Angela Lansbury was meant to become an artist; her mom was a central character of the British phase when she was born in London, Britain in 1925.
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Lansbury was best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher inside the long-running CBS television series Murder, She Wrote.
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Lansbury died on Tuesday at the age of 96 in Los Angeles, based on a relatives declaration. There was no description of a cause of death.
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Lansbury first became interested in acting as a young teen, when she played Audrey in a school production of As You Like It. She told Terry Gross of Fresh Air in 2000 that performing up on the stage was "intoxicating."
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She said : I mysteriously got the feeling and taste of being able to make an impact through the way I performed the role and conducted myself.
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Lansbury and her parent immigrated to the America in 1940, during the Battle of Britain, and decided to settle in Hollywood after two years.
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Just at age of 17, she landed her first movie role as the saucy housemaid Nancy in Gaslight, directed by George Cukor.
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In 1962, Lansbury played the evil woman of the braindead Laurence Harvey in The Manchurian Candidate, which was somewhat her most unforgettable Hollywood achievement.
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Lansbury returned to Hollywood in the 1980s to star in the secret television series Murder, She Wrote.
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Lansbury's acting career spanned an incredible 70 years. She received 5 Tony Awards, an award for lifetime achievement and 6 Golden Globe award.
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