Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned seven decades. Her first film appearance was in
Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy Award nomination as a malevolent maid, and she expanded her repertoire to Broadway and television in the 1950s. Respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including eighteen Emmy Awards.
Some of her films include
The Manchurian Candidate (1962),
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and
Beauty and the Beast (1991) and she was successful in such Broadway productions as
Blithe Spirit,
Gypsy,
Mame, and
Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is more recently known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series
Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996.
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