Joan Plowright, Acting Legend of Stage and Screen and Laurence Olivier’s Widow, Dies at 95 By Carmel Dagan. Plus Icon. ... Judi Dench and Lily Tomlin in 1999’s “Tea With Mussolini.” ...

In 2018, she appeared in Roger Michell’s documentary “Nothing Like a Dame” alongside Plowright’s fellow dames Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Olivier died in 1989.

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 ...