Moyna MacGill Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Moyna Macgill (10 December 1895 – 25 November 1975) was an Irish stage and film actress and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury and producers Edgar Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury. Born as Charlotte Lillian McIldowie in Belfast, she was the daughter of a wealthy solicitor who also worked as a director of the Belfast Opera, a position that sparked her interest in theatrics. She was still a teen when she was noticed riding the London Underground by director George Pearson, who cast her in several of his films. In 1918, she made her stage debut in the play Love in a Cottage at the West End's... MORE

Moyna Macgill (10 December 1895 – 25 November 1975) was an Irish stage and film actress and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury and producers Edgar Lansbury and Bruce Lansbury. Born as Charlotte Lillian McIldowie in Belfast, she was the daughter of a wealthy solicitor who also worked as a director of the Belfast Opera, a position that sparked her interest in theatrics. She was still a teen when she was noticed riding the London Underground by director George Pearson, who cast her in several of his films. In 1918, she made her stage debut in the play Love in a Cottage at the West End's Globe Theatre. Encouraged by Gerald du Maurier to change her name to Moyna Macgill (which invariably was misspelled as "MacGill" or "McGill", and on at least one occasion, the film Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven, as "Magill"), she became a leading actress of the day, appearing in light comedies, melodramas, and classics opposite Herbert Marshall, John Gielgud, and Basil Rathbone, among others. Twenty-six-year old Macgill was married with a three-year-old daughter, Isolde (who later married Peter Ustinov), when she became involved romantically with Edgar Lansbury, a socialist politician, who was son of LESS