The combination makes a good mix for acting. But put me onstage, and the Irish comes out. As for the English half–that's my reserved side. That's where I got my sense of comedy and whimsy. I'm eternally grateful for the Irish side of me. In January 1930, Macgill gave birth to twin boys, Bruce and Edgar, leading the Lansburys to move from their Poplar flat to a house in Mill Hill, North London on weekends, they would vacate to a rural farm in Berrick Salome, Oxfordshire. Angela had an older half-sister, Isolde, from Macgill's previous marriage to Reginald Denham. Her paternal grandfather was the Labour Party leader George Lansbury, a man whom she felt "awed" by and considered "a giant in my youth". Her father was the wealthy English timber merchant and politician Edgar Lansbury, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain and former mayor of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar. Her mother was Belfast-born Irish Moyna Macgill (born Charlotte Lillian McIldowie), an actress who regularly appeared on stage in London's West End and who also appeared in several films. Although her birthplace has often been given as Poplar, East London, she rejected this, stating that while she had ancestral connections to Poplar, she was born in Regent's Park, Central London. See also: Angela Lansbury on screen and stage Childhood: 1925–1942 Īngela Brigid Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family on October 16, 1925. In the 21st century, she toured in several theatrical productions and appeared in family films such as Nanny McPhee (2005) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).Īmong her numerous accolades were six Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Academy Honorary Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.Įarly life and career beginnings She also moved into voice work, contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Anastasia (1997).
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Through Corymore Productions, a company that she co-owned with her husband Peter Shaw, Lansbury assumed ownership of the series and was its executive producer during its final four seasons. Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide fame as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. She continued to make theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade, including leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The King and I, as well as in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Moving into musical theatre, Lansbury gained stardom for playing the leading role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966), winning her first Tony Award and becoming a gay icon.Īmidst difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury moved from California to Ireland's County Cork in 1970.
Lansbury was largely seen as a B-list star during this period, but her role in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) received widespread acclaim and is frequently ranked as one of her best performances. She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952, she began to supplement her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed to MGM and obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). To escape the Blitz, she moved to the United States in 1940, studying acting in New York City. Lansbury was born to an upper-middle-class family in Central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. Although based for much of her life in the United States, her work attracted international attention.
In a career spanning over seventy years, she played various roles across film, stage, and television. Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (Octo– October 11, 2022) was an Irish-British and American actress and singer.
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