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 ...

The British actress, who was married to the legendary actor and director Lord Laurence Olivier, died surrounded by her loved ones at Denville Hall in England, her family said in a statement.

British actress Joan Plowright ... an impression on movie audiences as the adoring granddaughter of Laurence Olivier's title character in John Osborne's The Entertainer in 1960.

By Anita Gates Joan Plowright, a British actress who brought an innate dignity ... Her daughter Julie-Kate Olivier said she died at Denville Hall, a retirement home for people in the theater.

Laurence Olivier. She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1961 for her performance in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey. Decades later she received an Oscar nomination for her ...

The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning performances in TV biopic Stalin and Enchanted April, for which she was also nominated ...

It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the man who would become her second husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, when the acting legend visited the young ...

Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait ... 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.

For a substantial period, the actress divided her time between occasional acting gigs and raising her three children by Olivier, then returned to her profession with gusto at the age of 60.

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 ...