This Tuesday, October 11, 2022, the family of Angela Lansbury announced the death of the actress emblematic of the series Arabesque. She was 96 years old.
It’s a heroine of the small screen who is gone. Angela Lansbury, famous for her role in Arabesquedied at the age of 96. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are saddened to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1.30am today, Tuesday 11th October 2022, just five days before her 97th birthday”his family said in a statement.“In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, as well as five great-grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury.”
A private family ceremony is expected to be held shortly. It was in 1944 that the actress obtained her first contract to play in the film haunting by George Cukor. She will be nominated for the Oscars in 1945 for obtaining the title in the category of supporting roles. Barely 21 years old, Angela Lansbury is a second time nominated for an Oscar for his performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray. She then chained the roles on the screen, in The Harvey Ladiesby George Sidney, in 1946, or even The three Musketeers. She also likes to play in the theater and becomes known in classic plays but also musicals.
Arabesque, the series of his life
In the 1960s, she appeared in the cinema alongside prestigious actors such as Elvis Presley in Under blue Hawaiian skies. In 1984, the actress obtained the role of her life: that of the detective novelist Jessica Fletcher in the series Arabesque. After 264 episodes, the fiction stops in 1996. Thanks to this role she won four Golden Globes. Still today, Arabesque is broadcast in many countries around the world. A way to make his image prosper on television and to pay him, in a way, homage.
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