Angela Lansbury will receive the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2022 gala.
In a career spanning over 75 years, Lansbury has already won five Tonys. After breaking into films for the first time, Lansbury made her Broadway debut in 1957 at the Paradiso Hotel. Over the decades, she went on to star in “Anyone Can Whistle,” “Mame,” “Dear World,” “Gypsy,” and Sweeney Todd. After a 24-year hiatus, she returned to Broadway in 2007 with “Deuce” followed two years later by “Blithe Spirit” and another Tony. She will also appear in the films “A Little Night Music” and “The Best Man”.
Lansbury has starred in more than 70 films, including Gaslight, National Velvet, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Long Hot Summer, and, perhaps most memorably, the Manchurian Candidate as the embodiment of maternal hatred. . She received three Academy Award nominations for her work. She became familiar to a new generation of viewers as the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” and from her work on “Nanny McPhee”.
From 1984 to 1996 she played Jessica Fletcher in “Murder, She Wrote”, the longest-running police drama in television history. She has 6 Golden Globe Awards, 18 Emmy Award nominations and an Honorary Academy Award for her lifetime achievement. In 2014, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Lansbury Lady Commander of the British Empire.
“Angela Lansbury’s contributions to theater are insurmountable,” said Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League and Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theater Wing.
“West Side Story” star Ariana Debos will host the Tony Awards on June 12.
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