Lansbury earned her first Academy Award nomination for her first role in Gaslight in 1944, but gained international recognition playing writer-detective Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote
The British actress passed away at the age of 96 Angela Lansbury.
Lansbury earned her first Academy Award nomination for her first role in the film Gaslight in 1944, but gained international recognition playing writer-detective Jessica Fletcher in the series Murder, She Wrote (titled in Greece The Author Detective).
Dame Angela Lansbury was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress three times for the films Nightmare (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and The Manchurian Man (1962), while in November 2013 she received an Honorary Oscar for the offer of in the 7th art. A special place in her filmography is also occupied by the films: The Tramp and the Amazon (National Velvet, 1944), Samson and Delilah (1949), The Court Jester (1956), Desires in the Summer Capsule (The Long, Hot Summer, 1958), All Around Me Fell Down! (All Fall Down, 1962), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Death on the Nile (1978) and Beauty and the Beast (1991). Her performances in the theater earned her five Tony Awards, while also receiving six Golden Globes.
Lansbury was born in 1925 in London and was the offspring of a middle-class family. She was the daughter of Moina McGill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. In 1940, in order to avoid the war, he moved to the USA, where he studied acting in New York. In 1942 she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and took on her first role in George Cukor’s Gaslight (1944). Her performance in the film, playing Ingrid Bergman’s unscrupulous maid, was praised by critics and earned her her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She continued to appear in MGM films, but in minor roles, and her contract expired in 1952. From then on, her career blossomed in both film and theater. Her performance in the film The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was described as one of the best of her career, while her engagement with the musical genre established her in the mid-1960s. In 1966 her performance in musical by Jerome Lawrence, Robert Edward Lee and Jerry Herman Mame won her many awards and made her a Gay icon.
The 1970s found her working mostly in the theater, mostly starring in musicals such as The King and I and Sweeney Todd, The Barber of Fleet Street which earned her good reviews. In the 1980s, she transitioned to television, starring in the series Murder She Wrote (1984), which ran for 12 years and earned her 18 Emmy Award nominations. In 1991 she lent her voice to the Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast and has since made sporadic film appearances. She was married twice, the first to actor Richard Cromwell and their marriage lasted a year, while the second to producer Peter Shaw, with whom she remained married until his death in 2003.
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