Actress Angela Lansbury, 96, has died. She died just five days before her 97th birthday.
She made many appearances on film and on television, but she is perhaps best remembered for her role in the long-running Murder, She Wrote. My mother was a fan of mystery fiction and probably read every mystery ever written up until a few years before she died, and she was a huge fan of this show.
Lansbury was also a noted stage performer, garnering five Tony awards.
She was also among the last performers from Hollywood's Golden Age.
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“‘Murder, She Wrote’ has given me more worldwide attention than any other role I played in the movies or on the stage,” she said in 2013 while receiving an honorary Academy Award. “It’s a wonderful thing to be known in Spain, Portugal, in Paris, in France and Germany and everywhere.”
Lansbury became such an important TV figure that some fans might have forgotten what an important movie career she had in the era of black-and-white film, and the three best supporting actress Oscar nominations she received for three legendary works.
She played the maid in the 1944 classic “Gaslight,” about a woman, played by star Ingrid Bergman, who was being manipulated to question objective truth. The term “gas lighting,” meaning to psychologically manipulate with lies and false narratives, became a popular term in the 21st century American vocabulary, particularly after Donald Trump was elected president.
That role scored Lansbury her first Oscar nomination before she picked up another for her brief but vital role in 1945’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
Widowed in 2003, she is survived by three children, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. She even has a brother, 92, who is still living. He is producer Edgar Lansbury.
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