Angela Lansbury

Angela Brigid Lansbury (London, October 16, 1925) is a British actress of American descent.



Content
[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Lansbury is the daughter of the actress Moyna MacGill born in Belfast and the granddaughter of the labour politician George Lansbury. Her father, Edgar Lansbury, died in 1934 when Angela was 9 years old. When she was 14 years old started the Second World War and they emigrated with her mother to the United States where she wasnaturalized until 1951 American.
 * 2 Career
 * 3 Filmography
 * 4 Tv
 * 5 Theatre (Broadway)
 * 6 Prices
 * 6.1 Academy Award for best supporting actress
 * 6.2 BAFTA Awards
 * 6.3 Emmy Awards
 * 6.4 Golden Globes
 * 6.5 National Board of Review
 * 6.6 Tony Award
 * 7 external links

As a young actress in Los Angeles she earned with work in a Department store.

Lansbury was briefly married (1945-1946) with the 15 years older American actor Richard Cromwell. In 1948 she married businessman Peter Shaw of Irish descent, a former friend of actress Joan Crawford. Shaw has played a large role as manager of her career. Their marriage lasted until the death of Shaw in 2003.

Lansbury has a son, Antony (formerly producer of Murder, She Wrote), a daughter, Deirdre, and a stepson David Shaw, Angela Battarrais.

She lives in Brentwood, California. During holidays, she goes to her home in County Cork, Ireland.

Lansbury underwent a knee replacement surgery In June 2005. ==Career[ Edit] == Lansbury made her film debut, for which she received an Oscar nomination, in 1944 as the Minx in the film Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. This was immediately followed by yet another Oscar nomination for her role as Sibyl Vane in a film adaptation of the picture of Dorian Gray (' The Picture of Dorian Gray ', 1945) by Oscar Wilde. Many movies followed in a long and varied career.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lansbury played in The Manchurian candidate (1962) the chilly, ruthless mother of a veteran who is brainwashed by Communists a killer. They got a lot of praise for her chills causing occur, resulting in a third Oscar nomination. In the movie her son was played by Laurence Harvey who only three years younger than Lansbury. Himself said in an interview with CNN that Lansbury this evil character in ' The Manchurian candidate ' was her favorite role.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She played Miss Marple in The Mirror crack'd (1980) from the novel by Agatha Christie. They then went on a voice mail system when it's animated films such as The Last Unicorn (1982), the singing teapot in beauty and the beast (Disney, 1991) and Anastasia (1997).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lansbury had success on Broadway with musicals, among other things, Anyone Can Whistle, Mame (1966), Dear World (1969) and Gypsy (1974).She also played Mrs. Lovett in Stephen Sondheim's famous musicalSweeney Todd. For these musicals, she received a Tony Award.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Her greatest fame got Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher in the science-fiction TV series Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996). This series is one of the longest-running detective novels in the American television crime dramas.Lansbury was one of the highest paid actresses and earned her the record as the actress with the most nominations (12) without an Emmy win.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Lansbury stands out for its bright, fixed style of acting. Her facial expressions, reactions and gestures are very deliberately and focused. The series Murder, She Wrote, shows many similarities with another long-running series Diagnosis Murder  in which Dick Van Dyke played the lead role. Both series are built around a well-known, older actor and serve as workshops for prospective directors and script writers.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Early 1990s got Lansbury by Queen Elizabeth II the ' Order ' of the British Empire (CBE). In 1995 she was 'Disney Legend'. The Screen Actors Guild actors Trade Union gave her a ' Lifetime Achievement Award ' in 1997 and in the same year she received the National Medal of Arts, the highest award that an American artist can get. In 2000 received the Kennedy Center Honors Lansbury. ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Tv<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Theatre (Broadway)<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Prizes<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Academy Award for best supporting actress<span class="mw-editsection" len="365" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominated:
 * Gaslight (1944)
 * National Velvet (1944)
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
 * The Harvey Girls (1946)
 * The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
 * Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
 * The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
 * If Winter Comes (1947)
 * State of the Union (1948)
 * The Three Musketeers (1948)
 * Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
 * The Red Danube (1949)
 * Samson and Delilah (1949)
 * Child Lady (1951)
 * Mutiny (1952)
 * Remains to Be Seen (1953)
 * A Life at Stake (1954)
 * The Purple Mask (1955)
 * A Lawless Street (1955)
 * The Court Jester (1956)
 * Please Murder Me (1956)
 * The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
 * The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
 * Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
 * The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
 * A Breath of Scandal (1960)
 * Blue Hawaii (1961) starring Elvis Presley
 * Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1962)
 * All Fall Down (1962)
 * The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
 * In the Cool of the Day (1963)
 * The World of Henry Orient (1964)
 * Dear Heart (1964)
 * The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
 * The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
 * Harlow (1965)
 * Mister Buddwing (1966)
 * Something for Everyone (1970)
 * Bedknobs and broomsticks (' Bedknobs and broomsticks ', 1971)
 * Death on the Nile (1978)
 * The Lady Vanishes (1979)
 * The mirror cracked (' The Mirror crack'd ', 1980)
 * The Last Unicorn (1982) (voice)
 * The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
 * The Company of Wolves (1984)
 * Ingrid (1985) (documentary)
 * Beauty and the beast (Beauty and the Beast, 1991) (voice)
 * Your Studio and You (1995) (short subject)
 * Anastasia (1997) (voice)
 * Fantasia 2000 (1999) (guest one of the Disney people)
 * About Schmidt (2002) (voice)
 * Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)
 * Nanny McPhee (2005)
 * Kingdom Hearts II (2006) (Video game, voice)
 * Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
 * The Story of The First Christmas Snow (1975)
 * Sweeney Todd (1982)
 *  Little Gloria ... Happy at Last (1982)
 * The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
 * A Talent for Murder (1984)
 * Lace (1984)
 * The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984)
 * The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984) (pilot for Murder, She Wrote )
 * Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996)
 * Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)
 * Shootdown (1988)
 * The Shell Seekers (1989)
 * The Love She Sought (1990)
 * Mrs. ' Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
 * Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)
 * Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997)
 * The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)
 * Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)
 * Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
 * Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
 * The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
 * Law and Order (2005) (guest appearance)
 * Hotel Paradiso (april-July 1957)
 * A Taste of Honey (October 1960 -september 1961)
 * Anyone Can Whistle (april 1964)
 * Mame (may 1966 -January 1969)
 * Dear World (February-may1969)
 * Gypsy (september 1974 -January 1975)
 * The King and I (May 1977 -Dec. 1978)
 * Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (March 1979 -June 1980)
 * A Little Family Business (december 1982)
 * Mame (July-August. 1983)
 * Short Talks on the Universe (november 2002)
 * Oscar and the Pink Lady (March 2006)

