Angela Lansbury

Acting · Born 1925-10-16 in London, England, UK

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…

Filmography

• The Manchurian Candidate as Mrs. Iselin
• The Last Unicorn as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
• Beauty and the Beast as Mrs. Potts (voice)
• Death on the Nile as Salome Otterbourne
• The Court Jester as Princess Gwendolyn
• Anastasia as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Miss Price
• Gaslight as Nancy
• The Long, Hot Summer as Minnie Littlejohn
• The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sibyl Vane

TV

• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Eleanor Duvall
• Magnum, P.I. as Jessica Fletcher
• Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
• Touched by an Angel as Lady Penelope Berrington
• Today as Self
• The View as Self
• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• General Electric Theater as Daphne Rutledge
• Hallmark Hall of Fame as Penelope Keeling