Acting legend Joan Plowright has died aged 95

Dame Joan Plowright, one of Britain’s best-known stage and screen stars and the widow of Sir Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95.

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

She married Olivier in 1961 after starring opposite him as his daughter in The Entertainer and became a leading member of the National Theater he founded.

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

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