Known for portraying characters that exuded the warmth and ... Widowed in 1989 after her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, passed away at 82, she is now reunited with him.

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 Olivier's title character in John ...

Dame Joan won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award in an illustrious career spanning more than six decades ...