Joan Plowright, the celebrated British actor and wife of acting legend Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95. Her family announced on Friday that Plowright passed away the day before at ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

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 he was 50. Plowright had only recently arrived at London ...

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) ...

It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95 ... Desperate to extricate himself from his crumbling marriage, he decided to take a role in John Osborne's play about an ageing music ...

She met Lord Olivier in 1957 when he was still married to Gone With The Wind star Vivien Leigh, and they fell in love while co-starring in the stage version of John Osborne’s The Entertainer.

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) ...