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Also Known As	Angela Brigid Lansbury
Born	October 16, 1925 • London • England
Died	October 11, 2022 (aged 96) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors	Tony Awards • Kennedy Center Honors (2000) • Honorary Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (2014) • Golden Globe Award (1992): Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama • Golden Globe Award (1990): Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama • Golden Globe Award (1987): Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama • Golden Globe Award (1985): Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama • Golden Globe Award (1963): Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture • Golden Globe Award (1946): Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture • Television Academy Hall of Fame (inducted 1996) • Tony Award (2009): Best Featured Actress in a Play • Tony Award (1979): Best Actress in a Musical • Tony Award (1975): Best Actress in a Musical • Tony Award (1969): Best Actress in a Musical • Tony Award (1966): Best Actress in a Musical
Married To	Richard Cromwell (1945–1946) • Peter Shaw (1949–2003 [his death])
Movies/Tv Shows (Acted In)	"State of the Union" (1948) • "The Revlon Mirror Theater" (1953) • "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" (1953) • "Touched by an Angel" (2002) • "Anastasia" (1997) • "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (1965) • "Four Star Playhouse" (1954–1955) • "Blue Hawaii" (1961) • "Mary Poppins Returns" (2018) • "The Pirates of Penzance" (1983) • "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1960) • "Lace" (1984) • "Buttons" (2018) • "Mister Buddwing" (1966) • "The Long, Hot Summer" (1958) • "A Breath of Scandal" (1960) • "Front Row Center" (1956) • "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) • "The Eleventh Hour" (1963) • "Gaslight" (1944) • "The Grinch" (2018) • "Lux Video Theatre" (1950–1954) • "Robert Montgomery Presents" (1950–1953) • "If Winter Comes" (1947) • "National Velvet" (1944) • "Mutiny" (1952) • "Great Performances" (2014) • "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami" (1947) • "Stage 7" (1955) • "Little Women" (2017) • "All Fall Down" (1962) • "Tenth Avenue Angel" (1948) • "Little Gloria... Happy at Last" (1982) • "Something for Everyone" (1970) • "The Three Musketeers" (1948) • "The Harvey Girls" (1946) • "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971) • "The Company of Wolves" (1984) • "Star Time Playhouse" (1955) • "The Court Jester" (1955) • "Samson and Delilah" (1949) • "The Reluctant Debutante" (1958) • "The First Olympics: Athens 1896" (1984) • "Remains to Be Seen" (1953) • "The Mirror Crack'd" (1980) • "Murder, She Wrote" (1984–1996) • "Harlow" (1965) • "Till the Clouds Roll By" (1946) • "Please Murder Me!" (1956) • "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders" (1965) • "Chevron Hall of Stars" (1956) • "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) • "In the Cool of the Day" (1963) • "Death on the Nile" (1978) • "Nanny McPhee" (2005) • "Heidi 4 Paws" (2009) • "Magnum, P.I." (1986) • "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (2005) • "The Trials of O'Brien" (1965) • "Dear Heart" (1964) • "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (2005) • "A Lawless Street" (1955) • "The Star and the Story" (1955–1956) • "Playhouse 90" (1958–1959) • "The Lady Vanishes" (1979) • "Fireside Theatre" (1955) • "Screen Directors Playhouse" (1956) • "The Purple Mask" (1955) • "General Electric Theater" (1954) • "The Ford Television Theatre" (1953) • "Kind Lady" (1951) • "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945) • "A Life at Stake" (1955) • "Celebrity Playhouse" (1955–1956) • "Undercurrent" (1957) • "Mr. Popper's Penguins" (2011) • "Studio 57" (1956) • "The Hoodlum Saint" (1946) • "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll" (1959) • "The Red Danube" (1949) • "The World of Henry Orient" (1964) • "The Last Unicorn" (1982) • "Beauty and the Beast" (1991) • "Climax!" (1956–1957)

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Richard Cromwell (1945–1946), Peter Shaw (1949–2003 [his death])

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Angela Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925.

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Angela Lansbury was born in London, England, United Kingdom.

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