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Angela Brigid Lansbury, Order of the British Empire|CBE (born October 16, 1925) is an England|English actress, notable for her work in Film|cinema, theatre and television. Highly respected for her versatility, she has won four Tony Awards and six Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globes, and has been nominated for three Academy Award|Oscars and 18 Emmy Awards.
More recently she is known for her starring role as Jessica Fletcher on the Television in the United States|American television series ''Murder, She Wrote'', but her career began in the 1940s. Among her notable film roles are Mrs. Iselin in ''The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)|The Manchurian Candidate'', for which she received an Academy Award nomination, and she was successful in such Broadway theatre|Broadway musicals as ''Mame'', ''Gypsy: A Musical Fable|Gypsy'', and ''Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street|Sweeney Todd''.
Early life
Born in Poplar, London, England,<ref>[http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/data/discover/data/Poplar/index.cfm Discover Tower Hamlets - Area guides - Poplar<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Lansbury was the daughter of Belfast-born actress Moyna MacGill and Edgar Lansbury, a prominent businessman, and the granddaughter of the former Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party leader George Lansbury. She is a cousin of the English animator and puppeteer Oliver Postgate (... read all