Joan Plowright Cause of Death: Award-Winning Actress, Wife of Laurence Olivier Passes Away

Stage and screen legend Joan Plowright has passed away.
She was 95 years.
News of Plowright’s death comes courtesy of a statement from her family.
English actress Joan Plowright, UK, 17th October 1975. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Joan Plowright’s Cause of Death
The statement revealed that Joan passed away at a retirement home for actors in southern England. She was surrounded by her loved ones as she breathed her last breaths.
“She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,” the family said (via ABC News).
“We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being.”
No cause of death was revealed, but it seems that the passing was not unexpected.
English actress Joan Plowright at the South Bank in London, UK, 4th May 1973. (Photo...
She was 95 years.
News of Plowright’s death comes courtesy of a statement from her family.
English actress Joan Plowright, UK, 17th October 1975. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Joan Plowright’s Cause of Death
The statement revealed that Joan passed away at a retirement home for actors in southern England. She was surrounded by her loved ones as she breathed her last breaths.
“She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,” the family said (via ABC News).
“We are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being.”
No cause of death was revealed, but it seems that the passing was not unexpected.
English actress Joan Plowright at the South Bank in London, UK, 4th May 1973. (Photo...
- 1/17/2025
- by Tyler Johnson
- The Hollywood Gossip
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