| Angela Lansbury | |
|---|---|
 Lansbury at the 2013 Governors Awards | |
| 3 Nominations / 1 Win | |
| Role | Actress |
| Born | October 16, 1925 |
| Regent's Park, England, UK | |
| Died | October 11, 2022 |
| Los Angeles, California, USA | |
Angela Lansbury was a British actress who has appeared in theatre, television, and films. Her career has spanned seven decades and her work has attracted international attention. she was best known for her roll as Jessica Fletcher in the award winning television series, "Murder, She Wrote". In 1940, she moved to New York City in the United States, where she studied acting. Proceeding to Hollywood, Los Angeles in 1942, she signed to MGM and got her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), earning two Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe Award. She appeared in eleven further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952 she began supplementing her cinematic work with theatrical appearances. Relocating from California to County Cork, Ireland in 1970, she continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade. Moving to television, in 1984 Lansbury achieved widespread fame as the fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American murder mystery series "Murder, She Wrote", which ran for twelve seasons until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running detective drama series in television history. She assumed ownership of the series and was executive producer for the final four seasons. She also moved into voice work, thereby contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast (1991). Since then, she has toured prolifically in a variety of international productions, and continued to make occasional film appearances. Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and various Primetime Emmy Awards on eighteen occasions. On November 16, 2013, Lansbury received an Honorary Oscar after seventy years' work in the motion picture industry. She passed away in her home on October 11, 2022.
Honorary Awards[]
- 86th Academy Awards, 2013
- Honorary Award for being an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors.
Nominations[]
- 17th Academy Awards, 1944
- Best Supporting Actress — Gaslight
- 18th Academy Awards, 1945
- Best Supporting Actress — The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 35th Academy Awards, 1962
- Best Supporting Actress — The Manchurian Candidate
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