which forced her to retire from acting in 2014. Plowright was married to actor and director Sir Laurence Olivier. They were married for 28 years until Olivier died in 1989. Actor and director Sir ...

Joan Plowright and husband, Laurence Olivier, in The Entertainer ... leading her to retire from acting in 2014. “It is a wrench,” she said at the time. “But it is (a decision) that everybody ...

In Joan, Olivier saw a different life — one where he could settle down and have more children. Vivien eventually agreed to a divorce and Laurence ... the stage because acting for her was ...

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 ...

Plowright with her husband, actor and director Laurence Olivier. Plowright retired from acting in 2014 after macular degeneration had left her legally blind. But she was as amusing as she'd ever ...