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.

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,

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

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,

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress, is dead at 95. Plowright died Jan. 16 surrounded by her family, according to a family statement reported by the BBC and other British media outlets ...

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.

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,

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