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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 16, 1925
Died
October 11, 2022
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Angela Brigid Lansbury
- آنجلا لنسبوری
Angela Lansbury
2.2 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.0
Angela Lansbury
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
0.0
"There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
Show of Titles
2021
6.5
Balloon Lady
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
6.6
Rose
Buttons
2018
0.0
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
6.9
Mayor McGerkle (voice)
The Grinch
2018
6.4
Self
Every Act of Life
2018
6.8
Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
Howard
2018
7.1
Aunt March
Little Women
2017
0.0
self
Miracle on 42nd Street
2017
Credits
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Angela Lansbury
2022
7.0
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
0.0
Mary Poppins Returns
as Balloon Lady
2018
6.5
Buttons
as Rose
2018
6.6
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
0.0
The Grinch
as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
2018
6.9
Every Act of Life
as Self
2018
6.4
Howard
as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
2018
6.8
Little Women
as Aunt March
2017
7.1
Miracle on 42nd Street
as self
2017
0.0
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
as Self
2017
0.0
Women He's Undressed
as Self
2015
5.4
Driving Miss Daisy
as Daisy Werthan
2015
8.0
Six by Sondheim
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
2013
7.1
Mr. Popper's Penguins
as Mrs. Van Gundy
2011
6.0
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
as Self
2010
0.0
🎬
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
as Self / Hostess
2009
0.0
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2009
7.2
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
as Self
2009
7.3
Heidi 4 Paws
as Grandmother (voice)
2008
6.0
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
as Self
2008
0.0
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
as Self (archive footage)
2007
5.5
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self (archive footage)
2007
10.0
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
2007
0.0
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
as Self
2006
0.0
Nanny McPhee
as Aunt Adelaide
2005
6.7
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2005
8.0
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
2005
7.2
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Eleanor Duvall
2005
8.1
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
2004
8.0
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2004
9.0
🎬
Queen of Diamonds
as Herself
2004
0.0
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
2004
8.0
The Blackwater Lightship
as Dora
2004
5.9
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
as Self
2003
6.5
Broadway's Lost Treasures
as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
2003
6.1
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
as Jessica Fletcher
2003
7.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
7.0
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
2003
9.4
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
2002
7.5
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
as Self
2002
10.0
The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
6.5
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
as Narrator
2001
9.0
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
2001
6.3
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Self
2001
0.0
🎬
Disney Through The Decades
2001
0.0
On Cukor
as Self
2000
0.0
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Jessica Fletcher
2000
6.7
Fantasia 2000
as Self - Host
2000
7.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Eleanor Duvall
1999
7.9
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
as Emily Pollifax
1999
6.4
Forever Hollywood
as Self
1999
8.0
Glorious Technicolor
as Narrator (voice)
1998
6.9
Anastasia
as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
1997
7.6
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
1997
6.2
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
as Jessica Fletcher
1997
7.0
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
1997
6.3
Mrs. Santa Claus
as Mrs. Santa Claus
1996
6.0
🎬
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
as Self
1996
0.0
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
Inside the Dream Factory
as Self
1995
6.0
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
as Narrator
1995
0.0
Your Studio and You
as Angela Lansbury
1995
6.8
A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
0.0
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
as Narrator
1994
0.0
Touched by an Angel
as Lady Penelope Berrington
1994
7.2
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
1994
6.5
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
as Self
1994
9.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self
1993
4.5
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
as Mrs. Ada Harris
1992
7.2
🎬
Mickey's Audition
as Sylvia
1992
4.0
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
as Narrator (voice)
1992
10.0
Euro Disney : L'Ouverture
as Self - Chanteuse
1992
6.8
The Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
as Self - Performer
1992
7.5
Beauty and the Beast
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
1991
7.7
The Trouble With Agatha Christie
as Self - Actress
1991
10.0
The Love She Sought
as Agatha McGee
1990
6.6
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic
as Self / Host
1990
8.3
The Shell Seekers
as Penelope Keeling
1989
6.3
Shootdown
as Nan Moore
1988
5.4
Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves
as Herself
1988
0.0
🎬
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
as Marchesa Allabrandi
1986
8.7
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
as Marchesa Allabrandi
1986
4.8
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self
1986
8.0
Murder, She Wrote
as Jessica Fletcher
1984
7.5
The Company of Wolves
as Granny
1984
6.3
The First Olympics: Athens 1896
as Alice Garrett
1984
5.3
Lace
as Aunt Hortense Boutin
1984
7.1
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
as Amanda Fenwick
1983
6.4
A Talent for Murder
as Ann Royce McClain
1983
5.9
The Pirates of Penzance
as Ruth
1983
6.0
The Last Unicorn
as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
1982
7.2
Little Gloria... Happy at Last
as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1982
5.4
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Nellie Lovett
1982
8.0
Magnum, P.I.
as Jessica Fletcher
1980
7.3
The Mirror Crack'd
as Miss Marple
1980
6.1
The Lady Vanishes
as Miss Froy
1979
6.0
The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
1978
7.4
Death on the Nile
as Salome Otterbourne
1978
7.1
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
1975
5.3
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.4
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
0.0
The Julie Andrews Hour
as Self
1972
6.0
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Miss Price
1971
7.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
Something for Everyone
as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
1970
6.4
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Mister Buddwing
as Gloria
1966
5.9
Harlow
as Mama Jean Bello
1965
5.4
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as Lady Blystone
1965
5.4
The Greatest Story Ever Told
as Claudia
1965
6.4
Dear Heart
as Phyllis
1965
6.4
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Elfie van Donck
1964
7.1
The World of Henry Orient
as Isabel Boyd
1964
5.8
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
In the Cool of the Day
as Sybil Logan
1963
5.4
The Manchurian Candidate
as Mrs. Iselin
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
All Fall Down
as Annabell Willart
1962
6.0
Blue Hawaii
as Sarah Lee Gates
1961
5.9
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
as Mavis Pruitt
1960
6.4
A Breath of Scandal
as Countess Lina
1960
5.1
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
as Pearl
1959
6.3
The Reluctant Debutante
as Mabel Claremont
1958
6.6
The Long, Hot Summer
as Minnie Littlejohn
1958
7.0
Claire
as Vera Wayne
1956
0.0
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter / Performer / Winner
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host/Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host/Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host / Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner/Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Presenter
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Host /Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter/Winner
1956
5.9
Please Murder Me
as Myra Leeds
1956
5.8
The Court Jester
as Princess Gwendolyn
1955
7.3
A Lawless Street
as Tally Dickenson
1955
5.3
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Vera Wayne
1955
6.5
The Purple Mask
as Madame Valentine
1955
5.0
A Life at Stake
as Doris Hillman
1955
5.2
🎬
Stage 7
as Vanessa Peters
1955
7.0
Climax!
as Justina Marshall
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Judith Beresford
1954
3.3
🎬
The George Gobel Show
as Self
1954
7.3
Studio 57
1954
0.0
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
0.0
Remains to Be Seen
as Valeska Chauvel
1953
5.7
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Daphne Rutledge
1953
6.4
The Ford Television Theatre
as Lola Walker
1952
7.3
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Joan Robinson
1952
6.7
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Mrs. Hallerton
1952
6.7
Mutiny
as Leslie Waldridge
1952
4.8
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Penelope Keeling
1951
8.6
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Dora
1951
8.6
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Florie Vandrop
1951
7.2
Kind Lady
as Mrs. Edwards
1951
7.0
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Leslie
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Self - Intermission Guest
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Lucy Landor
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Tina Rafferty
1950
6.3
🎬
Lux Video Theatre
as Elsa
1950
6.3
Your Show of Shows
1950
6.3
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Christine Manson
1950
5.6
Robert Montgomery Presents
as Rosie
1950
5.6
Samson and Delilah
as Semadar
1949
6.5
The Red Danube
as Audrey Quail
1949
6.3
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
7.9
The Three Musketeers
as Queen Ann
1948
6.7
State of the Union
as Kay Thorndyke
1948
6.7
Tenth Avenue Angel
as Susan Bratten
1948
6.0
If Winter Comes
as Mabel Sabre
1947
6.6
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
as Clotilde de Marelle
1947
6.1
Till the Clouds Roll By
as London Specialty
1946
5.7
The Hoodlum Saint
as Dusty Millard
1946
5.2
The Harvey Girls
as Em
1946
6.5
The Picture of Dorian Gray
as Sibyl Vane
1945
7.1
National Velvet
as Edwina Brown
1945
7.2
Gaslight
as Nancy
1944
7.5
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2