Actress Joan Plowright died Thursday at the age of 95, her family announced.
Posted at 5:28 p.m.
Updated at 7:00 p.m.
“It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright informs you that she passed away peacefully on January 16, 2025 surrounded by her family at Denville Hall, England,” her loved ones announced in a statement on Friday. .
PHOTO CARLOS RENE PEREZ, ARCHIVES ASSOCIATED PRESS
With her husband, Laurence Olivier and actress Lauren Bacall at the premiere of King Lear in New York in 1983.
With Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, Mme Plowright is part of the trio of legends of English theater and cinema. On stage, she played the biggest roles in the repertoire and in West End creations, among others alongside her husband, Sir Laurence Olivier.
-In the cinema, she is known for her roles in Dennis the Menace, The Entertainer, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Tea with Mussolinias well as that of a haughty woman in Enchanted April, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993. That year, she starred in the HBO television film, Stalinin which she played Joseph Stalin’s mother-in-law. She then played the role of Mme Fairfax in Jane Eyre (1996).
She had a long and illustrious career in theater, cinema and television for seven decades, until blindness forced her to retire in 2014. Ironically, Joan Plowright leaves us far from the spotlight , the same day as the death of filmmaker David Lynch.
Corrigendum
An earlier version of this text incorrectly stated that actress Joan Plowright had received an Oscar. Our apologies.
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