Angela Lansbury

Lansbury was born into an upper-middle-class family in central London, the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. To escape the Blitz, she moved to the United States in 1940, studying acting in New York City. Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Despite being largely seen as a B-list star, she received three Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for her roles in ''Gaslight'' (1944), ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (1945), and ''The Manchurian Candidate'' (1962).
She transitioned her career to Broadway where she won five Tony Awards; four for Best Actress in a Musical for her performances in ''Mame'' (1966), ''Dear World'' (1969), ''Gypsy'' (1975), and ''Sweeney Todd'' (1979), followed by a win for Best Featured Actress in a Play for ''Blithe Spirit'' (2009). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in ''Deuce'' (2007) and ''A Little Night Music'' (2010). She was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2022.
On television, she achieved worldwide fame as the sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the CBS whodunit series ''Murder, She Wrote'' (1984–1996), for which she was nominated for 12 consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The series is one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history. She also acted in films such as ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' (1971), ''Death on the Nile'' (1978), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1991), ''Anastasia'' (1997), ''Nanny McPhee'' (2005) and ''Mary Poppins Returns'' (2018). Provided by Wikipedia
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