angela lansbury

angela lansbury is one of my favorite veteran actress in her role as Jessica Fletcher in the long-running television series, “Murder, She Wrote”, which was one of the longest running detective drama series in US TV history and made angela lansbury one of the highest paid actresses in the world.

Angela Lansbury is a British actress and singer whose career has spanned seven decades. Her first film appearance was in Gaslight in 1944, for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and she expanded her repertoire to Broadway and television in the 1950s. She highly respected for her versatility, and won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and has been nominated for three Oscars and eighteen Emmys.

Her more popular films include The Manchurian Candidate in 1962, Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971 and Beauty and the Beast in 1991 and she was successful in such Broadway musicals as Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Angela Lansbury is more recently known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on the American television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 until 1996.

Now, Angela Lansbury already holds one Tony Awards record — hosting the ceremony more often than anyone else– five times to be exact. She won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress, as well as the 2009 Tony for Featured actress in a Play for her role in Blithe Spirit .