Angela Lansbury. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery will be available in December
(Picture: Ian West/PA Archive)Dame Angela Lansbury’s final screen appearance will be in Netflix’s upcoming Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
The actress, who died aged 96 on Tuesday, appears in a cameo that makes a nod to her mystery series Murder, She Wrote. Stephen Sondheim, who died in November at 91, also appears in the scene, which takes place over a Zoom call with Daniel Craig’s detective character, Benoit Blanc.
The writer-director Rian Johnson paid tribute to Lansbury in a Twitter post on Tuesday by sharing a clip pf the star performing the song By the Sea from the Broadway musical Sweeney Todd, for which she won a Tony in 1979 for best actress in a musical.
"An absolute legend," he captioned the clip.
Last month, Netflix released a trailer of Glass Onion, which featured Johnson talking about the film, which is set in Greece and also stars Kate Hudson.
Lansbury, best known for her role as novelist Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, “died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1.30am, her family said in a statement.
An absolute legend ♥️ https://t.co/vDzHZehvUv
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 11, 2022
She died five days short of her 97th birthday.
“In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury," the statement continued.
“She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw.
A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined.
The star continued her screen career into her 90s and it included a starring role in PBS’s Little Women miniseries and a role in 2018’s Mary Poppins Returns.
