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.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalise the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95. In a statement Friday,

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who did much to revitalise the UK's theatre scene in the decades after World War II, has died aged 95. In a statement on Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall,

Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was 95.

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. In a statement Friday,

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