Award-winning actor Dame Joan Plowright, the widow of Lord Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95, her family has announced. A statement said: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away peacefully on January 16 2025 surrounded by her family at Denville Hall aged 95.

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

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.

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.

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning performances in TV biopic Stalin and Enchanted April,

Advocacy for necessary change around gender and disability as well as race will continue with future generations of actors. Joan Plowright's legacy as one of the most subtly powerful inventors of the class revolution of post-war British theatre is secure.

Dame Joan won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award in an illustrious career spanning more than six decades

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage ... She became enduringly identified with John Osborne’s “The Entertainer” and Shelagh Delaney’s “A Taste of Honey,” both seminal ...

Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright has died, aged 95. Her family said in a statement on Friday that she died the previous day in the presence of her loved ones at Denville Hall, a retirement home for artists in southern England. She was conferred the title of Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

Award-winning British actress 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,

Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of ... that accompanied the Oliviers’ break-up, Plowright took Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey to Broadway, where it opened the night before ...

Oscar nominee Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning performances in TV biopic Stalin and Enchanted April, for which she was also nominated for an Academy Award.