Advocacy for necessary change around gender and disability as well as race will continue with future generations of actors.

LONDON: Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died.

Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actress whose career was often overshadowed by the fame of her husband Sir Laurence Olivier and his ex-wife, Vivien Leigh, has died at the age of 95.

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 ... role as Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A ...

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 ...

Suzanne Plunkett/AP, file Share LONDON — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades ...

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.

The British actress, who was married to 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 her star opposite ...

The lights of London’s West End will dim in memory of the Olivier award-winning actress ... In 1961 she won a Tony Award for the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey on Broadway ...