Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

By The Associated Press on January 17, 2025.

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.

“She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,” the family said.

Plowright appeared in plays by John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney and Arnold Wesker. The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

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