Dame Angela Lansbury (born October 16, 1925, in London, England, died October 11, 2022) is an actress of stage and screen who has garnered fifteen Golden Globe nominations and six wins, four wins and ten nominations came from her role as Jessica Fletcher on Murder She Wrote (1984-1996). She also received wins for her roles in The Picture of Dorian Grey (1945) from the 1890 novel by Oscar Wilde, and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) directed by John Frankenheimer, further nominations for Something For Everyone (1970), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Death on the Nile (1978) with Peter Ustinov from the 1937 novel by Agatha Christie. Lansbury made her film debut in Gaslight (1944) by George Cukor, acted with Kevin Kline in The Pirates of Penzance (1983), with Emma Thompson in Nanny McPhee (2005), with Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011), with Emily Blunt in Mary Poppins Returns (2018) directed by Rob Marshall.
