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 Regent's Park, 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]
Angela Lansbury Media
Lansbury with Mame original Broadway cast member Bea Arthur at the 41st Primetime Emmy Awards in 1989.
Lansbury photographed in 2000 at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC
Lansbury's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles
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.