Angela Lansbury, a celebrated actress whose career spanned eight decades, has died at the age of 96.
Lansbury was a star of theater, film and television, winning five Tony Awards and an honorary Academy Award in 2013.
By the time she was 20, Lansbury had already been nominated for two Oscars. But she may have achieved her greatest fame in her 60s, for her starring role as the mystery-solving novelist Jessica Fletcher in TV's "Murder, She Wrote."
Generations of children also revered Lansbury for her Disney roles, first in the 1971 movie musical "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" and later as the voice of Mrs. Potts in the 1991 animated film "Beauty and the Beast." Lansbury sang the "Beauty and the Beast" theme song that went on to win the Oscar for best original song.



























