英国映画・演劇界のレジェンド、ジョーン・プロウライトさん死去 ９５歳

【ロンドンＡＦＰ＝時事】演劇界で活躍し、映画でも存在感を発揮してアカデミー賞にノミネートされた英国人俳優ジョーン・プロウライトさんが１６日、死去した。９５歳。家族が１７日に公表した。（写真は、英ロンドンのバッキンガム宮殿で、デイムの称号を授与された俳優のジョーン・プロウライトさん）
　家族は、「デイム・ジョーン・プロウライト、レディ・オリヴィエが２０２５年１月１６日、デンビル・ホール（俳優や演劇人向けに作られた高齢者施設）で家族に囲まれながら９５歳という輝かしい年齢で安らかに永眠したことを深い悲しみとともにお知らせします」としている。
　プロウライトさんは、１９６１年に舞台「ア・テイスト・オブ・ハニー（蜜の味）」でトニー賞を受賞した。
　舞台では夫で名優のローレンス・オリヴィエさんとたびたび共演し、１９８９年にオリヴィエさんが亡くなってからは映画界で活躍。
　映画『魅せられて四月』（１９９１年）では、辛らつなミセス・フィッシャーを演じ、アカデミー賞助演女優賞にノミネートされた。
　フランコ・ゼフィレッリ監督の映画『ムッソリーニとお茶を』（１９９８年）では、英国人俳優で同じくデイムの称号を持つ２人、マギー・スミスさん、ジュディ・デンチさんとも共演した。
　さらに、「わんぱくデニス」、「ラスト・アクション・ヒーロー」、「１０１」など、若年層に人気の映画にも出演した。
　加齢黄斑変性のため、徐々に視力を失い、２０１４年に俳優業から引退。
　この当時、「つらい」と心情を吐露しながら、誰もが人生のどこかで決断しなければならないとし、「私のように、非常に恵まれた人生を送り、幸運を手にしてきたなら、『今度は私の番だ』と言わなければならない」と語っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/01/20-19:09）

Oscar-nominated English actor Joan Plowright, acknowledged as one of the leading actors of her generation, has died at the age of 95, her family said on Friday.
A star first in theatre and later on screen, Plowright was also the wife of the great actor Laurence Olivier.
It is with great sadness that the family of Dame Joan Plowright, the Lady Olivier, inform you that she passed away peacefully on 16 January 2025 surrounded by her family at Denville Hall at the glorious age of 95.
Her brilliant career will be remembered by many, her wonderful being always cherished by her children Richard, Tamsin and Julie-Kate, their families and Joan's many friends, they added.
Plowright's career was largely played out in the theatre, often opposite her husband, but following his death in 1989 she began to find more roles on screen.
Her later film and television work introduced her to new generations, with two films in particular that took her to Italy.
In the 1991 film Enchanted April, set in the 1920s, she played the acid-tongued Mrs Fisher, for which she missed out on an Oscar to Marisa Tomei.
The other film that took her to Italy was Franco Zeffirelli's 1999 film Tea with Mussolini, set in Florence in 1935, in which she teamed up with two other dames of the English stage, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench.
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In 1993, she became one of the few actors to have won two Golden Globes in the same year, one for Enchanted April and the other for the HBO TV series Stalin.
She also appeared in films that attracted a younger audience such as Dennis the Menace, Last Action Hero and 101 Dalmatians.
Plowright won a Tony for her performance in A Taste of Honey in 1961 but then began to adjust her career to accommodate her husband as he directed the Chichester Festival Theatre and then launched the National Theatre.
This included performing alongside Olivier -- on stage she received plaudits for her Sonya to Olivier's Uncle Vanya -- although she also took time off completely to have three children.
Plowright suffered macular degeneration which gradually caused her to lose her sight, leading her to retire from acting in 2014.
It is a wrench, she admitted at the time.
But it is (a decision) that everybody has to make some time in their life and when you have had a very good life and been lucky, which I have, well you say 'it's my turn now'.
The Olivier Awards, named after her husband, on Friday announced that theatre lights in London's West End would be dimmed for two minutes in her memory next Tuesday evening.