Olivier Awards success for Angela Lansbury and Sunny Afternoon

Dame Angela Lansbury said she felt "like a million dollars" after winning her first Olivier Award for her first West End role in nearly 40 years, the BBC reports.

Dame Angela, 89, won best supporting actress for the role of eccentric medium Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit.

The Kinks-inspired musical Sunny Afternoon and drama A View From the Bridge both won multiple awards.

Hosted by Lenny Henry, the Oliviers ceremony took place at London's Royal Opera House on Sunday night.
Accepting her statuette, Dame Angela said: "All these years of waiting. I am so infinitely grateful to have this baby in my hands."

The Murder, She Wrote star, who was born in east London in 1925, recalled how she started her stage career in "a lovely play" with Dame Peggy Ashcroft, the title of which she couldn't recall.

"I can't remember a lot of things these days - except I can remember my lines," she joked.

She added: "Here I am creeping up to 90 and feeling like a million dollars because I'm in London in this magnificent hall with all you - my roots, where I began."

The actress's star turn in Blithe Spirit took place at the Gielgud Theatre where her mother, actress Moyna Macgill, made her debut on the same stage in 1918 - when the theatre was known as The Globe.