{"id":144488,"date":"2025-01-17T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/joan-plowright-cause-of-death-award-winning-actress-wife-of-laurence-olivier-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T13:37:22","slug":"joan-plowright-cause-of-death-award-winning-actress-wife-of-laurence-olivier-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/joan-plowright-cause-of-death-award-winning-actress-wife-of-laurence-olivier-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Plowright Cause of Death: Award-Winning Actress, Wife of Laurence Olivier Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Stage and screen legend Joan Plowright has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>She was 95 years.<\/p>\n<p>News of Plowright\u2019s death comes courtesy of a statement from her family.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"English actress Joan Plowright, UK, 17th October 1975.\" class=\"wp-image-517067 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-768x519.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-2048x1384.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-960x649.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-1080x730.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-1200x811.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1152223993-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">English actress Joan Plowright, UK, 17th October 1975.<span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Evening Standard\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-joan-plowright-s-cause-of-death\">Joan Plowright\u2019s Cause of Death<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades until blindness made her retire,\u201d the family said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/tony-award-winning-british-actor-joan-plowright-widow-117778338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so proud of all Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No cause of death was revealed, but it seems that the passing was not unexpected.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-667x1024.jpg\" alt=\"English actress Joan Plowright at the South Bank in London, UK, 4th May 1973.  \" class=\"wp-image-517068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-768x1178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-1335x2048.jpg 1335w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-626x960.jpg 626w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-704x1080.jpg 704w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-782x1200.jpg 782w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-scaled.jpg 1669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-667x1024.jpg\" alt=\"English actress Joan Plowright at the South Bank in London, UK, 4th May 1973.  \" class=\"wp-image-517068 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-768x1178.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-1335x2048.jpg 1335w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-626x960.jpg 626w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-704x1080.jpg 704w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-782x1200.jpg 782w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-scaled.jpg 1669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-1300567571-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">English actress Joan Plowright at the South Bank in London, UK, 4th May 1973.  <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Evening Standard\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-an-epic-life\">An Epic Life<\/h2>\n<p>Over the course of her long, illustrious career, Plowright won two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/01\/golden-globes-2025-the-complete-list-of-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Golden Globes<\/a>, a Tony and was nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and two BAFTA Awards. <\/p>\n<p>She was only the second of only four actresses to have won two Golden Globes in the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Her roles in the film<em> Enchanted April <\/em>and the TV movie <em>Stalin<\/em> brought Plowright a new level of international fame in 1993.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright embracing as they rehearse a scene from the play 'The Entertainer', 1957. \" class=\"wp-image-517066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-728x546.jpg 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright embracing as they rehearse a scene from the play 'The Entertainer', 1957. \" class=\"wp-image-517066 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-728x546.jpg 728w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1080x810.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-505813842-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Actors Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright embracing as they rehearse a scene from the play \u2018The Entertainer\u2019, 1957. <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Ron Burton\/Keystone\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She married legendary actor Laurence Olivier following his divorce from Vivien Leigh in 1961. The couple had three children together and remained married until his death in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been very privileged to have such a life,\u201d she told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theactorswork.com\/2013\/01\/an-interview-with-dame-joan-plowright-u.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Actor\u2019s Work<\/a><\/em> in 2010.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI mean it\u2019s magic and I still feel, when a curtain goes up or the lights come on if there\u2019s no curtain, the magic of a beginning of what is going to unfold in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our thoughts go out to Joan\u2019s loved ones during this difficult time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/01\/joan-plowright-cause-of-death-award-winning-actress-wife-of-laurence-olivier-passes-away\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage and screen legend Joan Plowright has passed away. She was 95 years. News of Plowright\u2019s 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\u2019s Cause of Death The statement revealed that Joan passed away at a retirement home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-144488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}