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Oct 11, 2022 · Angela Lansbury, who enjoyed an eclectic, award-winning movie and stage career in addition to becoming America’s favorite TV sleuth in “Murder, She Wrote,” has died, according to a statement from...
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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British and American actress. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television.
- Early Life
- Movie Career
- Broadway Success
- An Iconic TV Role
- Later Career
- Lansbury on Being Identified as Jessica Fletcher
The London-born star was the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. Born Oct. 16, 1925, she began acting as a young girl – as she told it, playing characters was how she coped with her father’s death when she was 9 years old. As she grew into her teenage years, she became a devoted moviegoer who studied music...
Only a few years after immigrating to America, Lansbury landed her first film role, and it was a hit. She played scheming maid Nancy Oliver in “Gaslight” (1944), and she received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. Her second film, “National Velvet” (1944), would bring her a lifelong friend in her co-star, Elizabeth Taylor (193...
Lansbury appeared in dozens of films in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, and in 1966, she launched another successful facet of her career – musical theater on the Broadway stage. She starred in the title role of “Mame,” putting her childhood music lessons to good use as she won a Tony Award. It was the first of five Tonys she would win – “Dear World,” “Gy...
In 1984, Lansbury took on her most iconic role, one that would last 12 years and bring her face into households worldwide each week. Playing detective novelist Jessica Fletcher – who also had a penchant for solving real-world mysteries – Lansbury made “Murder, She Wrote” a popular CBS hit – initially with an audience of mostly older adults, but soo...
The broad fame Lansbury gained while starring on “Murder, She Wrote” led to other popular roles, such as voicing Mrs. Potts in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” (1991). Though Lansbury was in her 70s when “Murder, She Wrote” ended in 1996, her career was far from over. She continued to appear on Broadway, on TV and in films including “Nanny McPhee,” ...
“It’s OK with me. She’s a character known worldwide. She speaks every language; she’s in every country. She seems to be a universal woman that the world really likes, accepts and recognizes me for. That, I would say, was my most far-reaching role in my theatrical life.” —from a 2018 interview with People magazine
Oct 12, 2022 · Angela Lansbury, a Tony Award-winning actor who captured television viewers as the star of the hit series 'Murder, She Wrote,' has died. She was 96.
Oct 11, 2022 · Angela Lansbury, Star of Film, Stage and ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ Dies at 96. She was a Hollywood and Broadway sensation, but she captured the biggest audience of her career as the TV sleuth...
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Oct 12, 2022 · Dame Angela Lansbury, who won international acclaim as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96. The three-time Oscar nominee had a career spanning eight decades,...
Oct 11, 2022 · She was 96. Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her three children. She died five days shy of her 97th birthday. Lansbury won five Tony Awards for...
