For most of his adult life, stage legend and Oscar-winning actor Laurence Olivier swam daily. “He really made it a commitment,” recalls his son Richard Olivier to Closer. “He would swim 30 lengths, ...

The annual event, which celebrates excellence in London and West End theatre, as well as opera, dance, and family shows, is ...

Three actors who have played Shakespeare's Othello, from left: Laurence Fishburne on film in 1995, Laurence Olivier in offensive blackface in 1965, James Earl Jones in 1981. (Hulton Archive / Getty ...

The Olivier Awards have set the date for their 2026 ceremony, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the awards. Learn more ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She ...

There, the budding actor enlivened the living room with china and a low-slung sofa accented with warm-toned pillows.

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in her ...

Today marks the centennial of the birth of the 20th century's greatest classical actor. Laurence Olivier was also a 1940s matinee idol who married... Laurence Olivier: One of a Kind, Twice Over He was ...

IN FEBRUARY 1940 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh attended the 12th Academy Awards ceremony. Olivier was nominated as best actor for his performance as Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights”; Leigh won ...

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

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