IF YOU’RE HATING ON A PAGE DEDICATED TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE PASSED ON I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU …..SEEK HELP ! She was a British American actress. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention. Angela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family on October 16, 1925 When Lansbury was nine, her father died from stomach cancer; she retreated into playing characters as a coping mechanism. Lansbury gained her first theatrical job as a nightclub act at the Samovar Club, Montreal, singing songs by Noël Coward. Although 16 years old, she claimed to be 19 to secure the job. At a party hosted by her mother, Lansbury met John van Druten, who had recently co-authored a script for Gaslight (1944), she was accepted for the part, although, since she was only 17, a social worker had to accompany her on the set. she was signed to a seven-year contract with MGM, earning $500 a week. On September 27, 1945, Lansbury married Richard Cromwell, an artist and decorator whose acting career had come to a standstill. Their marriage was troubled; Cromwell was gay, and had married Lansbury in the unsuccessful hope that it would turn him heterosexual. Lansbury filed for divorce within a year. In 1946, Lansbury played her first American character as Em, a honky-tonk saloon singer in the Oscar-winning Wild West musical The Harvey Girls;her singing was dubbed by Virginia Reese. She appeared in The Hoodlum Saint (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), If Winter Comes (1947), Tenth Avenue Angel (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948), State of the Union (1948) and The Red Danube (1949) In 1962, she appeared in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate as Eleanor Iselin Working in cinema, in 1979 Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film. In 1983, Lansbury was offered two main television roles, one in a sitcom and the other in a detective drama series, Murder, She Wrote Lansbury appeared in a season six episode of the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lansbury was married twice. Her first marriage was to actor Richard Cromwell and lasted from 1945 to 1946. In 1949, Lansbury married actor and producer Peter Shaw, and they remained married until he died in 2003.They had two children together, Lansbury died in her sleep at her home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on October 11, 2022, aged 96. - @celebrity.death.s