Despite the age difference — Olivier was 51, Plowright 27 — the actor was smitten with the star. "I went to see The Country ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died ...

Joan was first married to Roger Gage from 1953 to 1960, before marrying Laurence Olivier, with whom she had an affair while ...

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

“It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away ...

Joan Plowright, the British actress who was celebrated for her long career in theatre and film but who was often overshadowed ...

It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the man who would become her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, when the acting legend visited the young ...

Dame Joan Plowright, the acclaimed British actress and widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95, her family ...

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most celebrated stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95. Her career spanned 60 years and included an Oscar ...