British-born actress Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned eight decades and created indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villains to sleuths and light-hearted comedies on film, stage and television, has died aged 96. Omar happened, his family said on Tuesday. In a statement
Lansbury, who starred as a crime-solving mystery writer in the long-running US television series “Murder, She Wrote”, according to a statement from her children, was “in her sleep” at home in Los Angeles. I died in peace.”
The statement said that the actress was just five days shy of her 97th birthday.
In films, Lansbury turned in strong supporting performances, including as a teenage Cockney maid in “Gaslight” in 1944, as the doomed Sybil in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in 1945 and The film featured his film debut as the mischievous, manipulative Lawrence Harvey. Mother in “The Manchurian Candidate” in 1962. All three roles earned him Academy Award nominations.
Nearly seven decades after his first film, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in November 2013 at the age of 88. Academy Award winners Geoffrey Rush and Emma Thompson paid tribute to Lansbury at the ceremony. Rush hailed it as “the living definition of range”, while Thompson recalled throwing a pie at Lansbury while filming the 2005 comedy “Nanny McPhee”.
