{"id":94356,"date":"2022-10-12T01:58:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/angela-lansbury-death-actress-known-for-murder-she-wrote-beauty-and-the-beast-roles-dies-at-96\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T01:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:58:56","slug":"angela-lansbury-death-actress-known-for-murder-she-wrote-beauty-and-the-beast-roles-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/angela-lansbury-death-actress-known-for-murder-she-wrote-beauty-and-the-beast-roles-dies-at-96\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Lansbury death: Actress known for ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ ‘Beauty and the Beast’ roles, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"
LOS ANGELES — <\/span>British actress Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned seven decades and earned every moment honorary Academy Award, has died.<\/p>\n Lansbury died Tuesday, according to her family. She was 96 years old.<\/p>\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,” the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n Lansbury, born in 1925, was the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and British politician Edgar Lansbury. Her paternal grandfather was George Lansbury, a founder of the United Kingdom’s Labor Party.<\/p>\n At age 9, Lansbury’s father died — a moment that she’s said in interviews shaped her life. The actress’ family then fled the UK in 1940 during World War II, moving to the United States where she began her acting career.<\/p>\n After signing to MGM in 1942, Lansbury’s first acting gig was “Gaslight” in 1944, a role that earned every moment Oscar nomination. The actress went on to earn two other Oscar nods for roles in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in 1945 and “The Manchurian Candidate” in 1962. Lansbury eventually was awarded an honorary trophy in 2013.<\/p>\n WATCH | From the archives – Angela Lansbury reflects on her 75-year career<\/b><\/p>\n Thanks to roles on both sides of the pond, Lansbury went on to amass five Tony Awards and six Golden Globes. She was also nominated 19 times for Emmy Awards. In 2014, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II.<\/p>\n Lansbury is best known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the popular TV series “Murder, She Wrote.” Four years into the series, which started in 1984, Lansbury’s Corymore Productions began to co-produce the series with Universal. Lansbury owned the series and became its executive producer during the show’s last four seasons. The show ended its run in 1996 after 12 seasons on TV.<\/p>\n Lansbury married her husband, the late British actor Peter Shaw, in 1949. The couple had two children.<\/p>\n