Grandmother, via son Anthony Pullen Shaw, of Ian Lansbury.
Her performance as Mrs. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is ranked #21 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains for villains.
Her performance as Mrs. John Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is ranked #91 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.
Her singing voice was dubbed in The Harvey Girls (1946).
Her son was a follower of Charles Manson's gang. After the Sharon Tate murders, she thought it best to get him out of the country. She took him to Ireland to help him with his drug problems.
Her twin brothers are both film producers.
Is a member of St. David's Anglican Church in North Hollywood, California.
July 14, 2005: She had knee replacement surgery.
July 21, 2000: She withdrew from a Broadway musical, "The Visit," due to her husband's impending heart surgery.
Lansbury is a Republican and throughout the years has supported Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and John McCain. She has appeared throughout the years at many of the Republican National Conventions and she had donated money to the RNC and during her Hollywood years she was a member of the Hollywood Republican Committee. She plans to endorse Mitt Romney in the 2012 Presidential Election.
On the last episode of "Murder, She Wrote" (1984), she didn't work on the final day of production as there was too much emotion going on.
Played Elvis Presley's mother in Blue Hawaii (1961), despite only being 10 years older than him.
She and Mildred Natwick were both in The Court Jester (1956) and were reunited in an episode of "Murder, She Wrote" (1984) ("Murder in the Electric Cathedral") 30 years later.
She had performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in their annual public Christmas concerts at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.
She has been nominated 12 times for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series on "Murder, She Wrote" (1984), plus four more before, during and after the series, but didn't win.
She has been the co-recipient of 3 Grammy Awards for the Broadway stage shows, "Mame" (1966) and "Sweeney Todd" (1979) in which she played the female lead.
She has one half-sister, Isolde, from her mother's first marriage to Reginald Denham. Isolde was married to Peter Ustinov, with whom she had one daughter, Tamara Ustinov, Lansbury's niece.
She now holds the record for the most Emmy nominations without a single win.
She reunited with Death on the Nile (1978) co-star Olivia Hussey in the "Murder, She Wrote" (1984) episode "Sing a Song of Murder" (#27), seven years after that film. Olivia played Rosalie Otterbourne in the movie and she was the daughter of Salome Otterbourne, played by Lansbury.