Angela Lansbury to Receive Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAngela Lansbury will receive the Tony Award for lifetime achievement at the 2022 ceremony.
In a career that spans over 75 years, Lansbury has already won five competitive Tonys. After first breaking into movies, Lansbury made her Broadway debut in 1957 in “Hotel Paradiso.” Over the decades, she’d go 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 would also appear in “A Little Night Music” and “The Best Man.”Lansbury has starred in over 70 films including “Gaslight,” “National Velvet,” “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” “The Long, Hot Summer” and, perhaps most memorably, in “The Manchurian Candidate” as the personification of maternal malevolence.
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