Angela Lansbury

Lansbury won an Oscar nomination for her first role in the 1944 film Gaslight, and gained international acclaim as Murder, She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher.

She went on to receive an Oscar nomination for her first film role, aged 19, in the 1944 film Gaslight, and starred in the hit film National Velvet, as well as a steady stream of other MGM productions during the 1940s. A lead role as Rose in the West End transfer of Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy followed, as did roles in hit films and further musical theatre productions, including Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. A statement 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 1.30am, Tuesday 11 October 2022.

Lansbury's acting career extended over an extraordinary seven decades. She says she knew early on that she'd never be "groomed to be a glamorous movie star" ...

"Being Jessica was second nature to me because she embodied all of the qualities that I like about women," Lansbury said. She told Fresh Air's Terry Gross that she was "happily trapped" in the role of Jessica Fletcher, the mystery novelist who solved a murder every week. That way of acting a song served Lansbury very well when she starred as Mama Rose in the 1974 revival of Gypsy, and as the cold-blooded Mrs. "And, lo and behold, when she walked down that staircase in gold-lamé pajamas, in 1966, she was 40 years old and Broadway embraced her in a way that it has embraced few actresses in its storied history." Lansbury got the acting bug as a teenager, playing Audrey in a student production of As You Like It. Angela Lansbury was destined to become an actress; born in London, England in 1925, her mother was a leading lady of the British stage.

Angela Lansbury holds the record for the most Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for best lead actress in a television drama series.

Murder, She Wrote and other television work brought her 18 Emmy nominations but she never won one. For consolation, CBS contracted for two-hour movies of Murder, She Wrote and other specials starring Lansbury. In 2009 she collected her fifth Tony, for best featured actress in a revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit and in 2015 won an Olivier Award in the role. “I had to lay down the law at one point and say `Look, I can’t do these shows in seven days; it will have to be eight days.‘” She had achieved notice as a mystery novelist and amateur sleuth. Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award.

La célèbre actrice Angela Lansbury, connue pour ses rôles dans «Elle écrit au meurtre» et «La Belle et la Bête» s'éteint à 96 ans.

«Une cérémonie privée pour la famille se tiendra à une date qui reste à déterminer», a ajouté sa famille dans le communiqué. Son mari, l'acteur britannique Peter Shaw, était mort en 2003. L'actrice américano-britannique Angela Lansbury, connue pour son rôle d'inoxydable mamie-détective dans la série «Elle écrit au meurtre», est morte à l'âge de 96 ans, a annoncé sa famille mardi à des médias américains.

Angela Lansbury, who crooned as a teapot in Beauty and the Beast and solved mysteries as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, died October 11 at the age ...

Lansbury’s Mame won her the Tony—her first of five—and became so beloved she would return to the part more than a decade later in a revival. While MGM served as her training ground, she was frustrated by the limitations of the opportunities it provided. [was out for tea](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTWIz8kxtKE) with her mother, she met the actor Michael Dyne, who was planning to audition for an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Her father died when she was 9; and six years later, her mother picked up and moved her family to North America, as London was reeling from the Blitz. Later in her career, the actress became a sort of granny-for-all in such films as Mary Poppins Returns and Nanny McPhee, but the extent of her talent could also be measured by the menace she could hide behind her wide-set eyes. Angela Lansbury, who crooned as a teapot in Beauty and the Beast and solved mysteries as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, died October 11 at the age of 96, just days shy of her 97th birthday, her family has confirmed.

British-born stage and on television actress Angela Lansbury has died at age 96, her family said on Tuesday in a statement.

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