Angela Lansbury, Entrancing Star of Stage and Screen, Dies at 96 | THR News - video Dailymotion

She played Mame and won five Tony Awards, received an honorary Oscar and starred for 12 seasons as Jessica Fletcher on 'Murder, She Wrote.'

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00:00Stage and screen actress Angela Lansbury has died.

00:03She was 96.

00:05Her family shared she died in her sleep at 1.30 a.m. Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles.

00:10She was five days shy of her birthday.

00:12The star was a three-time Oscar nominee and five-time Tony Award winner.

00:16She received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series

00:19for all 12 seasons of her CBS show Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996.

00:26The series was a huge ratings hit on Sunday nights following 60 Minutes.

00:30While she never won an Emmy, the actress received an honorary Oscar in 2013 for her career as

00:36quote, an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters,

00:41inspiring generations of actors.

00:43The London-born star received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom for her very first film role

00:48as the young maid Nancy in 1944's Gaslight.

00:51She was 19 at the time.

00:53Her other films over the years include 1945's The Picture of Dorian Gray,

00:571961's Blue Hawaii,

01:001962's The Manchurian Candidate,

01:021964's The World of Henry Orient,

01:051971's Bedknobs and Broomsticks,

01:071978's Death on the Nile,

01:101980's The Mirror Cracked,

01:11and 1991's animated Beauty and the Beast, where she voiced Mrs. Potts.

01:15Mama, there's a girl in the castle.

01:18Now, Chip, I'll not have you making up such wild stories.

01:21Really, Mama, I saw her.

01:24For much more on Angela Lansbury's life and career, go to THR.com.

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