowright and Olivier were married in Connecticut in 1961, while both were starring on Broadway, he in “Becket” ...

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

DAME Joan Plowright was married to one of the most renowned actors of all time — Lawrence Olivier. Joan sadly passed away surrounded by her family on January 16, 2025. A family statement said: ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the ... that scandalously ended his two-decade marriage to brilliant but mentally ill actress Vivien Leigh. Plowright, who was also married ...

You’re no oil painting, but you’ve got the spark. Just thank God you’ve got my legs, and not your father’s," her mother once told her.

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the ...

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of ... in 1957 when he was still married to Gone With The Wind star Vivien Leigh, and they fell in love while co-starring in the stage version ...