Angela Lansbury

I genuinely think Angela Lansbury is one of the most quietly towering careers in entertainment history — and people still don't give her enough credit for that. She started in Hollywood as a teenager in the 1940s, racked up Oscar nominations before she was old enough to drink, then reinvented herself on Broadway and won four Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical across three different decades. Four. And just when you thought she'd settled into graceful legend status, she became Mrs. Potts and gave us "Beauty and the Beast" in a voice so warm it could melt anyone. Ninety-six years of life, eighty years of working — this woman was simply unstoppable, and she made it look effortless every single time.

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Name (English)

Angela Lansbury

Name (Japanese)

アンジェラ・ランズベリー

Reading

あんじぇら・らんずべりー

Born

October 16, 1925 – October 11, 2022

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Ox

Origin

St Pancras, United Kingdom

Occupation

voice actor / singer / film producer / writer / character actor

High school

South Hampstead High School

Awards & achievements

• Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• National Medal of Arts
• Laurence Olivier Awards
• 2009 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
• 1966 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
• 1969 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
• 1975 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
• 1979 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

• Official sitehttp://www.angelalansbury.net
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela%20Lansbury
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%99%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q206856

Tags

• voice actor
• singer
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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