Angela Lansbury gained fame from her hit TV show, Murder She Wrote. In the show, Angela Lansbury plays a former substitute English teacher and famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, who has a gift for solving mysteries. It seems that murder follows the character of Angela Lansbury around, whether it be to the houses of her seemingly endless number of friends, nieces, and nephews or right in her hometown of Cabot Cove, Maine. Jessica Fletcher (played by Angela Lansbury) is sometimes assisted by her friend Dr. Seth Hazelet or the local sheriff, Amos Tupper (later Sheriff Metsger). Sometimes, early in the series, Angela Lansbury would only narrate the episode, which would be a dramatization of one of her character's novels. In later seasons, the character of Angela Lansbury, Jessica Fletcher, moved to New York City to be closer to her publisher and also closer to crime. Angela Lansbury is a British character actress, long in the United States. She studied acting from her youth, departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film, Gaslight (1944). Two pictures later, she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Although active in television since the early 1950s, she obtained her greatest fame in the 1980s by starring in the light mystery program "Murder, She Wrote" (1984).
