Actress. For a career that spanned over half a century, the London-born actress received 5 Tony Awards, 18 Emmy nominations, 3 Academy Award nominations, and an Honorary Oscar (2013). Lansbury received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her very first film role, as the young maid Nancy in the home of Charles Boyer and his new bride Ingrid Bergman in George Cukor's "Gaslight" (1944). For her third movie, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945), she received another nomination for playing a singer whose heart was broken by the title character. For her third nomination, she portrayed Laurence Harvey's manipulative mother in the Cold War classic "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). Starring in the 1966 production of "Mame" vaulted her to Broadway superstardom and resulted in the first of her four Tonys for Best Actress in a Musical. Her work on the stage during the 1970s would also include a run in the National Theatre Company's production of "Hamlet" and the Broadway revival of "The King and I." In 1983, Lansbury received a legion of new fans as she played Jessica Fletcher in "Murder, She Wrote," as the author who solved mysteries in Cabot Cove, Maine. The show ran from 1983 to 1996 and gave Lansbury creative control of her character on and behind the screen, becoming a Producer and gaining not only older audiences, but young viewers as well. The show has since become a cult classic to this day. She also was the voice of Mrs. Potts in the 1991 Disney movie "Beauty and the Beast," singing the title song which would win an Oscar for Best Song. In 2003, Lansbury retired from leading performances and played supporting roles in the likes of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and films like "Nanny McPhee" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins." She continued to act on stage, earning another Tony for her role in the revival of "Blithe Spirit." Up until 2019, Lansbury was continuing to play roles on stage. She had recently made an appearance as the Balloon Lady in the 2018 Disney sequel, "Mary Poppins Returns."