Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury dies at 96



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Dame Angela Lansbury, who gained planetary acclaim arsenic the celebrated idiosyncratic of the USA TV transgression bid Murder, She Wrote, has died aged ninety six.

The 3-time Oscar nominee had a assemblage spanning 8 decades, passim film, theatre and tv.

Born successful 1925, she turned into 1 of the remaining surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

Dame Angela died successful her slumber simply 5 days earlier her 97th birthday, her ellipse of relatives stated successful a assertion.

"The youngsters of Dame Angela Lansbury are bittersweet to denote that their parent died peacefully successful her slumber astatine location successful Los Angeles," the ain household said.

Born successful London, Dame Angela aboriginal moved to New York and attended the Feagin School of Dramatic Art.

She turned into noticed via a Hollywood govt astatine a solemnisation successful 1942, and fixed her archetypal presumption arsenic a maid wrong the 1944 movie Gaslight.

Her adjacent vocation took her from Broadway to Hollywood, with occurrence astatine the immense and tiny screen.

Image supply, Rex FeaturesImage caption, Starring arsenic Jessica Fletcher successful Murder, She Wrote delivered worldwide fame and made her precise rich

But it became her portrayal of sleuth Jessica Fletcher wrong the tv postulation Murder, She Wrote which won her hundreds of thousands of fanatics internationally.

She took up the relation successful 1984, and persevered for 12 years and 9 seasons.

The amusement made her 1 of the wealthiest women wrong the US connected the time, with a luck envisioned astatine $100m.

She earned Oscar nominations for her presumption arsenic the maid successful Gaslight, and arsenic Sibyl successful The Picture of Dorian Gray successful 1945, and Laurence Harvey's manipulative ma successful The Manchurian Candidate successful 1962.

She became besides fixed an honorary Oscar for beingness fulfillment, aged 88 successful 2013.

During the ceremony, chap histrion Geoffrey Rush praised her due to the fact that the "residing explanation of range".

It accompanied a beingness fulfillment grant from Bafta successful 2002, successful summation to a celeb connected the Hollywood locomotion of reputation.

After a circulate onto Broadway successful the 1960s she gained respective Tony Awards, consisting of for the portrayal of Nellie Lovett successful Sweeney Todd successful 1970.

She was made a Dame successful 2014 for services to drama, charitable enactment and philanthropy.