October 16: Happy Birthday Angela Lansbury

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Dame Angela Lansbury is turning 91 today. Space permits no more than hitting some of the high points of her seven-decade career. She made her film debut while still a teenager, receiving her first of three Best Supporting Actress nominations for Gaslight. Her second Oscar nomination came a year later; interestingly, given another of today’s birthdays, it was for The Picture of Dorian Gray. Her third Oscar nomination, and one of her finest performances ever, was as the mother of Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) in The Manchurian Candidate:


Lansbury’s television career has brought her a staggering 18 Emmy nominations (although no wins), including 12 in a row for every single season of Murder, She Wrote, for which she did win four Golden Globes for Best Actress in a TV Series—Drama. As a stage performer, she has won five Tony Awards. Her first was for the title character in the musical Mame in 1966; her most recent was in 2009 for playing Madame Arcati in a revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.

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Angie Lansbury would have turned 100 today

Vogue article.

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Angie Lansbury would have turned 100 today

Vogue article.

Angela Lansbury was born 100 years ago today

The Oscar-winning Murder, She Wrote star, who died at age 96 in 2022, was born on Oct. 16, 1925. In a Los Angeles Times piece marking Lansbury’s 100th birthday, Lily E. Hirsch says we still have a lot to learn from the acting icon. “When you think of role models, there are probably a number of women who come to mind before Angela Lansbury: women who boldly and sometimes loudly shook things up like Rosie the Riveter, Riot Grrrl rebels, and RBG,” says Hirsch. “Maybe even Miss Piggy, though that could just be me. In contrast, Lansbury, who died in 2022, is associated with cozy Cabot Cove (the setting of her long-running series “Murder, She Wrote”) and tea time as Disney’s Mrs. Potts. But don’t be fooled! In her life and many memorable roles, Lansbury had (and still has) a lot to say about going after what you want as a woman, avoiding stereotypes and living a full life at any age.”