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.
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 », Plowright’s family shared in a statement.
The Tony Award-winning actress died Thursday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.
« We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being. »
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. She was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.
Plowright and her late husband, Olivier, made an impact on the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II.
