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 ...

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) By then, Plowright’s ...

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) By then ...

Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne's play, 'The Entertainer' which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP) A year later, she co-starred with her future husband ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen ... granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960. Plowright retired from acting ...

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

He had not at first enjoyed Look Back in Anger, but after a second visit was eager to appear in John Osborne’s next offering, The Entertainer. Meanwhile, Joan Plowright, as one of the former ...

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage ... after they had co-starred in John Osborne's hit play The Entertainer, was the showbusiness sensation of the year. Throughout their marriage ...

(AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File) FILE - Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne's play, 'The Entertainer' which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958.

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

By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished ... It was through the foremost of these Angry Young Men, John Osborne, that Plowright became involved with Olivier in 1957 when she was ...