Acting · London, England, UK · Born October 16, 1925
Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE (October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022) was a British-American actress and singer who has appeared in theater, television, and film roles. Her career was spanned almost eight decades, much of it in the United States. Her work has received international attention. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Gaslight as a conniving maid, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Among her other films are The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) Beauty and the Beast (1991), and Anastasia (1997). She expanded her repertoire to Broadway musicals and television in the 1950s and was particularly successful in Broadway productions of Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her 12 year run as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the U.S. television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 to 1996. Her recent roles include Lady Adelaide Stitch in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee, Leona Mullen in the 2007 Broadway play Deuce, Madame Arcati in the 2009 Broadway revival of the play Blithe Spirit and Madame Armfeldt in the 2010 Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music. Respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, an Honorary Academy Award, and has been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and eighteen Emmy Awards.
MovieCommitment to Life
2023
as Self (archive footage)
MovieGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
as Angela Lansbury
MovieShow of Titles
2021
as "There's No Business Like Show Business" Performer
MovieMary Poppins Returns
2018
as Balloon Lady
MovieButtons
2018
as Rose
MovieHarold Prince: The Director's Life
2018
MovieThe Grinch
2018
as Mayor McGerkle (voice)
MovieEvery Act of Life
2018
as Self
MovieHoward
2018
as Self / Mrs. Potts (archive footage)
TVLittle Women
2017
as Aunt March
MovieMiracle on 42nd Street
2017
as Self
MovieRod Taylor: Pulling No Punches
2017
as Self
MovieWomen He's Undressed
2015
as Self
MovieDriving Miss Daisy
2015
as Daisy Werthan
MovieSix by Sondheim
2013
as Mrs. Lovett (archive footage)
MovieMr. Popper's Penguins
2011
as Mrs. Van Gundy
MovieBeyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010
as Self
To Oz! The Making of a Classic
2009
as Self / Hostess
MovieWaking Sleeping Beauty
2009
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
as Self
MovieThe Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics
2008
as Narrator
MovieHeidi 4 Paws
2008
as Grandmother (voice)
MovieRiots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
as Self
MovieElvis: #1 Hit Performances
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieElvis: The King of Rock 'n' Roll
2007
as Self (archive footage)
MovieWords and Music by Jerry Herman
2007
as Self
MoviePrivate Screenings: Angela Lansbury
2006
as Self
MovieNanny McPhee
2005
as Aunt Adelaide
MovieDisney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 2 - Enchanted Tea Party
2005
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
MovieBroadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
as Rose (segment "Gypsy") (archive footage)
TVLaw & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
as Eleanor Duvall
MovieBroadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Mame Dennis (segment "Mame")
MovieDisney Princess Sing Along Songs, Vol. 1 - Once Upon A Dream
2004
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
Queen of Diamonds
2004
as Herself
MovieAFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
as Self
MovieThe Blackwater Lightship
2004
as Dora
MovieReflections on 'Gaslight'
2003
as Self
MovieBroadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as Host / Mrs. Lovett (segment "Sweeney Todd")
MovieMurder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle
2003
as Jessica Fletcher
MovieBroadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
MovieThe Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
2003
as Self
MovieEdith Head: The Paramount Years
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Joy of Christmas with Angela Lansbury
2002
as Self
MovieThe Cockettes
2002
as Self (archive footage)
MovieDisney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
as Narrator
MovieMurder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man
2001
as Jessica Fletcher / Sarah McCullough
MovieMusic Magic: The Sherman Brothers - Bedknobs and Broomsticks
2001
as Self
MovieDisney Through The Decades
2001
MovieOn Cukor
2000
as Self
MovieSir John Mills' Moving Memories
2000
as Self (archive footage)
MovieMurder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000
as Jessica Fletcher
MovieFantasia 2000
2000
as Self - Host
TVLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
as Eleanor Duvall
MovieThe Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
1999
as Emily Pollifax
MovieForever Hollywood
1999
as Self
MovieGlorious Technicolor
1998
as Narrator (voice)
MovieAnastasia
1997
as Dowager Empress Marie (voice)
MovieBeauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
MovieMurder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
as Jessica Fletcher
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieFrank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
MovieMrs. Santa Claus
1996
as Mrs. Santa Claus
A Benefit Celebration: A Tribute to Angela Lansbury
1996
as Self
TVThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
MovieInside the Dream Factory
1995
as Self
MovieAnyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
1995
as Narrator
MovieYour Studio and You
1995
as Angela Lansbury
MovieA Tribute to Stephen Sondheim
1995
MovieShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories: The Christmas Witch
1994
as Narrator
TVTouched by an Angel
1994
as Lady Penelope Berrington
TVThe World of Hammer
1994
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThat's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
MovieJerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl
1994
as Self
TVIntimate Portrait
1993
as Self
MovieMrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
1992
as Mrs. Ada Harris
MovieMickey's Audition
1992
as Sylvia
TVShelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
as Narrator (voice)
MovieEuro Disney : L'Ouverture
1992
as Self - Chanteuse
MovieThe Grand Opening of Euro Disneyland
1992
as Self - Performer
MovieBeauty and the Beast
1991
as Mrs. Potts (voice)
MovieThe Trouble With Agatha Christie
1991
as Self - Actress
MovieThe Love She Sought
1990
as Agatha McGee
MovieThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990
as Self - Host
MovieThe Shell Seekers
1989
as Penelope Keeling
MovieShootdown
1988
as Nan Moore
MovieAngela Lansbury's Positive Moves
1988
as Herself
MovieRage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues
1986
as Marchesa Allabrandi
MovieThe Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
1986
as Self
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Jessica Fletcher
MovieThe Company of Wolves
1984
as Granny
TVThe First Olympics: Athens 1896
1984
as Alice Garrett
TVLace
1984
as Aunt Hortense Boutin
MovieThe Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
as Amanda Fenwick
MovieA Talent for Murder
1983
as Ann Royce McClain
MovieThe Pirates of Penzance
1983
as Ruth
MovieThe Last Unicorn
1982
as Mommy Fortuna (voice)
TVLittle Gloria... Happy at Last
1982
as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
MovieSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1982
as Nellie Lovett
TVMagnum, P.I.
