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Dame Joan Plowright, Celebrated English Actress and Tony Winner, Dead at 95
Joan Plowright, the acclaimed English actress who was also the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.
The majority of Plowright’s stage work was based in London, and after her Tony-winning performance in A Taste of Honey, she only returned to Broadway once more, when a production of Filumena(also known as The Best Hour in Naples) moved across the Atlantic in 1980. Along with Enchanted April, she delivered memorable turns in the 1990 comedy I Love You to Death(opposite Tracy Ullman and Kevin Kline), and Franco Zeffirelli’s 1999 war dramedy, Tea With Mussolini. Plowright made her last film appearance in the 2009 thriller Knife Edge, though in 2018, she partook in the documentary, Tea With Dames, in which she reminisced about her career alongside other luminaries, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Eileen Atkins.
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