Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) was a British-Irish-American actress of stage, movie, and television. She was best known for her roles as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running whodunit television series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996), and as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney's 30th animated feature movie Beauty and the Beast (1991).
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Born | Angela Brigid Lansbury 16 October 1925 London, England |
Died | 11 October 2022 Los Angeles, California, US | (aged 96)
Nationality | British, Irish, American[1] (multiple citizenship) |
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Years active | 1942–2022 |
Spouse(s) | Richard Cromwell (m. 1945; div. 1946) Peter Shaw (m. 1949; died 2003) |
Children | 2 |
Parent(s) | Edgar Lansbury Moyna Macgill |
Family | Bruce Lansbury (brother) Edgar Lansbury (brother) George Lansbury (grandfather) Tamara Ustinov (niece) John Postgate (cousin) Oliver Postgate (cousin) Coral Lansbury (cousin) |
Death
Lansbury died on 11 October 2022, five days before her 97th birthday at her home in Los Angeles, California.[2]
References
- ↑ "Angela Lansbury: I find Ireland an extraordinarily warm place to live". Irish Post. January 24, 2014. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016.
- ↑ "Angela Lansbury, 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Beauty and the Beast' star, dies at 96". NBC News. Retrieved 11 October 2022.