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Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals "Mame" and "Gypsy" and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series "Murder, She Wrote," has died. She was 96.
Angela Lansbury died at the age of 96. The legendary actor was a star of stage and screen, including in Beauty and the Beast, Murder, She Wrote, and Mame.
The British actress passed away just days before her 97th birthday.
Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award. She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films. But Lansbury’s widest fame began in 1984 when she launched Murder, She Wrote on CBS. Her TV work brought her 18 Emmy nominations but she never won one. She holds the record for the most Golden Globe nominations and wins for best actress in a television drama series and the most Emmy nominations for lead actress in a drama series.
Lansbury won five Tony Awards and earned two Oscar nominations and 18 Emmy nominations