Award-winning British actress Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, has died aged 95.

Joan Plowright, the award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. He was 95 years old.

“He enjoyed a long and distinguished career across theatre, film and television for seven decades until blindness forced his retirement,” Plowright’s family said in a statement.

The Tony Award-winning actor died Thursday at Denville Hall, an actor’s residence in southern England. Plowright was surrounded by loved ones when he died.

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“We are proud of everything Joan did and who she was as a loving and deeply inclusive person.”

Part of a remarkable generation of British actresses, including Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, Plowright won a Tony Award, two Golden Globes and Oscar and Emmy nominations. She was made a daughter by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

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Laurence Olivier and English actress Joan Plowright in a scene from John Osborne’s play “The Entertainer,” which opened on Broadway on Feb. 4, 1958. (AP Photo)

Plowright and her late husband, Olivier, influenced the UK theater scene in the decades after World War II.

The British actress was born Joan Ann Plowright in Brigg, Lincolnshire, England. He started acting at the age of 3 when his mother ran a drama group.

Plowright spent school holidays in the summer sessions of the university’s drama schools. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Laban Art of Movement Studio in Manchester, then won a two-year scholarship to the drama school at the Old Vic Theater in London.

From left to right, actress Joan Plowright, director Peter Greenaway, actors Joely Richardson and Juliet Stevenson of the film “Drowning by Numbers” pose for a photo after the screening of their film Thursday, May 19, 1988 at the 41st Cannes Film Festival. Cannes Film Festival, France. (AP Photo/Pierre Gleizes)

In 1954, he made his London stage debut and became a member of the Royal Court Theater two years later. Plowright gained recognition in the dramas written by John Osborne. He has worked with actors including Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Anthony Hopkins.

Plowright made his film debut in an uncredited adaptation of American director John Huston’s adaptation of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” in 1956, starring Gregory Peck as the obsessed Captain Ahab.

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A year later, she starred with her future husband Olivier in the London premiere of Osborne’s “The Entertainer.” She played Olivier’s daughter in the work, and the two reunited for a 1960 film adaptation.

Joan Plowright, nominated for best supporting actress for her role in “Enchanted April,” arrives at the Music Center in Los Angeles on March 29, 1993 to receive the 65th Annual Academy Awards. (AP Photo/Julie Marks)

In 1961, Plowright and Olivier were married in Connecticut, while both were performing on Broadway – she in “Becket” and he in “A Taste of Honey,” for which she won a Tony.

“Sometimes I feel a great peace when I think of you, or when I write to you – gentle compassion and peace. A feeling without all violence, passion or painful desire… it makes me go out into the street with a smile on my face and in my heart to everyone,” Olivier wrote in a love letter to – Plowright.

Olivier died in 1989 at the age of 82. After his death, Plowright enjoyed a resurgence of active work at the age of 60.

In 1993, Plowright became one of the few actors to win two Golden Globes in the same year. He won a TV award for supporting actor for “Stalin” and a movie award for supporting actor for “Enchanted April.”

Joan Plowright, left, Laurence Olivier and actress Lauren Bacall at the US premiere of Lord Olivier’s only made-for-television Shakespearean production, King Lear, in New York, May 3, 1983. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez, File)

With many film credits to his name, he has appeared in movies such as “Dennis the Menace,” “The Spiderwick Chronicles” and “The Scarlet Letter.”

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Plowright is survived by his three children – Tamsin, Richard and Julie-Kate, all actors, and several grandchildren.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.