LONDON – Oscar-nominated British actress Joan Plowright, a legend of stage and screen and wife of the late great British actor Laurence ... Sonya to Olivier’s Uncle Vanya – although she also took time ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s ...

Oscar-nominated English actor Joan Plowright, acknowledged as one of the leading actors of her generation, has died at the ...

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 ...

Joan Plowright is survived by three children, whom she shared with her late husband, Laurence Olivier. Learn more about them ...

Joan and Laurence were married until he died in 1989. Learn all about the late Baron and Baroness' marriage.

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 told her.

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene ... trying to put things straight.” Plowright is survived by her three children — Tamsin, Richard and Julie-Kate ...