Angela Lansbury was an Anglo-American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award three times, nominated for the Emmy Award eighteen times, won the Golden Globe six times, and received the highest American theater award, the Tony, five times. In 2013, Lansbury received an honorary Academy Award for more than seventy years of contribution to the development of cinema. In 2014, she became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to dramatic art and charity.

To Russian viewers she is best known for the role of Jessica Fletcher in the series "Murder, She Wrote," and for the films "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945), "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" (1971), "Death on the Nile" (1978), and "Nanny McPhee" (2005).