Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American actress and singer who has appeared in theater, television, and film roles. Her career was spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received international attention. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broom...
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American actress and singer who has appeared in theater, television, and film roles. Her career was spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received international attention. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are 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. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her 12 year run as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996. Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, 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.
Respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, an Honorary Academy Award, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and eighteen Emmy Awards.
Movies (Cast)
The Grinch
Beauty and the Beast
Blue Hawaii
Anastasia
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Harlow
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Dear Heart
Nanny McPhee
Samson and Delilah
Buttons
The Last Unicorn
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Death on the Nile
National Velvet
Fantasia 2000
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Mary Poppins Returns
A Breath of Scandal
The Court Jester
Mister Buddwing
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Gaslight
The Mirror Crack'd
All Fall Down
The Company of Wolves
Kind Lady
The Long, Hot Summer
Something for Everyone
Remains to Be Seen
The World of Henry Orient
The Three Musketeers
State of the Union
Mrs. Santa Claus
Tenth Avenue Angel
The Pirates of Penzance
Please Murder Me
The Lady Vanishes
In the Cool of the Day
The Hoodlum Saint
The Harvey Girls
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
A Talent for Murder
A Life at Stake
A Lawless Street
The Reluctant Debutante
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Shootdown
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
The Purple Mask
The Red Danube
Mickey's Audition
The Love She Sought
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
Mutiny
The Manchurian Candidate
The Blackwater Lightship
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
Driving Miss Daisy
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Your Studio and You
Heidi 4 Paws
If Winter Comes
The Shell Seekers
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
Till the Clouds Roll By
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party