Angela Lansbury, probably best known for ‘Murder She Wrote’ as well as her turn as a singing teapot in ‘Beauty and The Beast,’ died today at age 96.

 

Angela Lansbury / Mrs Potts

 

Lansbury won five Tony Awards, most recently in 2009 for best-featured actress in a play for her work in Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit.’

 

 

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family said in a statement.