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10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Angela Lansbury (Actress)

Angela Lansbury was an Irish-British-American actress and singer who played various roles across film, stage, and television.

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Angela Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925 in London, England. 

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Angela Lansbury mother, Moyna Macgill, was an actress and her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a politician.

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Lansbury’s father died when she was nine years old and her mother later remarried to an actor. 

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Angela Lansbury moved to the United States when she was sixteen years old to pursue an acting career.

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Angela Lansbury made her film debut in the 1944 film Gaslight.

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Lansbury’s performance in the film earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. 

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She went on to star in the films The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956), and The Diary of Anne Frank (1959). 

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Angela Lansbury is best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher on the television series Murder, She Wrote, which aired from 1984 to 1996.

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Angela Lansbury died peacefully in her sleep on 11 October 2022, in Los Angeles, California, five days shy of her 97th birthday.

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Angela Lansbury Biography 

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