Angela Lansbury

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1925 age 0

   Born

2. 1944 age 19

   CreditGaslight

   CreditNational Velvet

3. 1962 age 37

   CreditThe Manchurian Candidate

4. 1965 age 40

   CreditThe Greatest Story Ever Told

5. 1971 age 46

   CreditBedknobs and Broomsticks

6. 1978 age 53

   CreditDeath on the Nile

7. 1999 age 74

   CreditFantasia 2000

8. 2002 age 77

   CreditAbout Schmidt

9. 2005 age 80

   CreditNanny McPhee

10. 2011 age 86

    CreditMr. Popper's Penguins

11. 2018 age 93

    CreditMary Poppins Returns

12. 2022 age 96

    Died

    CreditGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

• RKRolfe Kent2 titles
• CFColin Firth2 titles
• ROReginald Owen2 titles
• CDCyril Delevanti2 titles
• LCLen Cariou2 titles
• LCLeonard Carey2 titles
• CGCedric Gibbons2 titles
• RMRoddy McDowall2 titles
• MAMichael Ansara2 titles
• ABArthur Blake2 titles

• Spouse

  • PSPeter Shaw
  • RCRichard Cromwell

• Parents

  • MMMoyna Macgill

• Children

  • ASAnthony Shaw

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• I'm eternally grateful for the Irish side of me. That's where I got my sense of comedy and whimsy. As for the English half — that's my reserved side ... But put me onstage, and the Irish comes out. The combination makes a good mix for acting.

  Angela Lansbury, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was a wife and a mother, and I was completely fulfilled. But my husband recognised the signals in me which said "I've been doing enough gardening, I've cooked enough good dinners, I've sat around the house and mooned about what more interior decoration I can get my fingers into." It's a curious thing with actors and actresses, but suddenly the alarm goes off. My husband is a very sensitive person to my moods and he recognised the fact that I had to get on with something. Mame came along out of the blue just at this time. Now isn't that a miracle?

  Angela Lansbury, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I'd like to be remembered as somebody who entertained — who took one out of oneself — for a few minutes, a few hours — transported you into a different venue — gave you relief, gave you entertainment, and gave you joy and laughter, and tears — all those things. I would like to be remembered as somebody who was — capable of doing that.

  Angela Lansbury, CC BY-SA 4.0

• What I experienced at drama school was the fun and the excitement of being given a part. And when you're a student and you are given a role, something is assigned to you. And you're going to do a little scene at the end of the term. That's absolutely the most thrilling thing in the world. So you're doing it, in other words.

  Angela Lansbury, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My first role was to play Audrey in As You Like It, which is a very comic part. And Touchstone and Audrey have a very funny scene together. And during that scene, I suddenly got this - the feel and the smell of being able to make an effect by the way I played the role, the way I comported myself. All of the physical aspects of acting suddenly came to me. And I got a laugh, you know, the first time I did it. Well, this was a tremendous kind of boost to my self-esteem.

  Angela Lansbury, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I went very fast in drama school and ended up working in one of the senior plays. Even just in my first year, I was assigned a role of a lady in waiting in Mary Of Scotland. So they obviously knew that this young person had something. She had a talent. And I sort of felt that, although I didn't get big-headed about it, but I felt it — gave me tremendous confidence.

  Angela Lansbury, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Languages

English

Years active

1944–2022

Instruments

voice

Education

South Hampstead High School, Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art