Dame Angela Lansbury has died aged 96.
The Homicide, She Wrote actress died “peacefully in her sleep” at her residence on Tuesday, her household introduced. The actress, who acquired an Emmy nomination for greatest actress in a drama sequence each season of Homicide, She Wrote however by no means gained, died at 1:30 a.m.
“The youngsters of Dame Angela Lansbury are unhappy to announce that their mom died peacefully in her sleep at residence in Los Angeles at 1.30am at this time, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, simply 5 days shy of her 97th birthday,” her household stated in an announcement.
“Along with her three kids, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus 5 nice grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. She was preceded in dying by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw.”
"She was proceeded in dying by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. A personal household ceremony will likely be held at a date to be decided."
The London-born actor gained 5 Tony Awards and was nominated for 3 Oscars, and acquired an honorary award in 2013. She beforehand gained a Tony for greatest musical actress in 1979 for her roles as Nellie Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Road, and for Mame (1966), Expensive World (1969), and Gypsy (1975).
On display screen, Lansbury famously lent her voice to the heart-warming character of Mrs Pott within the 1991 musical Magnificence and the Beast. As Mrs Pott, the actor sang one of many movie’s most memorable songs, “Story As Previous as Time”.
In 2016, she carried out the track at Lincoln Centre in New York Metropolis in celebration of Magnificence and the Beast’s twenty fifth anniversary.
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