Angela Lansbury’s family sells the late actress’ longtime Brentwood home for $4.9M

Just 11 days after it was reported to be on the market for the first time, the home of the late actress Angela Lansbury has already sold for more than four decades.

Lansbury died in her sleep in October at the age of 96 at the Brentwood home where she lived for more than 40 years.

The house sold for $4.9 million and the deal closed on Tuesday TMZwith the actress’ estate getting $400,000 more than the original listing of $4.5 million.

Lansbury and her husband Peter Shaw – whom she married in 1949 until his death in 2003 at age 84 – bought the house in 1985 for $925,000.

The actress’ daughter Deidre, 69, shared Wall Street Journal earlier this month, it was, “time to move on,” adding that her mother would have wanted the house sold.

Angela’s house: The house sold for $4.9 million, and the deal closed on Tuesday, according to TMZ, with the actress’ estate getting $400,000 more than the original $4.5 million offer

The 3,708-square-foot home has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, resting on nearly half an acre.

Skylights and other large windows in the house provide a lot of natural light in the house.

Other amenities include a swimming pool, a formal dining room with a skylight and a portrait of the actress, and a terracotta-tiled fireplace.

The English-style cottage also has French doors, a large terrace and a terraced garden with a greenhouse.

Lansbury’s daughter Deirdre said the property was the “perfect” home for her mother who didn’t “like material things” and led a low-key lifestyle.

“Neither she nor my father had money, and they valued everything they had,” she said. “A lot of big stars forget about them these days. But they never did,” she told the Wall Street Journal.

Born in London to an Irish actress and a British politician, the Irish-British star moved to New York City as a teenager to avoid the German bombings of WWII.

She landed her first movie role at just 19 – 1944’s Gaslight – and continued to work regularly for MGM.

House: The 3,708-square-foot home has four bedrooms and four bathrooms, resting on nearly a 1/2 acre lot

Natural light: Skylights and other large windows in the house bring a lot of natural light into the house

Pool: Other amenities include a pool, a formal dining room with a skylight featuring a portrait of the actress, and a terracotta-tiled fireplace

Outside: The English style cottage also features patio doors, a large patio and a terraced garden with a conservatory

Although she continued to work regularly through the 1950s and 1960s, her critically acclaimed performance in 1962’s The Manchurian Candidate helped land her bigger roles.

She continued to work in film, but also found success in musical theater, winning her first Tony Award in 1966 for Mame.

While still starring in such films as Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Death on the Nile (1978), she continued to bag Tony Awards on stage as well.

She won four more Tony Awards for 1969’s Dear World, 1975’s Gypsy, 1979’s Sweeney Todd, and 2009’s Blithe Spirit.

Lansbury became a global star in the 1980s when she starred in the hit TV series Murder She Wrote.

The show followed her character Jessica Fletcher – a professional writer and amateur detective – who uses her skills to solve murders.

The hit series ran for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996, in between which she also voiced the iconic Mrs. Potts in 1991’s Beauty and the Beast.

She would return to play Jessica Fletcher in several Murder She Wrote TV movies and most recently had a cameo as herself in 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Worldwide: Lansbury became a global star in the 1980s when she starred in the hit TV series Murder She Wrote

Sleuth: The show followed her character Jessica Fletcher – a professional writer and amateur detective – who uses her skills to solve murders

Later years: She would return to play Jessica Fletcher in several TV movies Murder She Wrote and most recently had a cameo as herself in 2022’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery