Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury
1925 -
American born London

Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) . British character actress, long in the United States. The daughter of an actress and the granddaughter of a high-ranking politician, Lansbury studied acting from her youth, departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film, Gaslight (1944). Two pictures later, she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Now established as a supporting player of quality, she began a long career, often as "the other woman" in major productions and as the leading lady in lesser films. Her features, while not at all old-appearing, gave her an air of maturity that allowed her to pass as much older than she actually was, and she began playing mother roles, often to players of her own age, while yet in her thirties. She concentrated more and more on stage work, achieving notable success in a number of Broadway plays and musicals, winning four Tony Awards in sixteen years. Although active in television since the early 1950s, she obtained her greatest fame in the 1980s by starring in the light mystery program "Murder, She Wrote" (1984). As Jessica Fletcher, she became known and loved by millions for well over a decade. She also became known for the odd fact of almost annual Emmy Award nominations for the role without ever winning for it. An institution in American theatre and television, she is also an inspiration for the graciousness of her personality, which is often exploited and always admired. Spouse Peter Shaw (12 August 1949 - 29 January 2003) (his death) 2 children, Richard Cromwell (27 September 1945 - August 1946) (divorced).

Kingdom Hearts II (2005) , Nanny McPhee (2005) , "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2005) , "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005) , The Blackwater Lightship (2004) , Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003) , "Touched by an Angel" (2002) , Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001) , Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000) , The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999) , Anastasia (1997) , Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) , Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997) , Mrs. Santa Claus (1996) ,"Murder, She Wrote" (1996) , Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992) , Beauty and the Beast (1991) , The Love She Sought (1990) , The Shell Seekers (1989) , Shootdown (1988) , "Magnum, P.I." (1986) , Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986) , The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984) , The Company of Wolves (1984) , The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984) , Lace (1984) , A Talent for Murder (1984) , The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) , The Pirates of Penzance (1983) , The Last Unicorn (1982), Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) , Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982) , The Mirror Crack'd (1980) , The Lady Vanishes (1979) , Death on the Nile (1978) , The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1975) , Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) , Something for Everyone (1970) , Mister Buddwing (1966) , "The Trials of O'Brien" (1965) , "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1965) , Harlow (1965/I) , The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) , The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) , Dear Heart (1964) , The World of Henry Orient (1964) , In the Cool of the Day (1963) , "The Eleventh Hour" (1963) , The Manchurian Candidate (1962) , All Fall Down (1962) , Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) , Blue Hawaii (1961) , A Breath of Scandal (1960) , The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) , "Playhouse 90" (1958) , Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959) , The Reluctant Debutante (1958) , The Long, Hot Summer (1958) , "Climax!" (1956) , "Undercurrent" (1957) ,"Studio 57" (1956) , "Screen Directors Playhouse" (1956) , "Front Row Center" (1956) ,"Celebrity Playhouse" (1956) , Please Murder Me (1956) , "The Star and the Story" (1955) , The Court Jester (1956) , A Lawless Street (1955) , "Star Time Playhouse" (1955) , The Purple Mask (1955), "Stage 7" (1955) , "Four Star Playhouse" (1954) , "Fireside Theatre" (1955) , The Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis (1955) , "General Electric Theater" (1954) , "Lux Video Theatre"(1950) , "Your Show of Shows" (1954) , A Life at Stake (1954) , "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (1953) , "The Ford Television Theatre" (1953) , "The Revlon Mirror Theater" (1953) , "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1950) , Remains to Be Seen (1953) , Mutiny (1952) , Kind Lady (1951), Samson and Delilah (1949) , The Red Danube (1949) , Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) , The Three Musketeers (1948) , State of the Union (1948) , If Winter Comes (1947) , The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) , Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) , The Hoodlum Saint (1946) , The Harvey Girls (1946) , The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) , National Velvet (1944) , Gaslight (1944)