Angela Lansbury is an English-American actress in theatre, television and motion pictures. Angela Lansbury was born in Poplar, London, to actress Moyna MacGill and politician Edgar.

In 1945, she married American actor Richard Cromwell, but the marriage dissolved after one year. Angela Lansbury is the mother of two and stepmother of one. Her son Anthony Shaw, after a brief fling with acting, became director of Murder, She Wrote.