Angela Brigid Lansbury, British by birth, is a theater actor and singer. She has also appeared in television and films. Lansbury has a net worth of $70 million.

Throughout her eight-decade career, she has won five Tony awards. Her first performance was in the 1944 classic Gaslight which won her a nomination for the Oscars in the Best Supporting Actress category. She was merely 18 year old then. She was nominated again for her role in the movie “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. Over a long career, Angela has worked on movies like All Fall Down, The Manchurian Candidate, Something for Everyone, Death on the Nile, The Mirror Crack'd, Anastasia, and many others. She has been the Miss Marple in many Agatha Christie movies.

Lansbury was a huge success in Broadway musicals as well. She is well known for Gypsy, Mame, and Sweeny Todd. She is the best known for her role in the television series Murder which was aired for almost twelve years.

She was born in London, England on October 16, 1925. Deanna Durbin influenced her a lot. She has appeared in the 1957 play Hotel Paradiso. In the mid 1970s she portrayed the character of Gertrude from Hamlet in the Royal National Theatre, London.

After staying away from the movies for some time, Lansbury made her comeback with the 1978 film “Death on the Nile” and in the 1978 classic “The Mirror Crack’d”. She started doing voice work since then. She is also noted for her appearance in the 1991 Disney production “Beauty and the Beast”. She was Mrs. Teapot. That song fetched her Oscar, a Golden Globe and a Grammy. In 1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the US.

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