Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, Tea with Mussolini and Enchanted April.

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,

LONDON, Jan. 17 (Reuters) — British actor Joan Plowright, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, has died aged 95, her family said on Friday. Plowright made her on-screen debut in 1956’s “Moby Dick” before gaining wider recognition in the 1960 film adaptation of “The Entertainer” alongside Laurence Olivier, whom she later married.

Veteran actress Joan Plowright, a two-time Golden Globe and Tony award winner who was married to Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95.

Theaters in London's West End will dim their lights for two minutes in honor of the legendary actress, who was also nominated for an Oscar and Emmy during her storied career.

The renowned British actress Joan Plowright, who was married to the stage legend Laurence Olivier for 28 years, died on Thursday aged 95. She passed in her native England, her daughter said, at a retirement home for actors in the country’s south.

She won a Tony, was nominated for an Oscar and was married to Laurence Olivier for nearly three decades. By Stephen Galloway Joan Plowright, the distinguished actress of the post-war British stage ...

Joan was first married to Roger Gage from 1953 to 1960, before marrying Laurence Olivier, with whom she had an affair while both were still married to others. After the affair, Jo

Despite the age difference — Olivier was 51, Plowright 27 — the actor was smitten with the star. "I went to see The Country Wife," he wrote in his autobiography, Confessions Of An Actor, "and was entranced by the Margery Pinchwife of Miss Joan Plowright, whose very name was enough to make me think thoughts of love."

LONDON -- Acclaimed British actress Dame Joan Plowright, widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.

Joan Plowright, one of the celebrated British actresses, died on January 16 aged 95, confirms family. She was an acclaimed actress whose career spanned over six decades. She was known for giving memorable roles in movies like The Entertainer,