Angela Lansbury
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.
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Movies (48)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Angela Lansbury
2022
Show of Titles
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
2021
Knives Out
Thanks (Crew)
2019
Mary Poppins Returns
as Balloon Lady
2018
Buttons
as Rose
2018
Harold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
The Grinch
as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
2018
Every Act of Life
as Self
2018
Howard
as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
2018
Miracle on 42nd Street
as self
2017
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
as Self
2017
Women He's Undressed
as Self
2015
Driving Miss Daisy
as Daisy Werthan
2015
Six by Sondheim
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
2013
Mr. Popper's Penguins
as Mrs. Van Gundy
2011
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
as Self
2010
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
as Self / Hostess
2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2009
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
as Self
2009
Heidi 4 Paws
as Grandmother (voice)
2008
Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
as Self
2008
Elvis: #1 Hit Performances
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Elvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self (archive footage)
2007
Words and Music by Jerry Herman
as Self
2007
Private Screenings: Angela Lansbury
as Self
2006
Nanny McPhee
as Aunt Adelaide
2005
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
2004
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
2004
Queen of Diamonds
as Herself
2004
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
as Self
2004
The Blackwater Lightship
as Dora
2004
Reflections on 'Gaslight'
as Self
2003
Broadway's Lost Treasures
as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
2003
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
as Jessica Fletcher
2003
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self
2003
The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
as Self
2003
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as (archive footage)
2002
The Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
as Self
2002
The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
as Narrator
2001
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
2001
Music Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
as Self
2001
Disney Through The Decades
2001
On Cukor
as Self
2000
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
as Jessica Fletcher
2000
