A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British actresses (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith among them) who came into their own in the 1960s and ’70s.

Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

Plowright was nasal and squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960.

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

Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, Tea with Mussolini and Enchanted April.

Joan Plowright, known for her performance in Three Sisters, Avalon and Bringing Down the House, was made Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

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

Veteran actress Joan Plowright, a two-time Golden Globe and Tony award winner who was married to Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. Plowright’s passing was confirmed by her family in a statement to The Guardian on Friday (January 17),

Dame Joan Plowright, celebrated Golden Globe and Tony Award-winning actress and widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. Plowright’s death was confirmed by her family in a statement to the BBC on Friday,

LONDON -- Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who was one half of a theatrical power couple after marrying Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England, surrounded by her loved ones.

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