[188] In November 2013, she received an Academy Honorary Award for her lifetime achievement at the Governors Awards. [185], From March to July 2012, Lansbury appeared as women's rights advocate Sue-Ellen Gamadge in the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Set in the Deep South, it dealt with issues of racism, with Lansbury playing a wealthy alcoholic who seeks sexual encounters with black men. Her net worth is estimated to be a whopping $70 million. Deidre Angela is not the only child of her parents, she has two other siblings. The Truth About Angela Lansbury's Kids - NickiSwift.com [134] Designed as inoffensive family viewing, despite its topic the show eschewed depicting violence or gore, following the "whodunit" format rather than those of most US crime shows of the time. [111] Her first cinematic role in seven years was as novelist Salome Otterbourne in a 1978 adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, filmed in both London and Egypt. Didi grew up in Malibu with two older brothers. Hollywood Life In April 1953, her daughter Deirdre Angela Shaw was born. One of these actresses is Angela Lansbury, a British-American actress who is known for her many theater, film and television roles. [197] Her next role was as Aunt March in the BBC miniseries Little Women, screened in December 2017. [189] In 2014, Lansbury was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Macgill secured a job supervising 60 British children who were being evacuated to North America aboard the Duchess of Athol, arriving with them in Montreal, Canada, in August 1940. Happy at Last. Learn more about the Hollywood legend's family. [213] In The Daily Telegraph, the theatre critic Dominic Cavendish stated that Lansbury's hallmarks were "self-composure, commitment and, yes, gentility", approaches he thought had become "in too short supply in the age of snowflakery and social media self-promotion.
