Angela Lansbury, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote” and the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ has passed away.

Her family released a statement saying, “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.”

Angela was a four-time Oscar nominee and had a career spanning eight decades, across film, theatre, and television.

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