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Photo: Tommaso Boddi (Getty Images)The inimitable veteran actress Dame Angela Lansbury, a musical performer who went from stage in shows like Sweeney Todd as Mrs. Lovett, to screen in Disney’s animated classic Beauty and the Beast as Mrs. Potts, has passed away. Her family shared in a statement, “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.”Lansbury’s…

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…

Robin Marchant/Getty Images) Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, best known to American audiences for her roles as the iconic detective novelist Jessica Fletcher in the 1980s television series Murder She Wrote and as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has passed away today at the age of 96. In addition to her best-known roles, Lansbury was a legend of musical theatre, having won five Tony awards over the course of her long career. Lansbury was born in London to Irish actor Moyna Macgill and…

Angela Lansbury passed away on Tuesday (11 October) aged 96, her family 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…

After the news broke of Angela Lansbury’s death aged 96 on Tuesday (11 October), tributes from fellow celebrities poured in.The Murder, She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast star died “peacefully in her sleep”, just five days shy of her birthday, her family have announced. Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson led tributes on Twitter, recalling the moment he sat “next to Angela Lansbury at an opening night”. “Even though I had to pee I refused to leave my seat during intermission. I spent the 15 minutes chatting with her…

Dame Angela Lansbury has died aged 96.The Murder, She Wrote and Beauty and the Beast star died “peacefully in her sleep” on Tuesday (11 October), her family have announced.“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died  peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1.30am today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family said in a statement.“In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren,…