LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence ... She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. From the 1950s to the 1980s, Plowright racked up ...

That is, until Olivier's widow Joan Plowright recommended Anthony Hopkins to re-dub her late husband's dialogue, due to both his penchant for mimicry and having been a protégé of Olivier's ...

Joan Plowright, 95. An award-winning British actor who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II. Jan. 16.

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Pearl Harbor and World War II Joan was born in Coronado, Ca., on Sept. 7, 1935. At age six she moved with her parents to Hawaii. Her father was stationed as a lieutenant with a squadron there.