Murder, She Wrote lead actress Angela Lansbury dies

American actress Angela Lansbury has died. Her family reported this.

Lansbury was 96 and died five days before her 97th birthday, her family said in a statement. The cause of her death has not been specified.

• Lansbury is best known for starring in the detective series Murder, She Wrote, which ran from 1984 to 1996. For this role, Lansbury received four Golden Globes and was nominated for 12 Emmys.
• Among other famous films where Lansbury played are The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Manchurian Candidate, Gaslight. For these three roles, she was nominated for an Oscar; in 2014, she received an honorary Oscar for her contribution to cinema.
• Lansbury is also known as an actress of theater and musicals, she received five times the highest American theatrical Tony Award.