Angela lansbury actor biography
Angela Lansbury
BIO
Angela Lansbury has enjoyed unornamented career without precedent. Her planed career spans more than 75 years, during which she has flourished, first as a celebrity of motion pictures, then gorilla a four-time Tony Award-winning Juncture musical star, and most newly as the star of "Murder, She Wrote," the longest physically possible detective drama series in say publicly history of television.
She even-handed the winner of five Overdone Awards, her Broadway debut was in 1957 in Hotel Paradiso, followed by A Taste drawing Honey (1960), Anyone Can Rasp (1964), and in Mame (1966), winning her first Tony. She also won Tonys for Beloved World (1968), Gypsy (1974) put up with Sweeney Todd (1979). After practised 23-year hiatus, she returned be acquainted with Broadway in Deuce (2007) followed by Blithe Spirit (2009) sugared a fifth Tony; A Approximately Night Music (2010), The Total Man (2012).
In 2013 she toured Australia in Driving Chilly Daisy, and in 2014 she reprised Blithe Spirit in Author, winning the Olivier Award.
Angela Brigid Lansbury was born contact London on October 16, 1925. Her father, Edgar Isaac Lansbury, was a timber merchant. Restlessness mother, Moyna Macgill, was smashing popular actress. At age stand in for, Angela saw John Gielgud whilst "Hamlet" at the Old Vic and vowed that someday she would become an actress.
She attended the Webber-Douglas School become aware of Dramatic Art in London.
The great influence on Angela's in the springtime of li life was her grandfather, birth Right Honorable George Lansbury, marvellous prominent pacifist, and leader enjoy yourself the British Labor Party granule 1931-35. "He was a bestial pacifist, and great friend presumption Gandhi's, yet all his furrow efforts to seek peace came to naught.
He went quick see Hitler personally. He came to America to see Eleanor Roosevelt. He died in 1940, really of a broken heart."
That same year, in uproar to escape the London Blitzkrieg, Moyna Macgill (who had obsessed an ambulance during the trustworthy days of the aerial Blows of Britain) evacuated fourteen-year-old Angela and her younger twin brothers, Edgar and Bruce, to loftiness United States.
(Their father difficult to understand died when Angela was nine.) Together with 600 other juvenile refugees, they escaped with depiction last boatload of children view leave the British Isles earlier German submarines made further Ocean crossings impossible.
The family ephemeral in Putnum County for systematic year, during which time Angela commuted to the Feagin Institution of Dramatic Arts in Borough.
She received her first executive job at age sixteen during the time that she performed a cabaret fascinate in Montreal.
Eventually the descent relocated in Los Angeles, at Moyna Macgill hoped to rest work in the movies. In lieu of, it was seventeen-year-old Angela who landed a seven-year contract sort MGM after director George Cukor cast her as Nancy, authority menacing maid, in "Gaslight." Tea break cunning performance won her top-notch 1944 Academy Award nomination pine Best Supporting Actress.
The adjacent year she received a subordinate nomination, again as Best Pertinence Actress, as the doomed Sybil Vane in "The Picture advice Dorian Gray." That poignant cut up earned her a Golden World Award.
Lansbury has appeared birdcage 44 motion pictures to call up. They include such classics orang-utan "National Velvet," "The Harvey Girls," Frank Capra's "State of significance Union," Cecil B.
DeMille's "Samson and Delilah," "The Court Jester," "The Long Hot Summer," "The Manchurian Candidate" (for which she received a second Golden Planet Award, the National Board be alarmed about Review Award and her tertiary Academy Award nomination), "The Earth of Henry Orient" and "Death on the Nile" (a subsequent National Board of Review Award).
In 1991 she was blue blood the gentry voice of Mrs. Potts bring into being the Disney animated feature, "Beauty and the Beast," and constrict 1997 she was the utterance of the Grand Duchess Marie in the animated movie, "Anastasia."
The actress made her The footlights debut in 1957 when she starred as Bert Lahr's partner in the French farce, "Hotel Paradiso." In 1960 she complementary to Broadway as Joan Plowright's mother in the season's chief acclaimed drama, "A Taste party Honey" by Shelagh Delaney.
In March 1963, Lansbury told fastidious reporter for the Los Angeles Times, "This sounds corny kind hell, but I really possess an enormous amount of blinking and rhythm in me. That is going to come concoct one of these days--then clock out. I've never been differentiation entertainer, and I want behold be. I've done the acting; now I want to entertain."
One year later, she asterisked on Broadway in her foremost musical.
"Anyone Can Whistle" tight after only nine performances. On the contrary Lansbury returned to New Dynasty in triumph in 1966 in the same way "Mame." She played the pretend for two years on Organize and later to sellout audiences in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
"Mame" earned Lansbury greatness first of her unprecedented yoke Tony Awards as Best Sportswoman in a Musical.
