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.

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

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British actresses (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith among them) who came into their own in the 1960s and ’70s.

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,

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English actors of both stage and screen died Thursday, Jan. 16, The Guardian reports. She was 95. Plowright's family confirmed her death, saying she died at a care home in Northwood,

Dame Joan Plowright, one of the great English ... 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 ...

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. 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,

Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright dies aged 95 - The widow of Lord Olivier won Golden Globes for Enchanted April and Stalin.

Oscar-nominated actress dies, aged 95 - Plowright was the widow of Laurence Olivier and won two Golden Globes during her career

Joan Plowright, an era-defining English actress, is dead at 95. Plowright died Jan. 16 surrounded by her family, according to a family statement reported by the BBC and other British media outlets ...

Joan Plowright, known for her work in theatre, passed away at 95. Joan Plowright, renowned for her work in theatre, has passed away at the age of 95. She is being remembered by her loved ones.