Angela Lansbury

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AKA: Angela Brigid Lansbury
Nationality: English
Birthdate: 10/16/1925
Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom

biography

One of the most respected and versatile actresses of the 20th century, Angela Lansbury was a star in three mediums – film, television, and stage – and maintained her status over the course of a 60-year-career. Her film career began with an Oscar nomination for 1944’s “Gaslight” and encompassed everything from thrillers like “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) to the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” (1992). On television, she was a veteran of live broadcasts in the 1950s and enjoyed a 12-year run as sleuth Jessica Fletcher on “Murder, She Wrote” (CBS, 1984-1996). And on Continued

Credits

Aunt Adelaide
2006
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Eleanor Duvall
2005
Host
2000
of Dowager Empress Marie
1997
of Mrs Potts
1991
Granny
1984
of Mommy Fortuna
1982
Salome Otterbourne
1978
Miss Price
1971
Eleanor Iselin--Raymond's Mother
1962
Minnie Littlejohn
1958
Nancy Oliver
1944
Mama Jean Bello
Madame Valentine
Mabel Claremont
Countess Lina
Sarah Lee Gates
Phyllis
Princess Gwendolyn
Annabel Willart
Herself
Miss Froy
Tally Dickinson
Countess Herthe von Ornstein
Miss Jane Marple

milestones

Year
Milestone
1940 
Moved to America with family; first settled in NYC
1942 
Worked as a singer at the Samovar Club in Montreal
1942 
Family moved to Los Angeles
 
Signed to contract at MGM after a screen test
1944 
Nominated for an Academy Award for her film debut in "Gaslight" as the slightly malevolent maid Nancy
Continued

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