{"id":94089,"date":"2022-10-11T19:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/angela-lansbury-screen-and-broadway-icon-dead-at-96\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T19:56:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:56:20","slug":"angela-lansbury-screen-and-broadway-icon-dead-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/angela-lansbury-screen-and-broadway-icon-dead-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Lansbury, Screen and Broadway Icon, Dead at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Angela Lansbury, the London-born actress who for seven decades brought a commanding, ladylike presence to stage, screen and television \u2014 especially over the 12 years she played dauntless mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS’ Murder, She Wrote<\/em> \u2014 has died. She was 96.\n<\/p>\n \n “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,” her family says in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.\n<\/p>\n \n “In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury,” the statement adds. “She was proceeded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined.”\n<\/p>\n \n Born Angela Brigid Lansbury, the future character actress (the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast<\/em>) and leading lady (Broadway’s eccentric aunt in the musical mamma<\/em>) was the daughter of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and her second husband, lumber merchant Edgar Lansbury. “A true Irish beauty” is how Lansbury described her mother in a 1993 PEOPLE profile.\n<\/p>\n \n Eager to direct her daughter’s future, Moyna took the young Angela to plays at London’s Old Vic and enrolled her in a school for the arts and dance, until the family \u2014 Angela and her younger (by five years) twin brothers, Edgar and Bruce, who both later became successful producers, and a half-sister \u2014 found itself all but broke when the senior Edgar died in 1934. Angela was 9.\n<\/p>\n \n The war only compounded the family’s situation, so in 1940 the Lansburys moved to New York, where Moyna rebooted her acting career and went on tour while Angela babysat her siblings. Relocating her brood to Los Angeles and now working in a department store, Moyna helped land her daughter a screen test at MGM \u2014 which catapulted the 17-year-old into her Oscar-nominated movie debut as the cockney maid in the Ingrid Bergman-Charles Boyer classic 1944 thriller gaslight<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n \nNever miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/em><\/strong>PEOPLE<\/strong>‘s free daily newsletter<\/em><\/strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/em><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n
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