Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence ... between occasional acting gigs and raising her three children by Olivier, then returned ...

The widow of Sir Laurence Olivier had a career span more than 60 years, which included an Oscar nomination for 1991′s “Enchanted April.” She married Olivier in 1961 after starring with him ...

The actor, who was married to fellow acting great, Lord Laurence Oliver from 1961 to ... Four years later, Plowright appeared with Olivier, who was 22 years older than her, in the original ...

Plowright made her on-screen debut in 1956’s “Moby Dick” before gaining wider recognition in the 1960 film adaptation of “The Entertainer” alongside Laurence Olivier, whom she later married.

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe ...

Dame Joan was part of an "extraordinary" acting company that her husband ... "And she had the not very easy task of being Laurence Olivier's wife while Laurence Olivier was running the theatre ...

Supremely dignified in later years, Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence ... retired from acting in 2014 ...