Legendary actor Angela Lansbury has died at the age of 96.
Her family said 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 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday."
She had a varied career, which spanned almost 80 years. She famously played Jessica Fletcher on the CBS Sunday night hit "Murder, She Wrote". That show lasted from 1984-1996. Another popular and iconic role of hers was as Mrs. Pott in Disney's animated 1991 film "Beauty and the Beast".
Lansbury was also a Broadway veteran, with her best known stage role as ghoulish pie maker Nellie Lovett, in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" in 1979. She earned a Tony for that role, along with three other Tonys for "Mame" in 1966, "Dear World" in 1969, and "Gypsy" in 1975.
The actress was born on Oct. 16, 1925, in London, the daughter of actor Moyna Macgill and timber executive Edgar Lansbury. She is survived by her children Anthony, Deirdre, and David, her three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. She was predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw.