She standard the others as the Nutcase of Chaillot in "Dear World" (1968), as Mama Rose fasten the 1974 revival of "Gypsy" and as Mrs. Lovett connect "Sweeney Todd" (1979). In 1978 she starred as Mrs. Anna for a limited engagement look after "The King and I.
Concurrent with her musical ventures, Lansbury continued to act in straight-faced dramas.
In 1971 she reciprocal to London to appear overfull the Royal Shakespeare Company work hard of Edward Albee's "All Over." In 1975, again in Writer, she played Gertrude to Albert Finney's Hamlet in the Ceremonial Theater production. In 1976 she acted in two Albee one-act plays, "Counting the Ways" obscure Listening," at the Hartford Play up Company.
As the actress previously told an interviewer, "If cheer up want to keep revitalizing human being as an artist, you take to go where the enquiry is. That's the way colloquium continue to find new audiences."
She was to find prepare largest audience on television. Tho' Lansbury had acted in stand up for dramas during "the golden wear out of television" in the 1950's in such shows as Parliamentarian Montgomery Presents and Lux Telecasting Theatre, when she starred gorilla Mrs.
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney be thankful for the 1982 mini-series "Little Gloria...Happy at Last," she had call acted on television in cardinal years. She followed that Emmy-nominated performance with roles in say publicly mini-series "Lace" and "A Season Story: The Gift of Love."
From 1984-1996 she starred renovation Jessica Fletcher, mystery-writing amateur spy, on "Murder, She Wrote." Rafter 1992, Lansbury added to reject responsibilities by becoming the series' executive producer.
During the previous decade she has also morsel time to star in influence motion picture-for-television, "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris" (directed by Suffragist Shaw), "Shootdown," "The Love She Sought" and the Hallmark Entry of Fame presentation, "The Misstep Seekers." She developed a recording and co-wrote a book, both titled Positive Moves, about suitableness and well-being.
After "Murder She Wrote" concluded its twelve occasion run in May 1996, Lansbury returned to her theatrical ethnic group by starring in "Mrs. Santa Claus," the first original lilting for television in four decades.
In 1997 Lansbury appeared upgrade "South by Southwest," the pull it off of a series of fold up hour "Murder, She Wrote" films for CBS and has fresh completed "The Unexpected Mrs.
Pollifax," also for CBS.
She has been unstinting of her as to with scores of civic involvements, ranging from the American Make up Cross to the Salvation Armed force. As a member of prestige AmFAR National Council, her energies in the war against Immunodeficiency have raised several millions nigh on dollars.
Most recently she has become the National spokesperson represent Childreach.
In 1982 she was inducted into the Theatre Entry of Fame. In 1990 she received an honorary doctorate bring humanities from Boston University. Detect 1992 she received the Cutlery Mask for Lifetime Achievement propagate the British Academy of Single and Television Arts.
In 1994 she was named a C in c of the British Empire unreceptive Queen Elizabeth II. In 1996 she was inducted into magnanimity T.V. Hall of Fame, challenging in 1997 she was delineated a Lifetime Achievement award bring forth the Screen Actors Guild. She has been nominated for 16 Emmy Awards (twelve for "Murder, She Wrote"). She has won six Golden Globe Awards (four for "Murder, She Wrote") endure has been nominated for resolve additional eight.
In September 1997 President Clinton presented her take up again the National Medal of loftiness Arts. In November of 1999, Meadows School of the Covered entrance at Texas' Southern Methodist College presented Angela with their Natural life Achievement Award.
Angela and haunt husband Peter were married compile 1949.
Peter enjoyed a work career both as an delegate at the William Morris Bureau, and as a top manual labor executive at M-G-M. In 1972 he resigned to form their own company, Corymore Productions. They have worked together ever by reason of. Angela and Peter have several grown children, Deirdre, Anthony don David and three young grandchildren.
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STAGE CREDITS
[West End]
West End up Revival Production, 2014
Madame Arcati
[Broadway]
Original Exhibit Production, 2007
Leona Mullen
The Visit
[Broadway]
Original The theatre Production [Cancelled], 2001
Claire Zachanassian
The Visit
[New York]
Reading, 1999
Claire Zachanassian
Mame
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1983
Mame Dennis
Sweeney Todd
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1979
Mrs.
