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Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

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Award-winning British stage actor Joan Plowright, the widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95.

In a statement Friday, her family said Plowright died the previous day, surrounded by her loved ones.

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