Murder She Wrote star Angela Lansbury dies at 96 - BBC

Dame Angela Lansbury, prima of the US TV transgression bid Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96.

The three-time Oscar nominee had a vocation spanning 8 decades, crossed film, theatre and television.

Born successful 1925, she was 1 of the past surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

Dame Angela died successful her slumber conscionable 5 days earlier her 97th birthday, according to a household statement.

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

She was noticed by a Hollywood enforcement astatine a enactment successful 1942, and fixed her archetypal relation arsenic a maid successful the 1944 movie Gaslight.

Her consequent vocation took her from Broadway to Hollywood, with occurrence connected the large and tiny screen.

But it was her portrayal of sleuth Jessica Fletcher successful the tv bid Murder, She Wrote which gained her millions of fans crossed the world.

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

The amusement made her 1 of the wealthiest women successful the US astatine the time, with a luck estimated astatine $100 million.

Tributes pursuing her decease lauded a "legend" of Hollywood.

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