Angela Lansbury

Angela Lansbury, CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a British-born actress, the granddaughter of British Labour politician George Lansbury. She was born Angela Brigid Lansbury in London, England, the daughter of a Belfast-born actress,

Angela Lansbury, CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a British-born actress, the granddaughter of British Labour politician George Lansbury. She was born Angela Brigid Lansbury in London, England, the daughter of a Belfast-born actress, Moyna MacGill. She moved to the United States at the beginning of World War II and became a naturalized citizen in 1951.

As a struggling young actress in Los Angeles, Lansbury worked at the Bullocks Wilshire department store. She made her Academy Award nominated film debut in 1944, in the Charles Boyer/Ingrid Bergman film Gaslight, followed by another Oscar nomination for the Oscar Wilde film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and 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).