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Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright's West Sussex home hits the market for £2 million

The former malthouse was Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright’s family home for more than 60 years

Evening Standard

Laurence Olivier’s former voice coach now considered UK’s ‘oldest’ podcaster

George Hall is said to be the ‘oldest’ podcaster in the UK after creating a short-series podcast about his encounters with various actors.

The Independent UK

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

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Costume designer who won Oscars for her work on the film epic Doctor Zhivago and for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 Henry V

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Alternatives to prison are vital for convicts and their families

Abolishing custodial sentences of less than two years would protect some of the country’s most vulnerable children

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright – a leading actress in British theatre’s post-war class revolution

Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95, was an actress of enormous and wide-ranging talent across a 60-year stage and screen career. Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation – particularly…

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The week in theatre: Oliver!; The Devil May Care review – consider yourself entertained

Lionel Bart’s great musical is a gift for Matthew Bourne; a nifty reworking of Shaw’s comedy would surely have pleased him; and a fresh start for Welsh theatre

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‘She would have been in awe of him’: how Laurence Olivier gave Margaret Thatcher private seduction lessons

New drama, When Maggie Met Larry, reveals exactly how the world’s most famous actor coached the fledgling Iron Lady

The Guardian - UK

UK Film, Theatre Legend Joan Plowright Dies, Aged 95

Oscar-nominated English actor Joan Plowright, acknowledged as one of the leading actors of her generation, has died at the age of 95, her family said on Friday.

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Dame Joan Plowright obituary

Stage and screen star who was part of a radical generation of actors responsible for establishing the National Theatre

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‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: in fact, Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age

Her film breakthrough in 1960’s The Entertainer was a harbinger of the calmness and strength she brought as a distinguished character actor – and as her lovable self in Nothing Like a Dame

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright’s agent promised to find role Judi Dench ‘hasn’t got her paws on’

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

Evening Standard

‘Just call me Joan’: Beloved star of stage and screen Dame Joan Plowright

The widow of Lord Olivier was one of the outstanding actresses of her age.

Evening Standard

Dame Joan Plowright dead at 95

Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age 95, her family have announced.

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Joan Plowright was a dynamic force for change in British theatre

The remarkable actor symbolised a radical new generation to her husband Laurence Olivier’s theatrical establishment

The Independent UK

Dame Joan Plowright death: Oscar-nominated actress dies, aged 95

Plowright was the widow of Laurence Olivier and won two Golden Globes during her career

The Independent UK

Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died

Evening Standard

Dame Joan Plowright, award-winning actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, dies age 95

Dame Joan won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award in an illustrious career spanning more than six decades

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Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright dies aged 95

The widow of Lord Olivier won Golden Globes for Enchanted April and Stalin.

The Guardian - UK

Joan Plowright, celebrated star of stage and screen, dies aged 95

Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in the West End

Total Film

Wolf Man director says he felt pressure to live up to The Invisible Man with his new horror movie: "It's an addictive drug"

Exclusive: Leigh Whannell gets candid ahead of the release of his second Universal Monsters movie

Evening Standard

Doctor Who star Tom Baker made MBE for services to TV

The actor played the fourth Doctor between 1974 and 1981.

The Guardian - UK

‘At my signal, unleash hell!’ What the Gladiator films tell us about 21st-century men

Paul Mescal’s thoughtful Lucius is worlds away from Russell Crowe’s stony Maximus, 24 years ago. Why have our masculine ideals changed so much?

The Guardian - UK

Lend me your ears: great Shakespearean actors given hi-tech talking portraits

A radical new exhibition celebrates stars including Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart by combining subtly moving artworks with their own voices. The results are uncanny

The Guardian - UK

When Laurence Olivier revealed the secrets behind his wax nose

Letter: Bill Gilmour relates André Morell’s tale of being advised by Olivier that mortician’s wax and a red lipstick made all the difference

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