Angela Lansbury, Murder She Wrote star, dies at 96

Angela Lansbury "died peacefully in her sleep" at her Los Angeles home, her family said

She was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at age 88 in November 2013

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Angela Lansbury at the American Theatre Wing's 64th annual Tony Awards ceremony in New York, June 13, 2010

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Angela who played a crime-solving mystery writer in the long-running US television series

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Her film debut as a teenager playing the conniving Cockney maid in Gaslight in 1944

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Nearly seven decades after her first film, she was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement at age 88 in November 2013

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Her stardom came in middle age when she became the hit of the New York theater

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Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up Broadway musicals “Mame” and “Gypsy”

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The actor was just five days shy of her 97th birthday

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Broadway royalty paid their respects, She was an icon, a legend, a gem, nicest lady

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