Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe ...

The Olivier Award-winning actress on making the jump from the West End to primetime TV in BBC One’s new period drama, Miss ...

Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A ...

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

UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre said they were honoured to contribute to the celebration of her extraordinary career.

(PA/PA Wire) In 1961 she won a Tony Award for the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey on Broadway, which saw her star opposite the late Dame Angela Lansbury playing her mother.

Theatre audiences enjoyed her versatility and good humour, and her 1961 Tony-winning Broadway role A Taste of Honey saw her play a troubled teenager, with Angela Lansbury as her mother.

In 1961 Dame Joan won a Tony Award for the role of Jo in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, on Broadway, in which she starred opposite the late Dame Angela Lansbury playing her mother.

Dame Joan’s wedding to Lord Olivier in 1961 was the sensation of the year, and their marriage was an enduring ... her star opposite the late Dame Angela Lansbury playing her mother.