Angela Lansbury Net Worth, Husband, Wiki, Age, Cause of Death, Health Problems

Dame Angela Lansbury, who won international acclaim as the star of the US TV crime series Murder, She Wrote, has died aged 96.

The three-time Oscar nominee had a career spanning eight decades, across film, theatre and television.

Born in 1925, she was one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

Angela Lansbury Cause of Death

Dame Angela died in her sleep just five days before her 97th birthday, her family said in a statement.

“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles,” the family said.

Angela Lansbury Husband

Angela Lansbury had a rich life with decades of fantastic Hollywood roles. And she also had two husbands. According to Closer Weekly, Angela Lansbury’s first husband, Richard Cromwell, was also an actor, and the two tied the knot in 1945.

Cromwell and Lansbury divorced a year later, and Lansbury confirmed Cromwell was gay. “I had no idea that I was marrying a gay man,” she noted. “I found him such an attractive individual, a very glamorous person – he knew everybody, he was a friend of Joan Crawford’s, these people who I was fascinated by as a young actress. And he wanted to marry, he was fascinated with me, but only because of what he had seen on the screen, really.”

After Richard Cromwell, Angela Lansbury tied the knot with her second husband, Peter Shaw. RadioTimes.com notes Shaw moved to the U.S. after serving in the British army and met Lansbury in 1946. They tied the knot in 1949 and were married for over five decades until he died of heart failure in 2003. According to Lansbury, her relationship with Shaw was “perfect.”