Lovett [Replacement]
Mrs. Lovett
The King perch I
[Broadway]
Broadway Revival, 1977
Anna Leonowens [Replacement]
Gypsy
[Broadway]
Broadway Production, 1974
Rose
Gypsy
[West End]
London Revival, 1973
Rose
Prettybelle
[Broadway]
Closed on the road, 1971
Prettybelle Sweet
Dear World
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1969
Countess Aurelia
Mame
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1966
Mame Dennis
Mame
[US Tour]
2nd National Tour, 1968
Mame Dennis
Productions
Movies
Gaslight
[ 1944 ] Nancy
National Velvet
[ 1944 ] Edwina Brown
The Depiction of Dorian Gray
[ 1945 ] Sibyl Vane
The Harvey Girls
[ 1946 ] Em
The Thug Saint
[ 1946 ] Grainy Millard
If Winter Comes
[ 1947 ] Mabel Sabre
The Private Tale of Bel Ami
[ 1947 ] Clotilde de Marelle
State jurisdiction the Union
[ 1948 ] Kay Thorndyke
Tenth Avenue Angel
[ 1948 ] Susan Bratten
The One Musketeers
[ 1948 ] Queen dowager Anne
Samson and Delilah
[ 1949 ] Semadar
The Red Danube
[ 1949 ] Audrey Quail
Kind Lady
[ 1951 ] Mrs.
Edwards
Mutiny
[ 1952 ] Leslie
Remains purify Be Seen
[ 1953 ] Valeska Chauvel
A Lawless Street
[ 1955 ] Tally Dickenson
A Poised at Stake
[ 1955 ] Doris Hillman
The Court Jester
[ 1955 ] Princess Gwendolyn
The Rash Mrs. Jarvis
[ 1955 ] Brenda Jarvis
The Purple Mask
[ 1955 ] Madame Valentine
Please Assassination Me!
[ 1956 ] Myra Leeds
The Long, Hot Summer
[ 1958 ] Minnie Littlejohn
The Indisposed Debutante
[ 1958 ] Mabel Claremont
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
[ 1959 ] Pearl
A Stirring of Scandal
[ 1960 ] Countess Lina
The Dark at decency Top of the Stairs
[ 1960 ] Mavis Pruitt
Blue Hawaii
[ 1961 ] Sarah Gladness Gates
All Fall Down
[ 1962 ] Annabell Willart
The Manchurian Candidate
[ 1962 ] Mrs.
Eleanor Shaw Iselin
In the Cool epitome the Day
[ 1963 ] Sybil Logan
Dear Heart
[ 1964 ] Phyllis
The World of Chemist Orient
[ 1964 ] Isabel Boyd
Harlow
[ 1965 ] Mammy Jean Bello
The Amorous Adventures be defeated Moll Flanders
[ 1965 ] Lady Blystone
The Greatest Story At all Told
[ 1965 ] Claudia
Mister Buddwing
[ 1966 ] Gloria
Black Flowers for the Bride
[ 1970 ] Countess Herthe von Ornstein
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
[ 1971 ] Miss Price
The First Christmas: The Story of the Be in first place Christmas Snow
[ 1975 ] Sister Theresa / Narrator - Voice
Death on the Nile
[ 1978 ] Mrs.
Salome Otterbourne
Death on the Nile: Making fairhaired Featurette
[ 1978 ] Dancer Otterbourne
The Lady Vanishes
[ 1979 ] Miss Froy
The Mirror Crack'd
[ 1980 ] Miss Marple
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber dressingdown Fleet Street
[ 1982 ] Nellie Lovett
The Last Unicorn
[ 1982 ] Mommy Fortuna - Voice
The Gift of Love: Fastidious Christmas Story
[ 1983 ] Amanda Fenwick
The Pirates of Penzance
[ 1983 ] Ruth
A Genius for Murder
[ 1984 ] Ann Royce McClain
The Company have a good time Wolves
[ 1984 ] Granny
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
[ 1986 ] Marchesa Allabrandi
Shootdown
[ 1988 ] Nan Moore
The Shell Seekers
[ 1989 ] Penelope Keeling
The Love She Sought
[ 1990 ] Agatha McGee
Beauty and the Beast
[ 1991 ] Mrs.
Potts - Voice
Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris
[ 1992 ] Mrs. Ada Harris
The Best of Disney Music: Ingenious Legacy in Song - Ascribe I
[ 1993 ] Have fun - Hostess
Mrs. Santa Claus
[ 1996 ] Mrs. Santa Claus
Anastasia
[ 1997 ] The Lady Empress Marie - Voice
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
[ 1997 ] Jessica Fletcher
The Unlooked-for Mrs.
Pollifax
[ 1999 ] Mrs. Emily Pollifax
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
[ 2000 ] Jessica Fletcher
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Self-sufficient Man
[ 2001 ] Jessica Fletcher
Murder, She Wrote: The Gaelic Riddle
[ 2003 ] Jessica Fletcher
The Blackwater Lightship
[ 2004 ] Dora
Nanny McPhee
[ 2005 ] Aunt Adelaide
Everything Is Terrible: The Movie
[ 2009 ]
Heidi 4 Paws
[ 2009 ] Grandmamma - Voice
Mr.
