Angela Lansbury

A career spanning almost eight decades, Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury’s work has garnered her much attention internationally. She is coined as one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and the earliest surviving Academy Award nominee. To escape the Blitz during the early ‘40s, she made investments and tested her luck in the United States, where she studied acting in New York City. After signing to MGM, she obtained her first film roles in the 1994 Gaslight and 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray, the latter earning her a Golden Globe Award and two Oscar nominations.

At age 95, it seems that she isn’t in the limelight that much compared to her prime years in the industry. In October 2020, Variety magazine considered her career to “defy all logic.” Her last known appearance on Broadway was on November 18, 2019, where she portrayed Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.