Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was 95.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Shrewd intelligence and impeccable comic timing were the hallmarks of the late-flourishing film career of the great theatre star Dame Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95.

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

One of the UK’s most celebrated stage and screen stars, and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95. View on euronews

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalise the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday,

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.