Angela Lansbury

British-American-Irish actress and singer (1925–2022)

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Lived 1925–2022, aged 97United Kingdom

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Era
1925–2022
Aged 97
Known for
Beauty and the Beast
1991

Summary

Updated 2026-08-27

She played a mystery writer who solved murders for twelve seasons on American television, became the voice of a singing teapot for Disney, and collected six Tony Awards across five decades on Broadway — but spent her first Hollywood years typecast as women far older than she was.

Biography

About

Born in central London in 1925 to an Irish actress mother and English politician father, Lansbury fled the Blitz for the United States in 1940 and landed at MGM two years later. Her early film work — Gaslight, The Picture of Dorian Gray — earned Oscar nominations, but the studio kept her in minor roles, and she remained B-list until The Manchurian Candidate in 1962 proved what she could carry. Broadway's Mame in 1966 brought her first Tony and real stardom. After personal troubles, she moved to County Cork in 1970, then spent the decade between stage musicals (Gypsy, Sweeney Todd) and Bedknobs…

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