Bringing Down the House
2003
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Plowright's vision declined steadily during the late 2000s and early 2010s due to macular degeneration. In 2014, she officially announced her retirement from acting because she had become legally blind.
Oct 12, 2021 · The British actress, who married Laurence Olivier, retired in 2014 due to her deteriorating eyesight. She suffers from macular degeneration, a condition that affects the central vision and can lead to total blindness.
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Apr 15, 2021 · Due to this condition, her vision started declining, and by the early 2010s, the effects had become so severe, leaving the great and iconic Joan Plowright blind. In 2014, she announced that she was officially retiring as she had become completely blind.
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own on stage and screen spanning six decades.
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Joan Plowright. Actress: The Spiderwick Chronicles. Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation.
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May 14, 2014 · The 84 year old is now completely blind from a macular degeneration, which means that over the last decade she has slowly lost her eye sight. Her agents at Independent Talent Group confirmed the news this week.
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May 13, 2014 · The 84 year old has been suffering from Macular degeneration, a slow loss of vision, but is now believed to be almost completely blind. In April (14) she was honoured during a rare public...
