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Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born October 16 , 1925 ) is an Oscar -nominated English-American Actress . EARLY LIFE Lansbury was born in London , the daughter of a Belfast -born actress, Moyna MacGill and the granddaughter of Labour politician George Lansbury . At age 14, when World War II began, she emigrated with her mother to the United States and became a Naturalised Citizen in 1951 . As a struggling young actress in Los Angeles , Lansbury worked at the Bullocks Wilshire department store. CAREER Lansbury made her Academy Award nominated film debut in 1944 as an impertinent Maid in the film '' Gaslight '' with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer . This was followed by another Oscar nomination for her role as Sibyl Vane in film adaptation of the Oscar Wilde novel '' The Picture Of Dorian Gray '' (1945). She has since enjoyed a long and varied career, mainly as a film actress, appearing in everything from '' Samson And Delilah '' (1949) to Disney 's '' Bedknobs And Broomsticks '' (1971). Lansbury was in '' The Manchurian Candidate '' (1962) as the icy, ruthless mother of a war veteran-turned- Brainwashed Communist Assassin . She won much critical praise for her chilling performance, and won a third Oscar nomination. In the film, Lansbury's son was played by Laurence Harvey , who was only three years younger than she. Lucille Ball had been considered for the role that went to Lansbury, but didn't get it. A decade later, Ball got Lansbury's title role in the film version of '' Mame '', the role Lansbury created on Broadway. Lansbury has been quoted in an interview with CNN 's Larry King as saying that her character in ''The Manchurian Candidate'' was her favorite of her many film roles. Such an evil character was unlikely to win Lansbury the Supporting Oscar over little Patty Duke 's Helen Keller in '' The Miracle Worker '', however, and Duke won the award that year. , featuring a young Angela Lansbury as Sibyl Vane.]] She played Agatha Christie 's Miss Marple in '' The Mirror Crack'd '' (1980). She then turned to character voice work in animated films like '' The Last Unicorn '' (1982), winning a great deal of praise for her affectionate turn as the singing teapot Mrs. Potts in the Disney hit '' Beauty And The Beast '' (1991). She reprised the role as Mrs. Potts in the Square-Enix /Disney video game Kingdom Hearts II in 2006, and also did character work as the Dowager Empress in the less well-received animated film '' Anastasia '' in 1997. On Broadway, Lansbury received good reviews from her very first musical outing, the short-lived 1964 '' (1974). She is a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award (1975 & 1980) for dramatic achievement in Chicago Theatre . Her English music-hall turn as the affection-starved meat-pie entrepreneuse, Mrs. Lovett, in '' earned her yet another Tony Award in 1979. She has received a Tony nomination for every lead role she has essayed on Broadway, and won each time (total of 4 times), unlike her unlucky record at the Oscars. As Jessica Fletcher in the long-running television series, '' Murder, She Wrote '' (1984 - 1996), she found her biggest success and a worldwide following. It was to be one of the longest running prime time Detective Drama series in US TV history and made her one of the highest paid actresses in the world and a record as the most nominated lead actress without a win in the prime time Emmy awards (with 12 nominations). In the early 1990s Queen Elizabeth II Of The United Kingdom awarded Angela Lansbury the CBE . She was named a Disney Legend in 1995. She received a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and Kennedy Center Honors in 2000. PRIVATE LIFE Lansbury was briefly married from 1945-1946 to American actor Richard Cromwell when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. In 1948, Lansbury remarried, to Irish-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw , who had been a former boyfriend of an older actress, Joan Crawford . Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Lansbury's career. Until Shaw's death in 2003, Lansbury enjoyed one of the longest and most prolific of show-business marriages. She is the mother of two, stepmother of one, and a grandmother several times over. Her son, Antony, was producer/director of ''Murder She Wrote'' and is today a television executive. Lansbury helped her daughter, Deirdre Angela Shaw Battarrais, to beat a Drug Addiction , and Battarrais has gone on to managing a restaurant. Lansbury was related by her half-sister Isolde's marriage to the late British actor, Sir Peter Ustinov ; the two in-laws appeared together professionally just once in 1978's '' Death On The Nile .'' Lansbury is today related—by the marriage of her nephew David Lansbury—to the American actress Ally Sheedy . She is a longtime resident of Brentwood, California and supports various philanthropic groups. She was was the Guest of Honor at the 14th annual Gala and Fundraiser on April 16 , 2005 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California -based non-profit organization offering a live-in, 12-Step Program of rehabilitation for women in need. Past Honorees of this organization have included Jamie Lee Curtis and Sir Anthony Hopkins . Lansbury had knee replacement surgery on July 14 , 2005 . {Link without Title} Lansbury also enjoys vacation time regularly at her home in County Cork, Ireland . FILMOGRAPHY
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