Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

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 Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British ...

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 ...

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 ...

He had not at first enjoyed Look Back in Anger, but after a second visit was eager to appear in John Osborne’s next offering, The Entertainer. Meanwhile, Joan Plowright, as one of the former ...

(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.

Dame Joan Plowright, whose already glittering stage ... after they had co-starred in John Osborne's hit play The Entertainer, was the showbusiness sensation of the year. Throughout their marriage ...

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the ... It was through the foremost of these Angry Young Men, John Osborne, that Plowright became involved with Olivier in 1957 when she was 28 and ...

Joan Plowright, the acclaimed UK star of stage ... co-starred with Olivier in the original London production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer, before appearing in the film version of that ...