Lansbury, Angela

Lansbury, Angela	Gender: F
Birthname	Angela Brigid Lansbury
born on	16 October 1925 at 00:45 (= 12:45 AM )
Place	London, England, 51n30, 0w10
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
	Rodden Rating A
	Collector: Rodden
Astrology data	22°08' 01°29 Asc. 21°29'

Angela Lansbury
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Angela Lansbury

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British-American-Irish actress who played many theatre, television, and film roles. Her career spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work received much international attention. At the time of her death she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

She was the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and the Academy Honorary Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards, eighteen Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award.

Lansbury was said to be as gracious personally as she was on camera. She achieved stardom in the '60s, first as a Broadway musical star in Mame then, from 1984 to 1996, as Jessica Fletcher in the popular hit TV series, Murder She Wrote.

Lansbury was the daughter of a lumber merchant and a noted stage actress, Irish beauty Moyna MacGill, Lansbury's dad passed away when she was nine. It was her grandfather who was a noted public figure, a Labour Party leader. Her sister Isolde married Peter Ustinov. Her mother took her and her twin brothers to the U.S. during wartime, in 1940. The family was always close and mutually supportive.

Lansbury's film debut as a cockney maid in Gaslight in 1944 brought in her first of three Oscar nominations, along with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Her starring role in the Broadway musical Mame (1966) won four Tony Awards and established her as a gay icon. She did voice-over work for the Disney studio in a main screen production and the ensuing video series releases.

Lansbury made an early marriage at 20 for nine months to Richard Cromwell, who was gay and trying to convince himself that it was not so. She then settled into a productive and happy enduring marriage to studio executive Peter Shaw on 12 August 1949 in London; they had three children, a son from his earlier marriage and a son and daughter born to Lansbury. They commuted between a home in Los Angeles and an apartment in New York.

While her kids were in their early teens, Lansbury had a problem common to many parents with her kids getting into hard drugs. It seemed an appropriate move in 1970 after a firestorm destroyed her Malibu house, that she and Peter move the family to Ireland. They commuted for the next ten years and after the great popularity of Murder,, the family continued to spend two months a year in Europe.

Lansbury suffered with debilitating arthritis for many years. Her second hip replacement was done in May 1994 when she had her left hip replaced by surgeon Dr. John Moreland who did the surgery also for Liz Taylor. She was up and about in just two weeks following surgery, attending a gala at Jimmy's Restaurant in Beverly Hills.

She was widowed when Peter Shaw died of coronary arrest on 29 January 2003. She and the gracious theater agent were married for 53 years, from 1949 to 2003.

In the early morning of 11 October 2022, Lansbury died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 96 in her Los Angeles home.

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Relationships

friend relationship with Arthur, Bea (born 13 May 1922)

spouse relationship with Cromwell, Richard (1910) (born 8 January 1910). Notes: Married 1945-1946

sibling relationship with Lansbury, Bruce (born 12 January 1930)

sibling relationship with Lansbury, Edgar (born 12 January 1930)

compare to chart of Harris, Julie (born 2 December 1925). Notes: Winners of 5 Tony Awards each

role played of/by Anne, Queen of France (born 22 September 1601 (greg.)). Notes: 1948 film "The Three Musketeers"

role played of/by Lee, Gypsy Rose (born 9 February 1914). Notes: 1973-1975 musical "Gypsy"

role played of/by Maria Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (born 26 November 1847). Notes: 1997 animated film "Anastasia"

Events

Relationship : Marriage 27 September 1945 (Richard Cromwell)
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Relationship : Divorce dates 1946 (Richard Cromwell)

Relationship : Marriage 12 August 1949 (Peter Shaw)
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Social : Acquired Citizenship 1951 (USA)

Death of Mate 29 January 2003 (Peter Shaw)
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Death, Cause unspecified 11 October 2022 (Age 96)
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Source Notes

Karen Christino quotes her in AFA DX No.88.

Biography: Martin Gottfried, "Balancing Act, the Authorized Biography of Angela Lansbury," Little-Brown, 1999.

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