We’ve lost another Hollywood icon. Angela Lansbury, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV show Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96. Here’s what you need to know.
Lansbury, who spent part of her life living in Ireland, “died peacefully in her sleep,” her family confirmed in a statement. They said: “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday.”
Murder, She Wrote Star Angela Lansbury Dies At Age 96
Lansbury was born on October 16th, 1925 in central London. Her parents were Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. Her career on stage and screen spanned over 80 years and she was a three-time Oscar nominee.
She earned nominations as Best Supporting Actress for two of her first three films, Gaslight (1945) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1946). She was nominated again for Best Supporting Actress in 1962 for The Manchurian Candidate and her deadly portrayal of a Communist agent – the title character’s mother.
She received an honorary Oscar in 2013 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Lansbury, who was 88 at the time, told the Los Angeles Times: “It’s very, very special for me. It is very unique and wonderful to receive at my time of life though I am still in the running – doing things and acting.”
She also won five Tony awards, most recently in 2009 for Best Featured Actress for Blithe Spirit. Her other Tony wins were for Best Actress in a Musical for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 1979, Gypsy in 1975, Dear World in 1969 and Mame in 1966. Lansbury took her singing skill from Broadway to the big screen in Disney’s 1991 animated musical Beauty and the Beast.
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