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.

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.

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,

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.

Joan Plowright, an English actress whose marriage to celebrated actor-director Laurence Olivier conferred on her instant rank among the theatrical nobility and who carved her own considerable and singular place on the British stage,

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,

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.

Actor Joan Plowright helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and in Lodon's West End

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day, surrounded by her loved ones.

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