The Murder, She Wrote star 'died peacefully in her sleep at home', her children said
But for many, her best-known role was as fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the CBS crime drama“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1.30am today , just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family said in a statement.
She was previously married to the late actor Richard Cromwell between 1945 and 1946 – but the couple divorced because Cromwell was gay.. “He wanted to marry, he was fascinated with me, but only because of what he had seen on the screen, really.”fronting a TV information campaignA British-Irish and American citizen, Lansbury was made a Dame in 2014 for her lifetime of acting and her charity work. She said at the time: “To meet the Queen under these circumstances is a rare and lovely occasion.
She said: “I want women my age to be represented the way they are, which is vital, productive members of society. “I’m astonished at the amount of stuff I managed to pack into the years that I have been in the business. And I’m still here!”
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