1980
as Jessica Fletcher
MovieThe Mirror Crack'd
1980
as Miss Marple
MovieThe Lady Vanishes
1979
as Miss Froy
TVThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978
as Self
MovieDeath on the Nile
1978
as Salome Otterbourne
MovieThe First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
1975
as Sister Theresa / Narrator (voice)
MovieThat's Entertainment!
1974
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieSondheim: A Musical Tribute
1973
TVThe Julie Andrews Hour
1972
as Self
Film '72
1971
as Self
MovieBedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
as Miss Price
TVGreat Performances
1971
as Self
MovieSomething for Everyone
1970
as Countess Herthe von Ornstein
TVThe Dick Cavett Show
1968
as Self - Guest
TVOmnibus
1967
MovieMister Buddwing
1966
as Gloria
MovieHarlow
1965
as Mama Jean Bello
MovieThe Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as Lady Blystone
MovieThe Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
as Claudia
MovieDear Heart
1965
as Phyllis
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Elfie van Donck
MovieThe World of Henry Orient
1964
as Isabel Boyd
TVThe Danny Kaye Show
1963
as Self
MovieIn the Cool of the Day
1963
as Sybil Logan
MovieThe Manchurian Candidate
1962
as Mrs. Iselin
TVThe Merv Griffin Show
1962
as Self
MovieAll Fall Down
1962
as Annabell Willart
MovieBlue Hawaii
1961
as Sarah Lee Gates
MovieThe Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
as Mavis Pruitt
MovieA Breath of Scandal
1960
as Countess Lina
MovieSummer of the Seventeenth Doll
1959
as Pearl
MovieThe Reluctant Debutante
1958
as Mabel Claremont
MovieThe Long, Hot Summer
1958
as Minnie Littlejohn
MovieClaire
1956
as Vera Wayne
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self - Host / Performer
MoviePlease Murder Me
1956
as Myra Leeds
MovieThe Court Jester
1955
as Princess Gwendolyn
MovieA Lawless Street
1955
as Tally Dickenson
TVScreen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Vera Wayne
MovieThe Purple Mask
1955
as Madame Valentine
MovieA Life at Stake
1955
as Doris Hillman
Stage 7
1955
as Vanessa Peters
TVClimax!
1954
as Justina Marshall
The George Gobel Show
1954
as Self
TVStudio 57
1954
TVRevlon Mirror Theatre
1953
MovieRemains to Be Seen
1953
as Valeska Chauvel
TVThe Oscars
1953
as Self
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Daphne Rutledge
TVThe Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Lola Walker
TVFour Star Playhouse
1952
as Joan Robinson
MovieMutiny
1952
as Leslie Waldridge
TVToday
1952
as Self
TVHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
as Penelope Keeling
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Florie Vandrop
MovieKind Lady
1951
as Mrs. Edwards
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Leslie
TVYour Show of Shows
1950
TVWhat's My Line?
1950
as Self - Mystery Guest
TVRobert Montgomery Presents
1950
as Christine Manson
MovieSamson and Delilah
1949
as Semadar
MovieThe Red Danube
1949
as Audrey Quail
TVThe Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
MovieThe Three Musketeers
1948
as Queen Ann
MovieState of the Union
1948
as Kay Thorndyke
MovieTenth Avenue Angel
1948
as Susan Bratten
MovieIf Winter Comes
1947
as Mabel Sabre
MovieThe Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947
as Clotilde de Marelle
MovieTill the Clouds Roll By
1946
as London Specialty
MovieThe Hoodlum Saint
1946
as Dusty Millard
MovieThe Harvey Girls
1946
as Em
MovieThe Picture of Dorian Gray
1945
as Sibyl Vane
MovieNational Velvet
1945
as Edwina Brown
MovieGaslight
1944
as Nancy
TVGolden Globe Awards
1944
as Self - Nominee
