In Nothing Like A Dame, Dame Joan and her famous friends discussed her husband, Lord Laurence Olivier, ageing, and their ...

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, ...

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the ...

Her family said: "It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she ...