New York | Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor 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 on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), five days shy of her 97th birthday, at her home in Los Angeles, a statement from her three children said.