Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, died on Thursday. She was 95. Plowright was a prominent actress of stage and screen in ...

Award-winning actress Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95.© Getty Images The British actress was married to the legendary actor and director Lord Laurence Olivier.© TV Times/Future ...

British actress Joan Plowright, who brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey and Enchanted April, died Thursday. She was 95.

FILE – Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play, ‘The Entertainer’ which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo, File) ...

LONDON (AP) — 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.

LONDON — 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.