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LOS ANGELES -- British histrion Angela Lansbury, whose vocation spanned 7 decades and earned her an honorary Academy Award, has died.
Lansbury died Tuesday, according to her family. She was 96 years old.
"The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are bittersweet to denote that their parent died peacefully successful her slumber astatine location successful Los Angeles astatine 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, conscionable 5 days shy of her 97th birthday," the household said successful a statement.
Lansbury, calved successful 1925, was the girl of Irish histrion Moyna Macgill and British person Edgar Lansbury. Her paternal gramps was George Lansbury, a laminitis of the United Kingdom's Labour Party.
At property 9, Lansbury's begetter died -- a infinitesimal that she's said successful interviews shaped her life. The actress' household past fled the U.K. successful 1940 during World War II, moving to the United States wherever she began her acting career.
After signing to MGM successful 1942, Lansbury's archetypal acting gig was "Gaslight" successful 1944, a relation that earned her an Oscar nomination. The histrion went connected to gain 2 different Oscar nods for roles successful "The Picture of Dorian Gray" successful 1945 and "The Manchurian Candidate" successful 1962. Lansbury yet was awarded an honorary trophy successful 2013.
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Thanks to roles connected some sides of the pond, Lansbury went connected to amass 5 Tony Awards and six Golden Globes. She was besides nominated 19 times for Emmy Awards. In 2014, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II.
Lansbury is champion known for her relation arsenic enigma writer Jessica Fletcher successful the fashionable TV bid "Murder, She Wrote." Four years into the series, which started successful 1984, Lansbury's Corymore Productions began to co-produce the bid with Universal. Lansbury owned the bid and became its enforcement shaper during the show's past 4 seasons. The amusement ended its tally successful 1996 aft 12 seasons connected TV.
Lansbury joined her husband, the precocious British histrion Peter Shaw, successful 1949. The mates had 2 children.
The histrion opened up astir her matrimony to The Telegraph successful 2012.
"We were a unit. We didn't unopen retired the satellite but we were astir excessively self-contained," she told the outlet. "He wholly controlled my vocation arsenic clip went by and made it imaginable for maine to bash what I did -- we managed it somehow, someway."
The 2 were joined until helium died successful 2003, but it wasn't Lansbury's archetypal marriage. In 1945, Lansbury joined histrion Richard Cromwell astatine property 19. The matrimony ended months aboriginal and the histrion filed for divorcement connected Sept. 11, 1946.
Lansbury told The Telegraph that aft the matrimony dissolved, she was informed that Cromwell was gay.
"It was a unspeakable shock. I was devastated," she said of learning her ex-husband was gay. "But erstwhile I got implicit the shock, I said, 'All close then, I'm going to instrumentality complaint of my beingness and spot that I ne'er wounded similar this again.'"
Still, Lansbury and Cromwell remained affable until his decease successful 1960.
Following her deed TV series, Lansbury made galore appearances successful films, specified arsenic voicing Mrs. Potts successful the 1991 animated movie "Beauty and the Beast." She besides appeared successful the 2005 movie "Nanny McPhee" and the 2011 movie "Mr. Popper's Penguins." Lansbury besides returned to Broadway successful 2007 aft a 23-year hiatus by starring successful "Deuce."
She adjacent returned to television, starring successful a play six occurrence of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit." Her quality earned her an Emmy Award information successful 2005.
Lansbury is survived by her children Anthony and Deirdre, on with 3 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
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