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Angela Lansbury
Age: 84
Height: 5' 8"
Birth Place: London, England, UK
Born: Oct. 16th, 1925
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BIOGRAPHY: British character actress, long in the United States. The daughter of an actress and the granddaughter of a high-ranking politician, Lansbury studied acting from her youth, departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy Award for her first film, Gaslight (1944). Two pictures later, she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). Now established as a supporting player of quality, she began a long career, often as "the other woman" in major productions and as the leading lady in lesser films. Her features, while not at all old-appearing, gave her an air of maturity that allowed her to pass as much older than she actually was, and she began playing mother roles, often to players of her own age, while yet in her thirties. She concentrated more and more on stage work, achieving notable success in a number of Broadway plays and musicals, winning four Tony Awards in sixteen years. Although active in television since the early 1950s, she obtained her greatest fame in the 1980s by starring in the light mystery program "Murder, She Wrote" (1984). As Jessica Fletcher, she became known and loved by millions for well over a decade. She also became known for the odd fact of almost annual Emmy Award nominations for the role without ever winning for it. An institution in American theatre and television, she is also an inspiration for the graciousness of her personality, which is often exploited and always admired.
TRIVIA:
- 11/25/75: Her mother, 'Moyna MacGill' (qv), died.
- Daughter: Deirdre Angela Shaw, born April 26, 1953, Los Angeles, California.
- Grandmother, via daughter Coral, to Australian Federal Liberal Party leader, Malcolm Turnbull.
- 1985: She accepted the Oscar for "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" on behalf of 'Peggy Ashcroft' (qv), who wasn't present at the awards ceremony.
- She was nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "Deuce".
- Cousin to Coral Lansbury, (died 4/4/1991), Rutgers University Camden Campus Dean of the Graduate School of English and mother to Australian Liberal Party leader, Malcolm Turnbull.
- She was one of the last guest stars on _"Newhart" (1982)_ (qv).
- Wearing just conventional makeup (i.e., not studio made-up to look "old"), she was most chilling and unforgettable (and convincing!) as the manipulating mother of 'Laurence Harvey (I)' (qv) in _The Manchurian Candidate (1962)_ (qv), while in real life being scarcely three years Harvey's senior.
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