Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, best known to American audiences for her roles as the iconic detective novelist Jessica Fletcher in the 1980s television series Murder She Wrote and as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has passed away today at the age of 96. In addition to her best-known roles, Lansbury was a legend of musical theatre, having won five Tony awards over the course of her long career.
Lansbury was born in London to Irish actor Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. In 1940, she left England to escape the German bombing during the Blitz and began studying acting in New York City. After signing with MGM in 1942 she appeared in Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray earning Oscar nods for both films and a Golden Globe for her part as Sibyl Vane, the young ingenue corrupted by Hurd Hatfield’s Dorian Gray.
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