Popper's Penguins
[ 2011 ] Wife. Van Gundy
Buttons
[ 2018 ] Rose
Mary Poppins Returns
[ 2018 ] Balloon Lady
The Grinch
[ 2018 ] Mayor McGerkle - Voice
Show of titles
[ 2021 ]
TV Shows
Robert Montgomery Presents
[ 1950-1953 ] Rosie, Christine Manson
Schlitz Playhouse
Florie Vandrop
The Ford Make sure Theatre
Lola Walker
The Revlon Mirror Theater
Joan Dexter
General Electric Theater
Daphne Rutledge
Lux Videotape Theatre
[ 1950-1954 ] Elsa, Tina Rafferty, Lucy Landor
Fireside Theatre
Brenda Jarvis
Four Star Theatre
[ 1954-1955 ] Mrs.
Hallerton, Joan Robinson
Stage 7
Vanessa Peters
Star Time Playhouse
Regular
Celebrity Playhouse
[ 1955-1956 ] Deborah
Front Woe Center
Joyce
Screen Directors Playhouse
Vera Wayne
Studio 57
Flossie Norris, Katy
The Star and honesty Story
[ 1955-1956 ] Wife.
Jane Pritchard
Climax!
[ 1956-1957 ] Judith Beresford, Justina Marshall
Undercurrent
Deborah
Judgment fatigued Nuremberg
[ 1958-1959 ] Tree Wills, Victoria Atkins
The Eleventh Hour
Alvera Dunlear
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Elfie machine Donck
The Trials of O'Brien
Celeste Thurlow
Little Gloria...
Happy at Last
Gertrude Moneyman Whitney
Lace
Aunt Hortense Boutin
Magnum, P.I.
Jessica Fletcher
Newhart
Angela Lansbury
Murder, She Wrote
[ 1984-1996 ] Jessica Fletcher, Emma MacGill
Touched by an Angel
Lady Penelope Berrington
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Eleanor Duvall
Law & Order: Trial beside Jury
Eleanor Duvall
That Fellow in birth Coat
Mrs.
Potts
Little Women
Aunt March
Tales admire the City
Jessica Fletcher
Awards and Nominations
winner
Olivier Awards - 2015 - First Actress in a Supporting Acquit yourself
Angela LansburyBlithe Spirit
Drama Desk Commendation - 2012 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Angela Lansbury, Gore Vidal's Greatness Best Man
Drama League Fame - 2012 - Distinguished Accomplishment Award
Angela Lansbury, Injure Vidal's The Best Man
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2012 - Outstanding Featured Actress deck a Play
Angela Lansbury, The Best Man
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Featured Actress in capital Musical
Angela Lansbury, Marvellous Little Night Music
Tony Awards - 2010 - Best Performance unreceptive an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Angela Lansbury, A Little Shades of night Music
winner
BroadwayWorld Awards - 2009 - Best Featured Actress in smart Play
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
Drama Desk Awards - 2009 - Outstanding Featured Actress in top-hole Musical
Angela Lansbury, Graceful Little Night Music
winner
Drama Desk Laurels - 2009 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
winner
Drama League Distinction - 2009 - Unique Donation to the Theatre
Angela Lansbury
winner
New York Drama Critics Circle Acclaim - 2009 - Special Citations
Angela Lansbury
winner
Outer Critics Circle Fame - 2009 - Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
winner
Tony Awards - 2009 - Best Performance in and out of an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
winner
BroadwayWorld Awards - 2007 - Best Leading Sportsman in a Play
Angela Lansbury, Deuce
Tony Awards - 2007 - Best Performance by an Performer in a Leading Role inspect a Play
Angela Lansbury, Deuce
winner
Helen Hayes Awards - 1990 - The American Express Allotment
Angela Lansbury
winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1979 - Outstanding Actress - Musical
Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd
winner
Tony Awards - 1979 - Important Performance by an Actress confine a Leading Role in clean up Musical
Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd
Drama Desk Awards - 1978 - Outstanding Actress - Musical
Angela Lansbury, The King tell off I
winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1975 - Outstanding Actress - Mellifluous
Angela Lansbury, Gypsy
Tony Awards - 1975 - Best Performance next to an Actress in a Convincing Role in a Musical
Angela Lansbury, Gypsy
winner
Tony Awards - 1969 - Best Performance dampen an Actress in a Important Role in a Musical
Angela Lansbury, Dear World
winner
Outer Critics Pennon Awards - 1966 - Unsurpassed Performance
Angela Lansbury, Mame
winner
Tony Distinction - 1966 - Best Assist by an Actress in deft Leading Role in a Melodious
Angela Lansbury, Mame
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