Angela Lansbury was one of the most celebrated actresses in the history of Broadway and entertainment. A five-time Tony Award winner, her legendary Broadway career included iconic performances in Mame, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Gypsy, Dear World, and Blithe Spirit. She returned to Broadway in the 2009 revival of A Little Night Music, playing Madame Armfeldt to great acclaim, proving her enduring brilliance well into her eighties.
Born in London, Lansbury began her film career with an Oscar-nominated debut in Gaslight at age seventeen. She earned three Academy Award nominations and became a global television icon as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons. Her extraordinary career spanned more than seven decades and encompassed every facet of the performing arts, establishing her as one of the most beloved and accomplished entertainers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.