Here's How Many Grandchildren Angela Lansbury Has

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in classic cinema more iconic than Dame Angela Lansbury. She had been acting since she moved from London to New York City as a young woman. She's perhaps best known as "Murder, She Wrote" protagonist Jessica Fletcher, but Lansbury appeared in an array of movies and shows throughout a career that spanned almost eight decades. Later roles included portraying Aunt March in a 2017 miniseries adaptation of the classic novel "Little Women," a voice role in "The Grinch," and a part in "Mary Poppins Returns." Lansbury died in 2022 at the age of 96.

On top of her much-celebrated acting work, Lansbury was married twice. She had no children with her first husband, actor Richard Cromwell, but her second marriage, to fellow actor Peter Shaw, produced two children as well as a stepson from Shaw's first marriage. Over the years, the legendary actress welcomed grandchildren and even became a great-grandmother, too. But how many grandchildren does she have in total? Here's the answer.

As well as her stepson, David, whom she treated as her own, Angela Lansbury gave birth to son Anthony in 1952 and daughter Deirdre in 1953. Anthony has three children, making his mother a grandmother of three. Anthony's kids, Ian, Peter, and Katherine are all adults now and, thanks to Peter, Lansbury is a great-grandmother as well.

Lansbury revealed this in an interview with Woman & Home, in which she described her family as being one of her "biggest joys," and talked about how much she enjoyed spending time with and spoiling her younger relatives. "Of course I'm doing all the spoiling," she said. "If there's one thing I want more time for at this stage of my life, it's them."

Despite the star's passing, with three grandchildren, there could well be more siblings or cousins to join her first-born great-grandchild in the years to come.