Angela Lansbury, ‘Murder She Wrote’ star, dies at 96

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Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles 

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She died five days shy of her 97th birthday 

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Angela suffered a shattering blow when her beloved father died in 1935 

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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) 

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Lansbury received five Tony Awards and a lifetime achievement award for her Broadway appearances.

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Lansbury received five Tony Awards and a lifetime achievement award for her Broadway appearances.

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She earned Academy Award nominations as supporting actress for two of her first three films, 

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“Gaslight” (1945) and “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946), and was nominated 

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