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Film, Television and Stage Icon Angela Lansbury Passed Away
By InCinemas / 12 Oct 2022 (Wednesday)
Acclaimed actress Angela Lansbury has sadly passed away in her sleep, five days short of her 97th birthday.
The three-time Oscar nominee and six-time Tony award winner’s death was announced by her family. The statement read:
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.
Lansbury is known to television fans as the star of the long-running series Murder, She Wrote for which she was Emmy-nominated for each of its 12 seasons. To Broadway fans, she was the definitive Auntie Mame and to film buffs, the voice of Mrs. Potts in the animated classis Beauty and the Beast, among a vast number of other roles. The beloved actress had one of the longest and most acclaimed acting careers on screen and stage.
Born on October 16, 1925, in London, Lansbury moved to the United States in 1940. She made her Hollywood debut in the classic psychological thriller Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman. The following year, Lansbury appeared in The Picture of Dorian Gray–receiving Oscar nominations for both performances. She received her third Oscar nomination for the performance in The Manchurian Candidate.
Lansbury made her Broadway debut in 1957, winning 5 Tonys during her career for performances–Best Actress in a Musical for Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Best Featured Actress in a Play for Blithe Spirit (2009), and the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2022.
She is survived by three children, three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury.