Joan Plowright met the love of her life in husband Laurence Olivier. Their marriage was a tale of two thespians since they met in the theatre. Against all odds, with two decades between them in ...

She was a star of stage and screen for more than 70 years, but her toughest role was being the wife of the world’s most famous actor, Lord Laurence Olivier. Joan featured in the 1996 re-make of ...

Laurence Olivier. She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1961 for her performance in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey. Decades later she received an Oscar nomination for her ...