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 ...

Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. Getty Images Joan Ann Plowright was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England on Oct. 28, 1929.

Her family confirmed the news of her death to The Guardian on Friday, writing: “It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away ...