Angela Lansbury: The actress died – She was the star of the series “The Detective Writer”

Just before it happened 97 years oldthe actor Angela Lansbury has passed away. The film, theater and television actress became more widely known and loved especially through her participation in the American television series “Murder She Wrote” where she played mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

For her role in this series, Angela Lansbury was nominated for ten Golden Globes and 12 Emmy Awards, winning four Golden Globe Awards.

The actress earned her first Oscar nomination for her first role in the film Gaslight (Nightmare) in 1944, but international recognition playing the 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 portrait of Dorian Gray (1945) and The Man of Manchuria (1962), while in November in 2013 she received an Honorary Oscar for her contribution to the 7th art.

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 Disney’s animated film Beauty and the Beast and since then he has been making 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.