17 January 2025

PA Media Lady Joan Plowright holds her medal after becoming a Dame in 2004Palestinian Authority Media

Plowright was named Dame in 2004

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain's most famous stage and film stars and widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.

Her career spanned 60 years and included an Academy Award nomination for 1991's Enchanted April.

She married Olivier in 1961 after playing his daughter opposite him in The Entertainer, and became a prominent member of the National Theater he founded.

In 2014, she retired from the stage after she lost her sight and was registered as blind.

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