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.

In When Maggie Met Larry, Tim Walker's funny, but thought-provoking new play, he imagines how Olivier set about transforming Thatcher into the formidable character so many remember today.

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 ...

"He is one of the first action heroes," her character says, before setting up the school's film projector. "What you are about to see now is a scene from the film by Laurence Olivier," adding ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades ...