Star of stage and screen earned three Oscar nominations and multiple Tony Awards.
Angela Lansbury, the London-born star of stage, film and TV who earned three Oscar nominations and will perhaps be best remembered for her long-running role in TV hit Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.
Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925, in central London to Irish actor Moyna Macgill and MP Edgar Lansbury, whose father George Lansbury led the Labour Party in the 1930s.
She was nine when her father died. Aged 14 Lansbury, her mother and two siblings were evacuated from the Blitz. The family sailed from Liverpool to New York,...
Angela Lansbury, the London-born star of stage, film and TV who earned three Oscar nominations and will perhaps be best remembered for her long-running role in TV hit Murder, She Wrote, has died. She was 96.
Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925, in central London to Irish actor Moyna Macgill and MP Edgar Lansbury, whose father George Lansbury led the Labour Party in the 1930s.
She was nine when her father died. Aged 14 Lansbury, her mother and two siblings were evacuated from the Blitz. The family sailed from Liverpool to New York,...
- 10/11/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
After 40 years, the British-born actress who conquered Hollywood and starred in TV's Murder, She Wrote is back on the West End stage. As she approaches her 90s, she's in her theatrical prime
In the play Blithe Spirit, the wildly eccentric and chaotic clairvoyant Madame Arcati, Noël Coward's most colourful creation, announces that "time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked".
No aphorism has ever applied less than this does to the actress now about to don the headscarves and bangles to play Arcati in the West End at the age of 88. Dame Angela Lansbury, ennobled earlier this month, has defied the laws of nature by becoming more theatrically prolific as her years have advanced. In 2007, she was Tony award-nominated for her role in a new Terrence McNally play, Deuce, on Broadway; in 2010, she was nominated again for a revival of Sondheim's A Little Night Music; and then,...
In the play Blithe Spirit, the wildly eccentric and chaotic clairvoyant Madame Arcati, Noël Coward's most colourful creation, announces that "time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked".
No aphorism has ever applied less than this does to the actress now about to don the headscarves and bangles to play Arcati in the West End at the age of 88. Dame Angela Lansbury, ennobled earlier this month, has defied the laws of nature by becoming more theatrically prolific as her years have advanced. In 2007, she was Tony award-nominated for her role in a new Terrence McNally play, Deuce, on Broadway; in 2010, she was nominated again for a revival of Sondheim's A Little Night Music; and then,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Visiting the UK in tribute to her Labour leader grandfather, the Murder, She Wrote star reveals hope of capping her Hollywood career by appearing on the West End stage her mother once performed on
One of Britain's brightest and most durable stars of stage and screen, Angela Lansbury, is hoping to round off her Hollywood and Broadway career with a theatrical run on the West End stage where her mother performed.
"I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played," she said. "It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."
Lansbury, 85, is due to return to her native Britain next week to celebrate the life of her grandfather, George Lansbury, a founder of the Labour party. On the eve of her visit, she talked to the Observer about her English heritage,...
One of Britain's brightest and most durable stars of stage and screen, Angela Lansbury, is hoping to round off her Hollywood and Broadway career with a theatrical run on the West End stage where her mother performed.
"I really would love to play the Theatre Royal Haymarket, because that is where my mother played," she said. "It nearly happened last year, and if that venue could be guaranteed I would come. I only want someone to make the offer."
Lansbury, 85, is due to return to her native Britain next week to celebrate the life of her grandfather, George Lansbury, a founder of the Labour party. On the eve of her visit, she talked to the Observer about her English heritage,...
- 4/30/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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