{"id":2002,"date":"2022-10-12T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:52:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:52:45","slug":"film-icon-angela-lansbury-passes-away-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/foreverinourhearts\/2022\/10\/film-icon-angela-lansbury-passes-away-at-96.html","title":{"rendered":"Screen and Broadway Icon Angela Lansbury Passes Away at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2008\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2022\/10\/angela-landsbury_credit-CBS-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/399\/2022\/10\/angela-landsbury_credit-CBS-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CBS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Film icon Angela Lansbury has passed away at the age of 96. Her family released a statement saying, &#8220;The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,&#8221; her family says. &#8220;In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury,&#8221; the statement adds. &#8220;She was proceeded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar nominated actress is best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running CBS TV series, &#8220;Murder, She Wrote.&#8221; She had a wide acting range, playing the venomous mother in the 1962 &#8220;The Manchurian Candidate&#8221; to voicing the sweet role of Mrs. Potts in &#8220;Beauty and the Beast.&#8221; The star was also known for her plethora of iconic Broadway roles such as &#8220;Gaslight&#8221; and &#8220;Anyone Can Whistle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lansbury had an incredibly successful career, earning three Oscar nominations, one of them being just before she turned 20 years old for her movie debut &#8220;Gaslight&#8221; in 1944. She also went on to collect 5 Tony Awards, 6 Golden Globe Awards, and 11 Emmy nominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love this industry and I love being in it,\u201d Lansbury said in a 1998 interview with the Archives of American Television.<\/p>\n<p>At 92, Lansbury stared in PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Little Women,&#8221; and when asked if that would be her final act, she said &#8220;I know at 92 I should be thinking in terms of swanning out, but I don&#8217;t know if you have the energy and the enthusiasm and the interest, I don&#8217;t think you ever really stop.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Film icon Angela Lansbury has passed away at the age of 96. Her family released a statement saying, &#8220;The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Screen and Broadway Icon Angela Lansbury Passes Away at 96<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Murder, She Wrote&quot; and &quot;Beauty and the Beast&quot; star Angela Lansbury passes away at age 96.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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