Lady Angela Lansbury, who starred in the hit TV series The Murder She Wrote, has died at the age of 96.
The actress died peacefully at her Los Angeles home earlier Tuesday, just five days before her birthday, her family said.
The London-born star has won five Tony Awards for his Broadway performances and was nominated for three Oscars, and in 2013 received an honorary Oscar for his lifetime achievement in film.
On the big screen, she was credited for roles in “The Handlebar and the Broom” (1971), “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962), “Anastasia” (1997) and 1991’s “Beauty and the Beast” Famously, she is the voice of Mrs Potts.
From left: Claude Adkins, Angela Lansbury and Tom Bosley on Murder, she wrote in the 1990s
Lansbury played author and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher in the crime drama Murder, which began in 1984. The show performed well in ratings prior to its 11th year.
Her mature demeanor prompted producers to cast her as an actor much older than her actual age. In 1948, when she was 23, Lansbury dyed her hair in gray streaks so she could use yen for Spencer Tracy to play a forty-something newspaper publication in the State of the Union address business.
She won Tony Awards for Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975) and Sweeney Todd (1979).
In 2009, she won her fifth Tony Award, Best Actress for Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit,” and in 2015 The Oliver Award for the role. Then in June of this year, she received the Tony Lifetime Achievement Award.
She was nominated for Academy Awards for two of her first three films, Gaslighting (1945) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1946), and in 1962 for her role as a Communist The “Manchurian Candidate” was once again nominated for the same category of agent.
She holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations (15), the best actress in a TV series (4) and the most Emmy nominations for a TV actress (12).
In a 2008 interview, Lansbury said she still welcomed the right script, but didn’t want to play “an old, sick woman.”
“I want women my age to be represented in their own way as vital, productive members of society,” she said.
“I’m amazed how much I’ve managed to pack in the years I’ve been in the business. And I’m still here.”
In a statement, her family said: “In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she has three grandchildren, Peter, Catherine and Ian, and five great-grandchildren and her brotherhood. Filmmaker Edgar Lansbury.
“She was executed by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw.
“A private family ceremony will take place at a to-be-determined date.”