Angela Lansbury, the stage and screen actress best known for ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ has died at 96.

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The cinema and the theater have lost a true dame with the death of actress Angela Lansbury. Lansbury, the award-winning star of films like “The Manchurian Candidate,” TV’s “Murder She Wrote” and Broadway musical “Sweeney Todd,” died Tuesday. She was 96.

“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,” said her family in a statement.

Lansbury was a force in the entertainment business for a career that spanned eight decades and garnered her an Oscar, five Tonys and 18 Emmy nominations, although she never won one for CBS’s “Murder.”

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