Angela Lansbury, British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and indelible images of a wide range of roles from villains in films to spies and light comedic roles in films, on stage and on television, has died at the age of 96. The family said on Tuesday, his family said on Tuesday. in a statement.
Lansbury, who played a crime-solving mystery writer in the long-running American television series "Murder, She Wrote," "died peacefully in her sleep" at home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her children. happened".
The actress was just five days away from her 97th birthday, the statement said.
In films, Lansbury turned in spirited supporting performances, with her debut as a teenager playing the nexus Cockney maid in "Gaslight" in 1944, as the doomed sibyl in "The Picture of Dorian Grey" in 1945. and as Lawrence Harvey's evil, manipulative mother in "The Manchurian Candidate" in 1962. All three roles earned him Academy Award nominations.
Nearly seven decades after his first film, he was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in November 2013 at the age of 88. Academy Award winners Geoffrey Rush and Emma Thompson paid tribute to Lansbury at the ceremony. Rush praised him as "the living definition of range", while Thompson recalled tossing a pie at Lansbury during the filming of the 2005 comedy "Nanny McPhee"....Reuters