Friday, March 27, 2009

how old is angela lansbury age

Angela Brigid Lansbury is 83 years old now. She was born 16 October 1925. Angela Lansbury is a British actress and singer whose career has spanned seven decades. Her first film appearance was in Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and she expanded her repertoire to Broadway and television in the 1950s. Highly respected for her versatility, Lansbury has won four Tony Awards and six Golden Globes, and has been nominated for eighteen Emmys.
Angela Lansbury Interview
Angela Lansbury talks about Gaslight (her 1st movie)

Angela Landsbury more popular films include The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) and Beauty and the Beast (1991) and she was successful in such Broadway musicals as Gypsy, Mame and Sweeney Todd. Lansbury is more recently known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher on the American television series Murder, She Wrote, in which she starred from 1984 until 1996.
In 1945, Lansbury married American actor Richard Cromwell when he was 35 and she was 19. Unbeknownst to her, Cromwell was bisexual, and the marriage dissolved after a year, but the two remained friends.
In 1949, Lansbury married British-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw, who was a former boyfriend of Joan Crawford. Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Lansbury's career. Until his death in January 2003, they enjoyed one of the longest show-business marriages on record.
Beauty and the Beast: Angela Lansbury

Lansbury is the mother of two, stepmother of one, and a grandmother several times over. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Lansbury revealed a firestorm that destroyed the family's Malibu home in September 1970 was a blessing in disguise, as it prompted a move to a rural area of County Cork in Ireland, where her children were separated from the hard drugs with which they had been experimenting. Her son Anthony Shaw, after a brief fling with acting, became producer/director of Murder, She Wrote and presently is a television executive and director. Her only daughter Deirdre and son-in-law, a chef, are restaurateurs in West Los Angeles.
Lansbury was related to the late Sir Peter Ustinov by her half-sister Isolde's marriage to the British actor (they divorced in 1946). The two former in-laws appeared together professionally just once, in 1978's Death on the Nile. Lansbury is related by marriage to actress Ally Sheedy, wife of her nephew David Lansbury. Both her brothers, twins Edgar and Bruce, are successful theater producers (Edgar Lansbury was instrumental in bringing Godspell to Broadway, and Bruce Lansbury was also a television producer, notably for shows like Mission: Impossible).
She had knee replacement surgery on 14 July 2005.
Lansbury was a long-time resident of Brentwood, California, and supported various philanthropic groups in Southern California. In 2006, Lansbury moved to New York City, purchasing a condominium at a reported cost of $2 million. The following year she returned to Broadway in Deuce.
Lansbury's papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
In the early 1990s, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom appointed her a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She was named a Disney Legend in 1995. She received a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, Kennedy Center Honors in 2000, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
A Little Priest - Angela Lansbury & Len Cariou (July 2005)

She has received these additional honors and recognition:
the New Dramatists Lifetime Achievement Award on May 16, 2000.
the Acting Company's First Lifetime Achievement Award on November 11, 2002.
the Actor's Fund of America Lifetime Achievement on October 30, 2004.
the degree Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from the University of Miami on May 9, 2008. She was also the guest speaker at the commencement ceremony. bio info (c) wikipedia.org
Angela Lansbury Filmography :
1944 Gaslight
1944 National Velvet
1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray
1946 The Harvey Girls
1946 The Hoodlum Saint
1946 Till the Clouds Roll By
1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
1947 If Winter Comes
1948 State of the Union
1948 The Three Musketeers
1948 Tenth Avenue Angel
1949 The Red Danube
1949 Samson and Delilah
1951 Kind Lady
1952 Mutiny
1953 Remains to Be Seen
1954 A Life at Stake
1955 The Purple Mask
1955 A Lawless Street
1956 The Court Jester
1956 Please Murder Me
1958 The Long, Hot Summer
1958 The Reluctant Debutante
1959 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1960 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 A Breath of Scandal
1961 Blue Hawaii
1962 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962 All Fall Down
1962 The Manchurian Candidate
1963 In the Cool of the Day
1964 The World of Henry Orient
1964 Dear Heart
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965 Harlow
1966 Mister Buddwing
1970 Something for Everyone
1971 Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1978 Death on the Nile
1979 The Lady Vanishes
1980 The Mirror Crack'd
1982 The Last Unicorn
1983 The Pirates of Penzance
1984 Ingrid
1984 The Company of Wolves
1991 Beauty and the Beast
1997 Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
1997 Anastasia
1999 Fantasia 2000
2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2005 Nanny McPhee