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,

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,

I was fumbling my way through my mid-teens just as Joan Plowright was entering her twilight years as a stage-actress. I must have seen her in the hugely accomplished production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba starring Glenda Jackson at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1986,

LONDON — 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.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play: Joan Plowright won.

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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 95.

Dame Joan Plowright, the actress, who has died aged 95, was the widow of Lord Olivier (formerly Laurence Olivier), and was not only one of the British theatre’s most distinguished interpreters of new plays and the classics in the second half of the 20th century,

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.

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