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Director Rian Johnson has shared that he tried to teach Murder, She Wrote star Angela Lansbury how to play Among Us for her cameo in Glass Onion, but admitted that she was “not a gamer”. Speaking to The New York Times, Johnson reflected on Lansbury’s cameo in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which saw the late actress play Innersloth’s popular whodunnit game Among Us alongside Natasha Lyonne, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Stephen Sondheim, and Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). Johnson shared that Lansbury “couldn’t have been…

Long before the wizards and witches of Hogwarts were ever dreamed up, there was Miss Eglantine Price, played by the late Angela Lansbury in Disney’s 1971 classic Bedknobs and Broomsticks. Miss Price is an apprentice witch on a mission to aid the British war effort during the second world war, from the small English village of Pepperinge Eye.There she is forced to take in siblings Carrie (Cindy O’Callaghan), Charlie (Ian Weighill) and Paul Rawlins (Roy Snart), who are among the many children evacuated from London to the…

Whizzing around the fictional town of Cabot Cove in Maine in neat but mundane beige trousers, a blue blouse and gold earrings, Angela Lansbury first appeared on American television screens in 1984 as the author-turned-detective Jessica Fletcher in Murder She Wrote. Back then, no one imagined that nearly 40 years later her character’s wardrobe would still be influencing how TV crime detectives dress. For 12 seasons and over 200 episodes, shoulder-padded blazers, button-down shirts and oversized spectacles formed the…

By Mark Kennedy | Associated Press NEW YORK — Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor 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. Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her three children. She died five days shy of her 97th birthday. Hers was a 75-year career that included beloved musicals on stage, iron-fisted…

I had two Angelas in my life at one stage. Angela Carter (long gone and greatly missed) and Angela Lansbury (flew out of this world last night, equally greatly missed). There should be a ghost at your elbow, whose only purpose is to remind you how lucky you are.I would travel over to Clapham Common in south London to work with the first Angela, dissecting her short story collection The Bloody Chamber into interlocking bites and fragments of upended fairy tales that would become The Company of Wolves. I ended up with the…

Angela Lansbury, who has died aged 96, once had to step in after her daughter fell in with Charles Manson.The Murder, She Wrote actor revealed in an interview that, while based in LA, her daughter Dierdre fell in with a crowd that was led by the cult leader. In 1969, Manson orchestrated a string of killings that were carried out by his “family” of young followers.Manson ordered his followers to kill nine people, including actress Sharon Tate, who was pregnant at the time.Speaking to MailOnline in 2014, Beauty and the…

The sad news of the death of Angela Lansbury, just a few days shy of her 97th birthday, brought to an end one of the longest and most storied careers in Hollywood history. While she will perhaps be best remembered for the 265 episodes (and four feature-length movies) she spent playing best-selling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, a stint that earned her a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most prolific amateur sleuth”, Lansbury packed her eight decades on stage and screen with a host…

Angela Lansbury died on Tuesday (11 October) aged 96, her family has announced.While the renowned actor will be remembered by most as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher from the CBS hit series Murder, She Wrote, she also played a starring role as the supercilious Aunt Adelaide in 2005’s Nanny McPhee.The family favourite film starring Emma Thompson as the eponymous, magical childminder played an important role in Lansbury’s life.In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, Lansbury credited the film and Thompson with helping her…

Veteran star Angela Lansbury is no more. She was 96. As per a family statement obtained by PEOPLE, Angela, best known for playing dauntless mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher on CBS` `Murder, She Wrote`, breathed her last on October 11. "The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday," the statement read. "In addition to her three children, Anthony,…

Actor Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, on stage and on television, died at age 96, her family said on Tuesday.Angela who played a crime-solving mystery writer in the long-running US television series Murder, She Wrote, "died peacefully in her sleep" at home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her children. The actor was just five days shy of her 97th birthday, the…