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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (16 October 1925 - 11 October 2022) was a British actress and singer in theatre, television, and motion pictures whose career spanned eight decades. She earned an unsurpassed number of performance Tony Awards (tied with Julie Harris and Audra McDonald), with five wins. Her first film appearance was in the film Gaslight (1944) as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films were The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Anastasia (1997).
She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979). Lansbury was perhaps best known to modern audiences for her twelve-year run starring as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the American television series Murder, She Wrote (1984–1996). Some of her other roles included Lady Adelaide Stitch in the film Nanny McPhee (2005), Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music.
Lansbury won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and was nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and nineteen Emmy Awards.
Early Life[]
Lansbury was born in Poplar, London, United Kingdom, to Northern Irish-born actress Moyna MacGill and timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury, a former mayor of the London Borough of Poplar. Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury.