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Angela Lansburyis set to grace movie screens one last time.
The iconic actress, whodied Tuesday at 96, will make her final film appearance in Netflix’s upcomingGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
Lansbury appears in a brief cameo that nods to herMurder, She Wroteheyday.Stephen Sondheim, who died in November at 91, also appears in the scene, which takes place over a Zoom call withDaniel Craig’s detective character, Benoit Blanc.
Writer-directorRian JohnsonhonoredLansbury’s life and career in a Twitter postTuesday. The director, 48, shared a clip of Lansbury performing the song “By The Sea” from the Broadway musicalSweeney Todd,for which shewon a Tony in 1979 for best actress in a musical. “An absolute legend ❤️,” Johnson wrote.
Lansbury, whom mystery fans know best as dauntless novelist Jessica Fletcher from the CBS seriesMurder, She Wrote, “died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m” Tuesday, her family said in a statement. She died just five days short of her 97th birthday.
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Lansbury’s late-career roles included a starring role in PBS’sLittle Womenminiseries, where she worked with director Vanessa Caswill, and a role in 2018’sMary Poppins Returns.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mysteryis streaming on Netflix Dec. 23.
source: people.com
