The German blitz during World War II, the family came to New York in 1940 and Her mother made sure she and her three siblings had
Parents divorced, and Angela was 9 when her stepfather died from cancer. Herįather, Edgar, was a businessman, and her mother was a stage and film actress George Lansbury, became leader of England’s Labour Party in the 1930s. Lansbury’s final competitive win - for best featured actress in a play - wasįor “Blithe Spirit,” a 2009 revival of the Noel Coward comedy in which sheīrigid Lansbury was born in London on Oct. Musical that allowed her to reinvent with nuance and subtlety a part that hadĪll-but-been defined for years by the Broadway belter Ethel Merman. Lansbury garnered a Tony as a London piebaker who becomes anĬollected a Tony for her starring role in the 1969 Herman musical andĪnti-capitalist satire “Dear World.” As the forceful stage mother Mama Rose, she wonĪgain for “Gypsy,” a 1974 revival of the Sondheim-Jule Styne-Arthur Laurents Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” (1979), a brooding and dissonant “musical Lansbury with the showstopper “It’s Today.” The show brimmed with chorus boys andįlamboyant costumes and provided Ms. Her performance as a bohemian socialite caring for her orphaned nephew in Jerry Lansbury received six Tony Awards, including four for bestĪctress in a musical and one for lifetime achievement. Most people think I’m 65 years old,” she quipped at 41 - she turned to theaterīroadway, Ms. Of playing unsympathetic or over-the-hill women - “I’ve played so many old hags in which she revealed herself as an artist of immense range and power. Two earlier and distinct phases of her career - on-screen and then on Broadway Yet over seven decades in show business, she had Potts inĬherished performances may have suggested that Ms. Lansbury was best remembered as the voice of Mrs. Manchurian Candidate,” became a luminary of Broadway musical theater, and starredįor 12 years as a warmhearted crime writer and sleuth in the TV series “Murder, The English-born actress who excelled as the world’s most evil mother in “The Angela Lansbury, Broadway luminary and ‘Murder, She Wrote’ star,
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