Angela Lansbury

Irish-British-American actress and singer (1925–2022)

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (16 October 1925 – 11 October 2022) was a British-Irish-American actress of stage, movie, and television. She was best known for her roles as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running whodunit television series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996), and as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney's 30th animated feature movie Beauty and the Beast (1991).


Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury in 1950
Born
Angela Brigid Lansbury

(1925-10-16)16 October 1925
Died11 October 2022(2022-10-11) (aged 96)
NationalityBritish, Irish, American[1] (multiple citizenship)
Occupations
  • Actress
  • singer
  • producer
Years active1942–2022
Spouse(s)
Richard Cromwell
(m. 1945; div. 1946)

Peter Shaw
(m. 1949; died 2003)
Children2
Parent(s)Edgar Lansbury
Moyna Macgill
FamilyBruce Lansbury (brother)
Edgar Lansbury (brother)
George Lansbury (grandfather)
Tamara Ustinov (niece)
John Postgate (cousin)
Oliver Postgate (cousin)
Coral Lansbury (cousin)

Death change

Lansbury died on 11 October 2022, five days before her 97th birthday at her home in Los Angeles, California.[2]

References change

  1. "Angela Lansbury: I find Ireland an extraordinarily warm place to live". Irish Post. January 24, 2014. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016.
  2. "Angela Lansbury, 'Murder, She Wrote' and 'Beauty and the Beast' star, dies at 96". NBC News. Retrieved 11 October 2022.

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