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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name = The Lord Olivier
| honorific_suffix = [[Member of the Order of Merit|OM]]
| image = Lord Olivier 6 Allan Warren.jpg
| caption = Olivier in 1972
| birth_name = Laurence Kerr Olivier
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|5|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Dorking]], [[Surrey]],<br>[[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|7|11|1907|5|22|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Steyning]], [[West Sussex]],<br>[[United Kingdom]]
| years_active = 1925–1988
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Actor
* director
* producer
}}
| spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|[[Jill Esmond]]|1930|1940|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Vivien Leigh]]|1940|1960|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Joan Plowright]]|1961}}}}
| children = 4
| awards = [[List of awards and nominations received by Laurence Olivier|Full list]]
| works = [[Laurence Olivier on stage and screen|Full list]]
}}
'''Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM}} (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century.<ref>Hodgdon, Barbara. Shakespeare Quarterly, "From the Editor", Fall, 2002</ref> He was the youngest actor to be [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] and the first to be raised to the [[Life peer|peerage]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Picks and Pans: Pages; Midnight Sweets|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119394,00.html|publisher=People Magazine|accessdate=25 April 2012|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925211732/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20119394,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Olivier married English actresses [[Jill Esmond]], [[Vivien Leigh]] and [[Joan Plowright]].
Actor [[Spencer Tracy]] said that Olivier was 'the greatest actor in the English-speaking world'.<ref>Tracy quoted in ''By Myself and Then Some'' by Lauren Bacall (Harper Paperbacks 2006), pp. 214-15.</ref> In 1999, the [[American Film Institute]] named Olivier among the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars|Greatest Male Stars of All Time]], at number 14 on the list.
Olivier had many awards: twelve [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nominations, with two wins (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film ''[[Hamlet (1948 movie)|Hamlet]]''), plus two honorary awards including a [[statuette]] and [[certificate]]. He was awarded five [[Emmy Award]]s. He was a three-time [[Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe]] and [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]] winner. In 1976 he received the [[BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award]], a lifetime achievement award.
Olivier's ashes are buried in [[Westminster Abbey]].
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