Name: | Angela Lansbury |
Net Worth: | $70 million – $80 million |
Date Of Birth: | October 16, 1925 |
Place Of Birth: | London, United Kingdom |
Aunts: | Dorothy Thurtle, Daisy Postgate, Annie Lansbury, Bessie Lansbury |
Grandchildren | Ian Lansbury, Katherine Shaw, Peter John Shaw |
Grandparents | Elizabeth Brine, George Lansbury |
Great-grandparents: | Anne Ferris, George Lansbury, Isaac Brine |
Angela Lansbury Death
Angela Lansbury, an actress best known for the series “Murder in the Writing” and for voicing a character in “Beauty and the Beast”, died at the age of 96 on Tuesday (11), five days before her birthday.
“The children of Lady Angela Lansbury are saddened to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles,” the family said in a statement, according to NBC News.
Born in London, the actress has achieved recognition in different media.
With a long career on stage, he received five Tony Awards, the most important in American theater.
In addition, she was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for the films “Twilight” (1944), “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1946) and “Under the Rules” (1963), and won an award. honorary for film work in 2013.
However, in American pop culture she is perhaps best known even for her work as the lead in the investigative series “Murder in Writing”, which was a huge hit between 1984 and 1996 in the United States, for which she received 12 Emmy nominations.
In the main award of American TV, it also received six other nominations.