Dame Angela Lansbury: “Mrs. Potts” from “Beauty and the Beast”
At the age of 96
Dame Angela Lansbury ( Dame Angela Lansbury ), the legendary woman of cinema and art, has passed away at the age of 96. According to a press release posted on broadwayworld.com , Lansbury, who was beloved by audiences and critics for more than 75 years, died five days before her 97th birthday .
Her family’s official statement reads:
The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday 11 October 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday.
She was known for many films and other projects, as she had a steady presence on Broadway. In fact, he has been on television as a writer, wrote the classic ” Murder, She Wrote ” and starred in many films, including dramas and cartoons.
Dame Angela Lansbury was born on October 16, 1925 and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress three times, for the films ” Nightmare “, ” The Picture of Dorian Gray ” and ” The Manchurian Man “. In November 2013 she received an Honorary Oscar for her contribution to the 7th art.
He was born in 1925 in London and was the offspring of a middle-class family. She was the daughter of Moina McGill and English politician Edgar Lansbury. In 1940, in order to avoid the war, he moved to the USA, where he studied acting in New York. In 1942 she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and took on her first role in George Cukor’s Gaslight.
Her performance in the film, playing Ingrid Bergman’s unscrupulous maid, was praised by critics and earned her her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
She continued to appear in MGM films, but in supporting roles, and her contract expired in 1952. From then on, her career flourished in both film and theater. Her performance in the film Manchurian Man was described as one of the best of her career, while her involvement in the musical established her during the mid-1960s.
The 1970s found her working mostly in the theater, mainly performing lead roles in musicals such as: ” The King and I “. In the 1980s, she transitioned to television, starring in the series The Detective Writer , which ran for 12 years and earned her 18 Emmy Award nominations.
In 1991, she lent her voice to the Disney film ” Beauty and the Beast ” and since then she had made few film appearances. She was married twice, the first to actor Richard Cromwell, where their marriage lasted a year, and the second to producer Peter Shaw, with whom she remained married until his death in 2003.
Other films he participated in were: National Velvet, Samson and Delilah, The Court Jester, Lusts in a Summer Capsule ” (The Long, Hot Summer), “ Around Me Everything Fell Down! ” (All Fall Down), “ The Greatest Story Ever Told”, “ Death on the Nile ”.
