Lansbury Wins Fifth Tony; Ties Harris for Most Acting Honors
Angela Lansbury won her fifth career Tony Award June 7: Best Featured Actress within a Play for Blithe Spirit.
Lansbury's gross already ties that of previous record-holder for an actor, Julie Harris.
Harris won everybody her Tonys within Leading Actress within a Play roles: I Am a Camera (1952), The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973) and The Belle of Amherst (1977).
Lansbury won her former four Tonys within the Leading Actress within a Musical categories: Mame (1966), Dear World (1969), Gypsy (1975) and Sweeney Todd (1979). She was tabled as Best Leading Actress within a Play within 2007 for Deuce, but did not win. This 2009 honor is her former as Best Featured Actress within a Play.
Harris also won a special Lifetime Achievement Award within 2002.
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