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

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 ... She worked with actors including Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins. Plowright made her feature ...

LONDON (AP) — Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers.

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

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.

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. In a statement Friday,

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,

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,

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,

Alan Kohler has been a financial journalist for 46 years. He began as a cadet on The Australian covering the Poseidon boom and bust; has been a columnist for Chanticleer in the Australian ...