Angela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades, died at age 96, her family said.
Actress Angela Lansbury died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles, her family said. File photoAngela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, on stage and on television, died at age 96, her family said.
Rush lauded her as the “living definition of range,” while Thompson recalled tossing a pie at Lansbury during the filming of the 2005 comedy “Nanny McPhee.” Lansbury won five Tony awards for Broadway performances as the original “Mame,” Gypsy Rose Lee's mother Mama Rose in “Gypsy,” the baker of human meat pies in “Sweeney Todd,” Countess Aurelia in “Dear World” and the clairvoyant Madame Arcati in “Blithe Spirit.”
“There's nothing like a good villainess,” she said. “You can go to town and chew on great chunks of scenery.” Lansbury studied drama and her movie career got off to a quick start. She had an MGM contract her first three movies were “Gaslight,” “National Velvet,” in which she played Elizabeth Taylor's older sister, and “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
Returning to film, she won applause as Orson Welles' mistress in “The Long Hot Summer” , Robert Preston's friend in “The Dark at the Top of the Stairs” , Elvis Presley's mother in “Blue Hawaii” and Warren Beatty's mother in “All Fall Down” .”
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