===BAFTA Awards<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Won:
 * Gaslight, 1945
 * The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1946
 * The Manchurian candidate, 1962

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominated:
 * Britannia Award (Lifetime Achievement, 2003)

===Emmy Awards<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominated:
 * Best opposite for Murder on the Nile, 1978

===Golden Globes<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Won:
 * Best guest actress in a series (for the role of Eleanor Duvall in "Law & Order: Trial by Jury", 2005)
 * Best co-star in a Miniseries or movie (The Blackwater Lightship, 2004)
 * Best lead actress for Murder, She Wrote, 12 times (1985 to 1996)
 * Best individual performance in a variety or music program, 3 times ((1983, 1987, 1990)
 * Best lead actress in a Miniseries or movie (Little Gloria ... Happy at Last, 1983)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominated:
 * Best performance by an actress in a television series-Drama for Murder, She Wrote in 1985, 1987, 1990 and 1992)
 * Best co-star (The Manchurian candidate, 1963)
 * Best co-star (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1946)

===National Board of Review<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Tony Award<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Won: Best leading role for an actress in a musical for
 * Best performance by an actress in a television series-Drama for Murder, She Wrote in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995)
 * Best co-star in a Miniseries or TV film (A Gift of Love: A Christmas Story, 1983)
 * Best motion picture actress-musical/comedy (Bedknobs and broomsticks, 1972)
 * Best motion picture actress-musical/comedy (Something for Everyone, 1970)
 * Best co-star (Death on the Nile, 1978)
 * Best co-star (All Fall Down and The Manchurian candidate, 1962)

<p lang="en" len="43" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Best actress for actress in a play
 * Mame, 1966
 * Dear World, 1969
 * Gypsy: A Musical Fable, 1975
 * Sweeney Todd, 1979

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Nominated in 2007 as best actress in a play for Deuce and in 2010 as best actress in a supporting role in a musical for A Little Night Music.
 * Blithe Spirit, 2009