Dame Angela Lansbury, the enduring actress and singer whose profession spanned over 80 years within the leisure trade, has died, her household introduced Tuesday. She was 96.
In an announcement, her household mentioned that Lansbury “died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. … just five days shy of her 97th birthday.”
“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,” in line with the household assertion. “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.”
The London-born Lansbury was a five-time Tony Award winner, most notably for her ghoulish function in “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” She additionally scored Tonys for her work in “Blithe Spirit,” “Gypsy,” Mame and “Dear World.”
In the Sixties, The New York Times referred to Lansbury because the “First Lady of Musical Theatre”
In 1984, she achieved worldwide fame as fictional author and sleuth Jessica Fletcher within the sequence Murder, She Wrote, which ran for 12 seasons till 1996, turning into one of many longest-running and hottest detective drama sequence in tv historical past.
Before her tv profession, she was thought of one of many final movie stars of the golden age of Hollywood, having been a contract participant with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer within the Nineteen Forties.
She held roles in such basic movies as Gaslight (1944), State of the Union (1948), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Death on the Nile (1978).
Lansbury can also be identified for her roles in basic kids’s movies as Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Anastasia (1997), The Grinch (2018), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).
Born and raised in London, she moved to the United States along with her household within the Nineteen Forties to flee warfare brewing in Europe, and she or he continued her research in drama and appearing in New York. They moved to Los Angeles in 1942 as her mom, Irish actress Moyna Macgill, regarded to renew her movie profession. Through her mom, Lansbury met “Gaslight” screenwriter John Van Druten, who helped get her solid within the movie, launching her profession.
