sentences:  She was a distant cousin of the British film and television actor Angela Lansbury.Her paternal grandparents were Arthur Thomas Lansbury from London, who emigrated to Australia in 1884, and Ellen Smith, an Australian whose paternal grandparents were Irish and maternal grandparents English.Lansbury attended North Sydney Girls High School and sat the NSW Leaving Certificate in 1945, entering the University of Sydney in 1947 as an unmatriculated student.