Angela Lansbury, a Great Star Of The Screen And Stage, Has Died At 96
Angela Lansbury
The actress was 96 years old, her family announced the death. She died in her sleep on the night of October 11 in Los Angeles. Lansbury starred in Murder, She Wrote as writer Jessica Fletcher ,She Wrote actress Angela Lansbury has died at the age of 96, NBC reported, citing a family statement.
“Children of Angela Lansbury sadly report that their mother passed away peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 am today, Tuesday, October 11,” relatives said.
The actress was born on October 16, 1925 in London. She did not live five days before her 97th birthday.
Lansbury won the Golden Globe Award six times (1946, 1963, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992), including Best Actress in the television series Murder, She Wrote in 1992. Eighteen times Lansbury was nominated for an Emmy, three more times for an Oscar. In 2014, she received the so-called honorary Oscar, which is awarded for outstanding contribution to the development of cinema and for services to the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The actress was awarded five times the highest American theatrical Tony Award.
Angela Lansbury
On Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury played widowed detective writer Jessica Fletcher. The heroine of the actress helped the police investigate the murders. The series aired on CBS from 1984 to 1996, it consists of 12 seasons and 264 episodes. Lansbury has been acting in films since the 1940s, with the release of her latest film, Buttons, in 2018. However, she continued to work as a dubbing actress. The actress voiced Mrs. Potts in the cartoon “Beauty and the Beast” and Empress Maria Feodorovna in the cartoon “Anastasia”.
Angela Lansbury
Among the famous projects of the actress are the series “Lace” (1984), “Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris” (1992), “Little Women” (2017), films “Gaslight” (1944), “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945), “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), “Knob and Broom” (1971), “Death on the Nile” (1978), “My Terrible Nanny” (2005) and others.
The actress also played in the Broadway musicals Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979, Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical), Mame (1966), Dear World (1969) and “Gypsy” (1975). For each of them, she received the same Tony Award.
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