Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File) Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play,

British actor Joan Plowright, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, has died aged 95, her family said on Friday. Plowright made her on-screen debut in 1956's "Moby Dick" before gaining wider recognition in the 1960 film adaptation of "The Entertainer" alongside Laurence Olivier,

The British actress died surrounded by her loved ones at Denville Hall in England, her family said in a statement.

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 ...

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.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright, one of the most notable British actresses of her generation, has died at 95.

Theatres across London’s West End will dim their lights for two minutes at 7pm on Tuesday 21 January in remembrance of renowned British stage and screen actress Dame Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, who died earlier this week at the age of 95. pic.twitter.com/ztTtdJZuIC

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,

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.

At the end of Monday night’s performance of Summer 1954, actor Nathaniel Parker stepped forward to invite the audience to remember Dame Joan who died last week at the age of 95. Parker invited the audience to hold her in mind in silence for a moment or two and then applaud her memory. He recalled her as a “very special lady.”

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