She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at the London Palladium.

She joined the Maenads disregarding her pregnancy, and got into labor when she was dragging a sacrificial bull by the horns.

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

She was joined by her sister Lydia who shared an apartment with her.

She also joined the Literary Club and had two stories published in the yearbook: Little Sister and Sergeant Terry.

" She joined his band in 1941 and stayed for two years.

She also joined the Pep Club, the National Honor Society, National FFA Organization and Paperdoll Queen.

She then began dating Kevin Gilbert and joined him in an ad hoc group of musicians known to everyone in the group as the " Tuesday Music Club.

She also joined Temple's summer program at Tennessee State and trained regularly and raced with his Tigerbelles for two years.

She joined her first band " The Changing Times " while attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California.

She was attending a high school party and saw Buckingham playing " California Dreamin '", and joined in with the harmony.

She has spoken of being embarrassed about handing President Bill Clinton a silenced tambourine when he joined Fleetwood Mac on stage.

She was joined by guitarist Marc Ribot and percussionist Jay Bellerose.

She was joined there by her daughter, Edith of Wilton, who lived there as a nun until her death.

She is soon joined by Freder and Josaphat, who help her rescue the children and escape to the upper levels of the city via an escape ladder.

She also joined the choir in the finale of " O Holy Night ". Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

She first aligned with Sean and Vecepia who readily joined her.

She introduced him to Transactional Analysis therapists and joined him in meditation twice a day, ( given to him by Harriet Levy ), and cooked him a macrobiotic diet.

She joined Earth First!

She also joined Earth First!

She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers ' satire I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

She soon became involved with the suffrage movement and joined her mother at speaking events.

She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances.

" She won the Olivier Award for her performance.

She was a prolific stage performer, frequently in collaboration with her then-husband, Laurence Olivier, who directed her in several of her roles.

She remarked to a journalist, " I've cast myself as Scarlett O ' Hara "; and The Observer film critic C. A. Lejeune recalled a conversation of the same period in which Leigh " stunned us all " with the assertion that Olivier " won't play Rhett Butler, but I shall play Scarlett O ' Hara.

She said to Laurence Olivier on a long-distance call, " Puss, my puss, how I hate film acting!

She and Olivier mounted a stage production of Romeo and Juliet for Broadway.

She fell into a deep depression that hit the low point when she turned on Olivier, verbally and physically attacking him until she fell to the floor, sobbing.

She became Lady Olivier ; and, after their divorce, per the style granted the divorced wife of a knight, she became socially known as Vivien, Lady Olivier.

She played opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial ( 1962 ).

She rose to prominence in 1961 playing Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has since made more than 35 appearances on London's West End and Broadway, winning both the Tony and Olivier Awards.

She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Actress of the Year in a Revival in 1984 for The Aspern Papers

She has acted with the National Theatre in London where, in September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.

She has won multiple awards for performances on the London stage, including a record six Laurence Olivier Awards.

She married French director Olivier Assayas in 1998.

She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 West End production, directed by her boyfriend Sam Mendes.

She appeared opposite Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in the award-winning 1975 television film Love Among the Ruins and had a recurring role as Gran in the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part.

His other stage appearances included musicals such as She Loves Me, Gigi ( as Gaston ), and Stephen Sondheim's Follies ( as Benjamin Stone ), for which he won another Olivier Award.

She went on to appear as Cathy in her most famous film, Wuthering Heights ( opposite Laurence Olivier ; 1939 ), as George Sand in A Song to Remember ( 1945 ) and as the Empress Josephine in Désirée ( 1954 ).

She played another Jane in Pride and Prejudice ( 1940 ) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, and supported Ann Sothern in Maisie Was a Lady ( 1941 ).

She starred opposite Laurence Olivier in The Ebony Tower ( 1984 ), also appeared on Kavanagh QC and Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

She studied at the Paris Conservatoire and became one of Olivier Messiaen's most avid pupils.

She was invited to join The National Theatre for its inaugural season at the Old Vic, working with such directors as Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, and Noël Coward in roles such as Rose in The Recruiting Officer, Barblin in Andorra, Jackie in Hay Fever, Kattrin in Mother Courage, Miss Prue in Love for Love, and Margaret in Much Ado About Nothing which kept her busy for the next three years.

She also regularly performs on the stage and won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of Nine and an Olivier Award for her role as Miss Adelaide in the West End revival of Guys and Dolls.