Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier ... In 1961 she won a Tony Award for the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey on Broadway, which saw ...

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was 95.

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. “I’ve been ...

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred ... s “The Entertainer” and Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” both seminal ...

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, working ...

Laurence Olivier. She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1961 for her performance in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey. Decades later she received an Oscar nomination for her ...

She was a star of stage and screen for more than 70 years, but her toughest role was being the wife of the world’s most famous actor, Lord Laurence Olivier ... won a Tony Award for her role as Jo in ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence Olivier ... by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker.