Angela Lansbury isn't an actress.
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury , ( born 16 October 1925 ) is a British-American-Irish actress who has appeared in theatre , television and film , as well as a producer , voice actress , singer , and songwriter . Since then , she has toured in a variety of international theatrical productions and continued to make occasional film appearances . Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) . The film also features the voices of Richard White , Jerry Orbach , David Ogden Stiers , and Angela Lansbury . Jessica Beatrice Fletcher ( born Jessica Beatrice MacGill , known as J.B. Fletcher when writing ) is a character and the protagonist portrayed by Award-winning actress Angela Lansbury on the American television series Murder , She Wrote . The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 American black and white neo-noir Cold War suspense thriller , scripted by George Axelrod , from the Richard Condon novel , produced by Axelrod and John Frankenheimer , directed by Frankenheimer , and starring Frank Sinatra , Laurence Harvey , and Janet Leigh ; co-starring are Angela Lansbury , Henry Silva , and James Gregory .