Deidre Angela Shaw: Facts About Angela Lansbury’s daughter

Deidre Angela Shaw is the daughter of Angela Lansbury. Deidre Angela Shaw’s mother Lansbury is an Irish-British actress and singer who has played many films, theatre, and television roles. Her career has spanned over 80 years, much of it in the United States; her work has received much international attention as well.

Deidre Angela Shaw: Bio Sumamry

Deidre Angela Shaw is the daughter of Angela Lansbury and her husband Peter Shaw. She was born on April 26 1953 in New York, New York, United States. As of 2022, she is 69 years old. Her birth sign is Taurus. Deidre Angela is not the only child of her parents, she has two other siblings. They are Anthony Pullen Shaw and David Charles Shaw. Deidre Angela Shaw’s father Peter Shaw was an English actor and producer.

In an interview with The Daily Mail, her mother, Lansbury discusses how the life she shared with her father, Peter Shaw was nearly upended when the two discovered that both of their young teenage children were experimenting with heavy drugs.

Anthony and Deidre grew up in Malibu and got heavily involved with drugs in their early teens. The English actor’s daughter was hanging out with the crowd led by Charles Manson. Angela revealed to the Daily Mail:

“It started with cannabis but moved on to heroin. There were factions up in the hills above Malibu that were dedicated to deadly pursuits. It pains me to say it, but, at one stage, Deidre was in with a crowd led by Charles Manson.”

Deidre Angela Shaw’s mother Angela Lansbury relocated to County Cork, Ireland, in order to aid her children, and she didn’t work while Anthony and Deidre recovered. That was back in the 1960s, and the star of “Murder, She Wrote” said there weren’t many choices for helping addicted teenagers at the time.

The family’s wisest decision was to relocate to her mother’s homeland. Lansbury claimed that she and her husband had no understanding of what was going on, much less how to deal with it:

“Certainly, I have no doubt we would have lost one or both of our two if they hadn’t been removed to a completely different milieu, the simplicity of life in Ireland.”

Deidre Angela Shaw’s parents found a doctor who prescribed methadone to her children — a heroin substitute to help with the withdrawal symptoms. 

While Deidre Angela Shaw’s mother, Lansbury repeatedly stated that she wanted to put her children before her career, she admitted that she often had to leave them in California for long periods when she was working elsewhere. 

Angela Lansbury brought up her children to be Episcopalian, although they were not members of a congregation. She has stated that “I believe that God is within all of us, that we are perfect, precious beings, and that we have to put our faith and trust in that.”

Both Anthony and Deidre eventually pulled out of their bad habits and created new ones. The actress’ son followed his parents’ footsteps and pursued a career as an actor and director in the entertainment industry.

Deidre Angela Shaw went down a different career path than her older sibling. Deidre and her husband, chef Enzo Battara, opened up a restaurant in Los Angeles called Enzo and Angela – The Italian Restaurant. They met in Italy and have been cooking together for more than two decades. 

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Deidre Angela Shaw’s mother Lansbury

At the age of 19, Deidre Angela Shaw’s mother Lansbury got married with a fellow actor,  Richard Cromwell, 15 years her senior. In a 2017 interview with the Radio Times, Lansbury admitted she was searching for a father figure:

“I understand younger women marrying older men. It’s a father — she didn’t have the father, and now she’s looking for it.” 

But the marriage wouldn’t last as the British actress solved that her husband was gay. Seven months later, their relationship fell apart, as the first partner “couldn’t fulfill his function” as a straight husband. The marriage ended in divorce in 1946, but they remained friends until his death in 1960.

In 1949, she married actor and producer Peter Shaw, and they remained together for 54 years until his death in 2003. She acquired a stepson, David, from Shaw’s first marriage.

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Deidre Angela Shaw’s mother died at the age of 96

Her mother passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at the age of 96. Broadway World has a statement from Lansbury’s family: “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday. In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre, and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine, and Ian, plus five great-grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined.”