Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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.