Documentary Nothing Like A Dame saw Dame Joan – who died on Friday aged 95 – meet up with friends Dame Judi, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to discuss life, ageing and their careers.

Part of an astonishing generation of British actors, including Judi Dench,​ Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith​, Joan Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy.

BBC documentary Nothing Like A Dame saw Dame Joan Plowright – who died on Friday aged 95 – meet up with friends Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to discuss life, ageing and their careers.

BBC documentary Nothing Like A Dame saw Dame Joan Plowright – who died on Friday aged 95 – meet up with friends Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Eileen Atkins, to discuss life ...

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was

Dame Joan Plowright, who was married to fellow acting legend Lord Laurence Olivier, died on January 16, 2025, surrounded by her family

LOS ANGELES — Joan Plowright, the English actor whose decadeslong career included an Oscar-nominated turn in “Enchanted April” and films “The Entertainer” and “Stalin,” has died. The actor died Thursday at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England, her family said Friday in a statement to the Associated Press. She was 95.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who did much to revitalise the UK's theatre scene in the decades after World War II, has died aged 95. In a statement on Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day at Denville Hall,

Joan Plowright, the acclaimed English actress who was also the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died at the age of 95.

Her family said: "It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away peacefully on January 16 2025 surrounded by her family at Denville Hall aged 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire.

Joan Ann Plowright was born on 29 October 1929 in Brigg, Lincolnshire. Her mother, Daisy, was a keen amateur actor and by the age of three, her daughter had taken to the stage. She went to Scunthorpe Grammar School before studying drama at the Bristol Old Vic.

LONDON: Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the U.K.'s theatrical scene in the decades