Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury is best known for her role as Jessica Fletcher on the CBS TV show "Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996)" and in the movies "Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997)", "Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)", "Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)" and "Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)"

Some other TV shows she appeared on are "Robert Montgomery Presents", "The Ford Television Theatre", "The Revlon Mirror Theater", "Schlitz Playhouse", "Lux Video Theatre", "General Electric Theater", "Fireside Theatre", "Four Star Playhouse", "Stage 7", "The Star and the Story", "Celebrity Playhouse", "Front Row Center", "Screen Directors Playhouse", "Studio 57", "Undercurrent", "Climax!", "Playhouse 90", "The Eleventh Hour", "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Trials of O'Brien", "Lace", "The First Olympics: Athens 1896", "Magnum, P.I.", "Newhart", "Touched by an Angel", "Law & Order: Trial by Jury", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "Great Performances" and "Little Women".

She played Nancy Oliver in the movie "Gaslight (1944)", Princess Gwendolyn in "The Court Jester (1956)", Mrs. Eleanor Shaw Iselin in "The Manchurian Candidate (1962)", Claudia Procula in "The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)", Miss Eglantine Price in "Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)", Salome Otterbourne in "Death on the Nile (1978)", Miss Froy in "The Lady Vanishes (1979)", Miss Jane Marple in "The Mirror Crack'd (1980)", Nellie Lovett in "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)", Mrs. Emily Pollifax in "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)", Great Aunt Adelaide in "Nanny McPhee (2005)" and Miss Daisy Werthan in "Driving Miss Daisy (2014)".

Some other movies she appeared in are "National Velvet (1944)", "The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)", "The Harvey Girls (1946)", "The Hoodlum Saint (1946)", "Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)", "The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)", "If Winter Comes (1947)", "Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)", "State of the Union (1948)", "The Three Musketeers (1948)", "The Red Danube (1949)", "Samson and Delilah (1949)", "Kind Lady (1951)", "Mutiny (1952)", "Remains to Be Seen (1953)", "The Purple Mask (1955)", "A Life at stake (1955)", "A Lawless Street (1955)", "Please Murder Me! (1956)", "The Long, Hot Summer (1958)", "The Reluctant Debutante (1958)", "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (a.k.a. Season of Passion) (1959)", "A Breath of Scandal (1960)", "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)", "Blue Hawaii (1961)", "All Fall Down (1962)", "In the Cool of the Day (1963)", "The World of Henry Orient (1964)", "Dear Heart (1964)", "The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)", "Harlow (1965)", "Mister Buddwing (1966)", "Something for Everyone (1970)", "Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)", "The Pirates of Penzance (1983)", "The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)", "A Talent for Murder (1984)","The Company of Wolves (1984)", "Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)", "Shootdown (1988)", "The Shell Seekers (1989)", "The Love She Sought (1990)", "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)", "Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)", "The Blackwater Lightship (2004)", "Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)", "Mary Poppins Returns (2018)", "Buttons, A New Musical Film (2018)" and "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)".

In 2013 she won the Academy Honorary Award for "an entertainment icon who has created some of cinema's most memorable characters, inspiring generations of actors" .