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Joan Plowright Cause of Death: Award-Winning Actress, Wife of Laurence Olivier Passes Away

Acclaimed actress Joan Plowright has passed away.

(Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)The statement revealed that Joan passed away at a retirement home for actors in southern England. “She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,” the family said (via ABC News). Her roles in the film Enchanted April and the TV movie Stalin brought Plowright a new level of international fame in 1993.

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