“Murder, She Wrote” star Angela Lansbury has died in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles. She was 96.

“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 a.

m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family says in a statement obtained by People.

Angela’s 75-year career started while she was still teenager by playwright John van Druten, Lansbury scored an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for her first role, as the scheming Cockney maid opposite Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in George Cukor’s suspense film “Gaslight” in 1944. 

 Her second came the next year for “The Portrait of Dorian Gray,” and again in 1962 as the mother who betrays her son and her country in “The Manchurian Candidate.”  Lansbury went from innocent to playing more mature roles practically overnight. She was only 37, when she portrayed Laurence Harvey’s conniving mother in “Manchurian Candidate,” even though her co-star was only just two years younger than her.

The iconic actress will always be remembered for her work as novelist/amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote” which had twelve seasons and perennial ratings hit from 1984-1996. 

She has been nominated for the Oscar for three-times and received the honorary Oscar, six-time Tony Award winner, six-time Golden Globe winner and eighteen-time Emmy nominations.