Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred ... and Lindsay Anderson, writers Arnold Wesker and Ann Jellicoe, and actors Alan Bates ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a ...

working with Laurence Olivier at the National, and with the RSC, and appearing in landmark productions ranging from Peter Hall’s War of the Roses and The Wesker Trilogy at the Royal Court to The ...

Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier ... Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates ...

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

Arnold Wesker, Ionesco and Beckett,” she wrote later – and, she might have added, Laurence Olivier, drawn by the prospect of a part in Osborne’s next play, The Entertainer. Meanwhile ...