{"id":2325300,"date":"2026-03-12T19:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2325300"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:50:16","slug":"jane-lapotaire-tony-and-olivier-winner-for-piaf-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jane-lapotaire-tony-and-olivier-winner-for-piaf-dies-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Lapotaire, Tony and Olivier Winner for \u2018Piaf,\u2019 Dies at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jane Lapotaire<\/a>, the British stage veteran whose \u201cheart-stopping\u201d turn as the tragic French singer \u00c9dith Piaf<\/a> won her Tony and Olivier awards, died March 5, The Guardian<\/a> reported. She was 81.<\/p>\n

Lapotaire performed with the Bristol Old Vic<\/a>, the National Theatre<\/a> (under founder Laurence Olivier<\/a>), The Young Vic<\/a> \u2014 which she co-founded in 1970 \u2014 and the Royal Shakespeare Company<\/a> during her long career.<\/p>\n

She was appointed Cbe last year and attended the investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

Lapotaire was starring as Maria Callas<\/a> on a British tour of Terrence McNally<\/a>\u2019s Master Class when, on a break in Paris in early 2000, she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.<\/p>\n

Recovering after time in intensive care and two major operations, she wrote a memoir, Time Out of Mind<\/a>, published in 2003. (Her first memoir, Everybody\u2019s Daughter, Nobody\u2019s Child, came out in 1989.)<\/p>\n

She made it back to acting in 2004 and rejoined the RSC<\/a> in 2013 for a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jane Lapotaire, the British stage veteran whose \u201cheart-stopping\u201d turn as the tragic French singer \u00c9dith Piaf won her Tony and Olivier awards, died March 5, The Guardian reported. She was 81. Lapotaire performed with the Bristol Old Vic, the National Theatre (under founder Laurence Olivier), The Young Vic \u2014 which she co-founded in 1970 \u2014 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2325300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jane-Lapotaire-Tony-and-Olivier-Winner-for-\u2018Piaf-Dies-at.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325302,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325300\/revisions\/2325302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}