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Angela Lansbury

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Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, DBE (English: Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury, October 16, 1925 - October 11, 2022), a British-Irish-American triple national actor and singer, has enjoyed great success in television, film, and stage. She has won a total of five Tony Awards (four times winning the title of Lead Actress in a Musical, which is still unmatched), six Golden Globe Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and has been nominated for three Oscar Awards, eighteen Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award. She won an Oscar Honorary Award in 2013, and was awarded the Commander of the Order of the Order by the Queen in 2014, becoming a Dame. She is best remembered for her film roles in Gaslight (1944), Quantico (1962), and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); musical theater credits in Mame (1966), Gypsy (1975), and Sweeney Todd (1979); and her voice-over roles as Mrs. Tea Pot in Beauty and the Beast (1991), in the episode Beauty and the Beast is her masterpiece.

Category
Film & TV
Nationality
U.K.
Born
1925-10-16
Died
2022-10-11
Wikidata
Q206856
Occupations voice actorsingerfilm producerwritercharacter actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actormovie actortelevision produceractormusician
Aliases Angela Brigid LansburyAngela LansburyDame Angela Brigid LansburyAngela LansburyAngela LansburyAngela LansburyAngela LansburyAngela Lansbury

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