Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury was a multi-award winning Irish-British and American actor whose career spanned over seventy years. Her numerous accolades were 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 known for Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Mame (1966), for which she won her first Tony Award, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The King and I, as well as in the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).

Moving into television in 1984, she achieved worldwide fame for Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history.

She also did voice work, contributing to animated films like Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Anastasia (1997).