Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, ...

LONDON (AP) — Joan Plowright, Tony Award-winning British stage actor and wife of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95.

The British actress died surrounded by her loved ones at Denville Hall in England, her family said in a statement.

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 ...

Dame Joan Plowright, the acclaimed British actress and widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95, her family ...

Sir Laurence Olivier, when the acting legend visited the young actress' dressing room after a staging of the play The Country Wife. Despite the age difference — Olivier was 51, Plowright 27 — the ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver ... the affair started, became Olivier’s third wife — Lady Olivier — in March ...

LONDON (AP) — Joan Plowright, Tony Award-winning British stage actor and wife of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95.

FILE - Actor Laurence Olivier, center, with his wife Joan Plowright, left, and actress Lauren Bacall at the U.S. premiere of Lord Olivier's only Shakespearean production made exclusively for ...

Olivier, who was playing Archie Rice ... Plowright herself was married to fellow actor Roger Gage. But Leigh, Sir Laurence's second wife, who was troubled by mental illness, divorced him in ...