BREAKING: Legendary TV and movie star Angela Lansbury, known for role in 'Murder, She Wrote,' has died at age 96, according to multiple reports.
Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy” and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series “Murder, She Wrote,” has died. She was 96.
Lansbury won five Tony Awards for her Broadway performances and a lifetime achievement award. She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films, “Gaslight” and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” , and was nominated again in 1962 for “The Manchurian Candidate” and her deadly portrayal of a Communist agent and the title character’s mother.
Her stardom came in middle age when she became the hit of the New York theater, winning Tony Awards for “Mame” , “Dear World” , “Gypsy” and “Sweeney Todd” . But Lansbury’s widest fame began in 1984 when she launched “Murder, She Wrote” on CBS. Based loosely on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple stories, the series centered on Jessica Fletcher, a middle-aged widow and former substitute school teacher living in the seaside village of Cabot Cove, Maine. She had achieved notice as a mystery novelist and amateur sleuth.“I was shocked when I learned that had to work 12-15 hours a day, relentlessly, day in, day out,” she recalled.
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