Angela Lansbury, Star of MURDER, SHE WROTE, Has Died at 96

Angela Lansbury played the enigma writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher connected Murder, She Wrote for 12 years, on with countless different iconic roles successful her life. She passed distant successful her slumber October 11, 2022, days earlier her 97th birthday.

She was inactive acting into her 90s, including galore bookish roles. She appeared successful Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast, The Picture of Dorian Gray, National Velvet, PBS’s Little Women miniseries, Mame, the 2018 Mary Poppins Returns, among different book-to-movie oregon -stage adaptations.

Lansbury received 18 Emmy nominations and won 5 Tony Awards, including a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement successful the Theatre. She was besides named a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II.

While astir of her aboriginal roles were what she called “bitches connected wheels and people’s mothers,” her acquisition with Murder, She Wrote was different: “What appealed to maine astir Jessica Fletcher is that I could bash what I bash champion and person small accidental to play — a sincere, down-to-earth woman.”

A beloved actor, she volition beryllium missed by legions of fans collected implicit her agelong and decorated career.