Angela Lansbury:
After playing a supporting role for half his life, he ushered in the peak of his career at the age of 60
In the early morning of October 11, local time, Hollywood's "Golden Age" - Angela Lansbury, a famous actress in the 1930s and 1940s, died in Los Angeles, USA.
She was nominated for an Academy Award three times in that era of star-studded and talented people.
"It is with a heavy heart that the children of Lansbury announce that our mother passed away peacefully at her home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. on October 11, 2022, just five days before her 97th birthday." Her children announced on social media.
Lansbury was born in London, England, her mother was an actress and her father died when she was 9 years old.
Her grandfather was a former British Labour Party leader and came from a well-off family.
Lansbury studied stage art at an early age and attended acting school with her sister in Ireland.
After the outbreak of World War II, the family left the UK in 1940 to avoid the war, "at that time my mother sold everything and let us get on the boat".
That year, they first arrived in Canada, and then took the train to New York, USA.
During that time, Lansbury still did not give up studying acting, and even found a job as a salesman to make a living.
Lansbury's first stage job was in Montreal, Canada, when the 16-year-old lied that she was 19 and was paid $60 a week—not a thing to her at the time. Small number of pens.
In 1943, Lansbury signed a seven-year contract with MGM and began to develop in Hollywood, and soon showed his talent in acting. In 1944, he made his screen debut in "Under the Gaslight" for The film stars Ingrid Bergman.
Lansbury was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, when she was not yet 20 years old.
The following year, she was again nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Lansbury's third Academy Award nomination came in 1963 for her role as a mother who betrayed her son and her country in the film "Mr.
Regrettably, she never won an Oscar, but "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Spy on the Web" earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.
In those days, film and television companies had a lot of control over actors, and companies often cast young Lansbury in roles that were much older than her actual age.
But it turned out that it honed Lansbury's acting skills, she once said: "It was like a very nervous trainer during that time, I played various roles, played roles older than me, learned A lot of skills that you might never have learned before." In "The Secret Life," the then 37-year-old played the mother of the protagonist Lawrence Harvey, who was actually only less than three years older than the "son" .
Lansbury has outstanding looks and superb acting skills, but she has never been able to become popular, but she still persists in her acting career.
She has been performing on Broadway since 1957 and has won five Tony Awards for American Drama, the highest award for American plays and musicals, for her roles in plays such as "Mam", "Gypsy" and "Sweeney Todd".
Lansbury also voices her voice, first voicing her voice in Disney's "Flying Bed" in 1971 and Mrs. Teapot in the Oscar-nominated animated film "Beauty and the Beast" in 1991.
"It's really weird to think that kids can recognize my voice. When they hear my voice elsewhere, they say, 'Mum, it's Mrs. Teapot talking!'" Lansbury accepted in 2012 said in an interview.
Around the age of 60, Lansbury ushered in the peak of his acting career.
Between 1984 and 1996, Lansbury starred in the detective TV series "Women Writers and Murder", this time in the lead role, playing a mystery novelist and amateur detective who always encounters various cases .
Lansbury herself also believes that of all the roles she has played, this female writer named Jessica Fletcher is the most similar to herself.
She's been nominated for 11 consecutive Emmys for Best Actress in a Drama Series and won four Golden Globes for Best Actress for the show.
Lansbury can be described as an evergreen in the performing arts, still working at the age of eighty or ninety.
In 2017, at the age of 92, she participated in the miniseries version of "Little Women", and also appeared in a musical the following year.
She also fulfilled her dream Oscar in 2013 and won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award.
The late Queen Elizabeth II awarded Lansbury a Knight Commander in 2014.
Lansbury once said: "There are two things I do best in my life, one is housework, and the other is acting. Acting is the first, so sometimes the house is messy."
Compiled by reporter Wang Xiaoying and intern Wu Chengrui
Qilu Evening News