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Angela Lansbury
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury was a British-American actress and singer. In a career spanning 80 years, she played various roles across stage and screen. She won numerous accolades including six Tony Awards, six Golden Globe Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. She received two honorary BAFTA Awards in 1991…
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entertainment · British-American actress and singer (1925–2022) · voice actor · singer · film producer · writer · character actor · screenwriter · television actor · stage actor · film actor · television producer · also Angela Lansbury, Angela Brigid Lansbury, Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, Ángela Lansbury, Lansbury
Born 16 October 1925 · Died 11 October 2022 · Q206856
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Angela Lansbury
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2023· 1 entry
New York Post: Angela Lansbury’s LA home flies off market for $500K over ask
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2022· 14 entries
People: How Angela Lansbury, the Original Mrs. Potts, Was Honored in 'Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration'
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AOL: How Rich Was Angela Lansbury Upon Her Death at Age 96?
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SheKnows: Angela Lansbury Showed Me How I Want to Age
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The Cheat Sheet: Angela Lansbury Once Said People Liked Jessica Fletcher from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Because She Was ‘Honorable’
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Decider: Angela Lansbury, Dead At 96: Was She A Great Trouper, Or The Greatest Trouper?
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Yahoo: How Angela Lansbury Landed Her Murder, She Wrote Role, Which Was Written for Another Star
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Yahoo! Sports: Angela Lansbury: In Memoriam, 1925-2022
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Decider: Angela Lansbury’s Best Movies, From ‘Beauty and the Beast’ to ‘Gaslight’: Where to Stream
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New York Post: Celebrities react to Angela Lansbury’s death: ‘She was a glorious one’
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Hollywood Life: Kathy Griffin, Jason Alexander & More Celebs Mourn Angela Lansbury After Her Death At 96
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Insider: Angela Lansbury's life in photos
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Yahoo: Angela Lansbury Tributes Pour in Around Hollywood: ‘Legend Across So Many Mediums’
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Died 2022-10-11.
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“I'm eternally grateful for the Irish side of me. That's where I got my sense of comedy and whimsy. As for the English half — that's my reserved side ... But put me onstage, and the Irish comes out. The combination makes a good mix for acting.”
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2018· 1 entry
Appeared in the family film Buttons: A Christmas Tale, as well as in the film Mary Poppins Returns; her cameo role as the Balloon Lady involved singing the song "Nowhere To Go But Up"
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2014· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2014).
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Lansbury was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II
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2013· 1 entry
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors voted to bestow upon Lansbury an Honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievements in the industry
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Stated that she was at first "terribly disappointed, but subsequently very glad that [she] did not win" because she believed that she would have otherwise had a less successful career
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2006· 1 entry
Purchased a $2 million condominium in Manhattan
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Malice Domestic Poirot Award (2005).
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2002· 1 entry
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2000).
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1997· 1 entry
A Story To Die For in 2000, The Last Free Man in 2001, and The Celtic Riddle in 2003
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Lucy Award (1996).
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And ended with Lansbury voicing a "Goodbye from Jessica" message
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Disney Legends (1995).
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1992· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Murder, She Wrote (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
And 2013, the National Medal of the Arts in 1997, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2000, and the Academy Honorary Award in 2013
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1990· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Murder, She Wrote (1990).
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Starred in The Love She Sought as an American school teacher who falls in love with a Catholic priest while visiting Ireland; Lansbury thought it "a marvelous woman's story
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1989· 2 entries
Her own company, Corymore Productions, began co-producing the show with Universal
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Co-created with her husband Peter Shaw, Corymore Productions, a company where she co-produced the series and served as an executive producer
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1988· 2 entries
Portrayed Nan Moore – the mother of a victim of the real-life Korean Air Lines Flight 007 plane crash – in Shootdown
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Released a VHS video titled Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being, in which she outlined her personal exercise routine, and in 1990 published a book with the same title co-writ
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1987· 2 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Murder, She Wrote (1987).
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A spin-off was produced, The Law & Harry McGraw, although it proved short-lived
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1986· 1 entry
Co-hosted the New York Philharmonic's televised Liberty Weekend tribute to the centenary of the Statue of Liberty with Kirk Douglas
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1984· 3 entries
With the rest of the first season airing on Sundays from 8 to 9 pm
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for Murder, She Wrote (1984).
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Released album “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”.
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1983· 1 entry
Lansbury was offered two main television roles, one in a sitcom and the other in a detective drama series, Murder, She Wrote
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1982· 1 entry
Lansbury took on the role of an upper middle-class housewife who champions workers' rights in A Little Family Business, a farce set in Baltimore in which her son Anthony also starred
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Sarah Siddons Award (1981).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1979).
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Lansbury appeared as Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes, a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film
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1976· 1 entry
And 1987, she underwent cosmetic surgery on her neck
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1975).
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Awarded Sarah Siddons Award (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Gypsy toured the US; in Chicago, Lansbury was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance
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1972· 1 entry
Lansbury returned to London's West End to perform in the Royal Shakespeare Company's theatrical production of Edward Albee's All Over at the Aldwych Theatre
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1968).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (1966).
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Lansbury took on the title role of Mame Dennis in the musical Mame, Jerry Herman's musical adaptation of the 1955 novel Auntie Mame (written by Patrick Dennis)
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1963· 1 entry
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Manchurian Candidate (1963).
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1962· 1 entry
Appeared in the Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate as Eleanor Iselin, cast in the role by John Frankenheimer
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1959· 1 entry
The family moved to Malibu, settling into a house that had been designed by Aaron Green on the Pacific Coast Highway
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1951· 1 entry
The couple both became naturalized US citizens, albeit retaining their British citizenship via dual nationality
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1949· 1 entry
Lansbury married actor and producer Peter Shaw, and they remained married until he died in 2003
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1948· 1 entry
Lansbury appeared in an audio adaptation of Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage for NBC University Theatre, and the following year she starred in their adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
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1946· 2 entries
But the couple remained friends until his death
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Lansbury played her first American character as Em, a honky-tonk saloon singer in the Oscar-winning Wild West musical The Harvey Girls; her singing was dubbed by Virginia Reese
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1945· 3 entries
Lansbury married Richard Cromwell, an artist and decorator whose acting career had come to a standstill
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).
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To actor Richard Cromwell, who was 16 years older than she
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1942· 1 entry
Signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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1940· 1 entry
Began studying acting at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in Kensington, west London, first appearing onstage as a lady-in-waiting in the school's production of Maxwell Anderson's Mary of Scotland
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1925· 1 entry
Born 1925-10-16.
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