Interesting facts about Angela Lansbury

  • Angela Lansbury was born on Friday, October 16, 1925 in London, UK.
  • Angela Lansbury is a famous actress, producer and writer.
  • Angela Lansbury is best known as a 3 times Oscar nominated actress and for the others 20 trophies and awards she managed to win.
  • Angela Lansbury played in many movies and some of the most important are The Love She Sought, Magnum PI, Beauty and the Beast, Shootdown and Murder, among many others.
  • Height: 5' 8"
  • Blue eyes and blonde hair.
  • Her performance as Mrs. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is ranked #91 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
  • Angela is a Libra.
  • 2000: She was the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Center Honors.
  • In 1945, Angela Lansbury married American actor Richard Cromwell when he was 35 and she was 19. Unbeknownst to her, Cromwell was bisexual (some sources suggest he was gay), and the marriage dissolved after a year, but the two remained friends.
  • Was offered the role of "Nurse Ratchet" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) but turned it down because she didn't think she could handle the role.
  • In 1949, Angela Lansbury married British-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw, who was a former boyfriend of Joan Crawford. Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Lansbury's career. They were married for 54 years until his death in January 2003. 
  • Ex-stepmother-in-law of Catherine Bach.
  • Lansbury's half-sister Isolde was married to Peter Ustinov for some years but divorced in 1946.
  • She had knee replacement surgery on 14 July 2005.