‘Murder, She Wrote’ Actress Angela Lansbury Dead at 96

Legendary star of movie, TV and the stage, Angela Lansbury, has died at the age of 96.

The information was confirmed by the actress’ household, who issued the next assertion to Broadway World:

The kids of Dame Angela Lansbury are unhappy to announce that their mom died peacefully in her sleep at residence in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM at present, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, simply 5 days shy of her 97th birthday. In addition to her three kids, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus 5 nice grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. She was proceeded in loss of life by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. A personal household ceremony shall be held at a date to be decided.

Lansbury was born in London on Oct. 16, 1925, and her ascent into the leisure world began at a younger age. At the age of 15, her household moved to the U.S. in order that she may examine appearing and by the age of 17 she signed to MGM the place she would pursue her first movie roles. Her first movie credit score got here with 1944’s Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman. For her efforts, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She would quickly comply with with National Velvet, alongside Elizabeth Taylor, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, with the latter incomes her her first Golden Globe nomination together with one other Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Other movie roles of word got here in 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate, 1971’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks and in 1991’s Beauty and the Beast.

But whereas she had a strong profession on the large display screen, she’s primarily recognized to audiences at present for her run as Jessica Fletcher on the long-running CBS crime drama Murder, She Wrote for CBS. The sequence ran for 12 seasons, beginning in 1984 and wrapping in 1996. But even after the sequence concluded, Lansbury returned 4 extra tv movies. Lansbury received 4 Golden Globes for Actress in a TV Series and was nominated 12 occasions for a similar class at the Emmy Awards.

In addition to each TV and Film, Lansbury had a protracted affiliation with Broadway as effectively. She took on the lead function within the standard musical Mame, performed (*96*) Rose in Gypsy and Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd amongst her many stage roles.

Lansbury was married twice and had two kids. As said, her household will maintain a non-public ceremony to mark her passing at a date to nonetheless be decided.