Angela Lansbury, ‘Murder She Wrote’ famous person, dies at 96
Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels within side
the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved limitless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher
within side the long-going for walks TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. She becomes 96.
Lansbury died Tuesday at her domestic in Los Angeles, in step with an announcement from her 3 children.
Lansbury received 5 Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and an entire life fulfillment award.
She earned Academy Award nominations as a helping actress for 2 of her first 3 films, “Gaslight” (1945) and
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946), and become nominated once more in 1962
for “The Manchurian Candidate” and her lethal portrayal of a Communist agent and the identify character’s mother.
Her mature demeanor brought about manufacturers to forge her a great deal older than her real age. In 1948,
whilst she become 23, her hair become streaked with grey so she should play a forty-is newspaper
writer with a yen for Spencer Tracy in “State of the Union.”
Her stardom got here in center age whilst she have become a hit in the New York theater,
prevailing Tony Awards for “Mame” (1966), “Dear World” (1969), “Gypsy” (1975), and “Sweeney Todd” (1979).
She become lower back on Broadway and was given every other
Tony nomination in 2007 in Terrence McNally’s “Deuce,” gambling a scrappy,
brash former tennis famous person, reflecting with every other ex-famous
person as she watches a cutting-edge shape from the stands. In 2009 she amassed her 5th Tony,
for first-class featured actress in a revival of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit” and in 2015 received an Olivier Award within side the role.