Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to revitalize the UK’s theatrical scene in the decades after World War II, has died. She was 95.

Tony Award-winning actress Joan Plowright died on Jan. 16 at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death.

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress ... She worked with actors including Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited ...

The new, rough-hewn, working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Joan Plowright and Sir Laurence Olivier. - Pat Candido/NY Daily News Archive via Getty ...

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...

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

The National Theatre, The Royal Court and Chichester Festival Theatre are among the institutions to have paid tribute to actor Joan Plowright, who has died aged 95

A Tony Award winner in 1961 for Tony Richardson and George Devine’s A Taste of Honey and an Oscar nominee for Mike Newell’s Enchanted April (1991), Plowright belonged to a celebrated group of British actresses (Judi Dench and Maggie Smith among them) who came into their own in the 1960s and ’70s.

As the theatre world mourns the death of Dame Joan Plowright, Chichester Festival Theatre is also remembering a key figure in its very earliest years.

Born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg ... working-class actors like Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins were her peers. Plowright made her feature film debut with an uncredited turn in ...