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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier ... Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence ... Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of ... generation of writers — not just Osborne but also Arthur Miller, Arnold Wesker, Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. Many of the people she worked with ...