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Joan Plowright, Acting Legend of Stage and Screen and Laurence Olivier’s Widow, Dies at 95
Joan Plowright, perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century and the widow of Laurence Oliver, has died. She was 95.
Though she was first and foremost a creature of the theater, Plowright made a number of prominent appearances in feature films including not only “Enchanted April” and “I Love You to Death” but “Tea With Mussolini,” Barry Levinson’s “Avalon,” the Irish-set comedy “Widows’ Peak” and, most recently, “Mrs. In 1954 she made her London stage debut and two years she later became a member of the Royal Court Theatre, where she appeared in such productions as “The Crucible,” Ionesco’s “The Chairs,” Shaw’s “Major Barbara and Saint Joan.” During a performance of “The Country Wife,” Olivier first noticed Plowright and was instantly smitten. Joan,” “Uncle Vanya,” “The Three Sisters,” “Tartuffe,” “Back to Methuselah,” “The Advertisement,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “The Merchant of Venice” and “A Woman Killed With Kindness,” among others; later she starred in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” in 1981-82, “The Cherry Orchard,” “The Way of the World,” “Mrs.
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