'Murder She Wrote' actress Angela Lansbury dies at 96

2016 filepic of actress Angela Lansbury at a special screening and panel discussion of 'Beauty And The Beast' to celebrate the animated film's 25th anniversary. Lansbury, who became a household name through her role as a writer-detective in 'Murder, She Wrote', has died, her family said October 11, 2022. She was 96. – Photo: AFP

Angela Lansbury, the big-eyed, scene-stealing British actress who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals Mame and Gypsy and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the long-running TV series Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.

Lansbury died Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles, according to a statement from her three children. She died five days shy of her 97th birthday.