Angela Lansbury, the British-born actress whose career spanned eight decades and produced indelible portraits of a wide range of characters from villainesses to sleuths and light comic roles in movies, on the stage and on television, died at age 96, her family said in a statement.
Lansbury was a cousin of former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s mother, Carol Lansbury, the Australian-born feminist writer and academic, who died in 1991.
Angela Lansbury in 2018.Credit:AP
Turnbull revealed in his memoir in 2020 that he had lobbied successfully for his “auntie” to receive a damehood only months before abolishing the honour in Australia’s own system as “anachronistic” and “out of date”. She was created a dame in 2014.
“I encouraged my friend David Cameron, then PM of the United Kingdom, to make her a dame – like so many of the great actresses of her vintage,” he wrote.
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