Three-time Oscar nominee and honorary Oscar winner, six-time Tony Award winner, six-time Golden Globe winner and eighteen-time Emmy nominee Angela Lansbury has died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.
The iconic actress will always be remembered for her work as novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher leading CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote” across twelve seasons and perennial ratings hit from 1984-1996.
But her career went so much further, creating some of the most memorable characters for the screen across generations. She received her first Oscar nomination for her very first film role in “Gaslight,” another for “The Picture of Dorian Gray” a year later.
She scored one more for her now famed turn as Mrs. Iselin in the original “The Manchurian Candidate,” and was steadily working in film throughout the late 1940s to the mid 1960s with roles in “Blue Hawaii,” “Samson and Delilah,” “The Three Musketeers” and more.
She was also a Broadway superstar with award-winning turns in “Mame,” “Gypsy,” “Sweeny Todd” and “Blithe Spirit”.
She became known to a whole new generation in the 1970s for her roles like kind witch Miss Eglantine Price in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” drunk flamboyant author Salome Otterbourne in “Death on the Nile,” mystery solving Jane Marple in “The Mirror Crack’d,” Mrs. Potts in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and Great Aunt Adelaide in “Nanny McPhee”.
Her last role was playing herself in the upcoming “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”.
