Jessica Tandy

Jessie Alice "Jessica" Tandy (June 7 1909 – September 11 1994) was an English - American stage and film actress. She first appeared on the London stage in 1926 at the age of 16, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V, and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films. Following the end of her marriage to Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York, where she met Canadian actor Hume Cronyn. He became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for her performance as Blanche Dubois in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948, sharing the prize with Katherine Cornell (who won for Antony and Cleopatra) and Judith Anderson (for the latter's portrayal of Medea). Over the following three decades, her career continued sporadically and included a substantial role in Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds (1963), and a Tony Award-winning performance in The Gin Game (playing in the two-character play opposite her husband, Cronyn) in 1977. She, along with Cronyn was a member of the original acting company of The Guthrie Theater. In the mid 1980s she enjoyed a career revival. She appeared opposite Hume Cronyn in the Broadway production of Foxfire in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in films such as Cocoon (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). At the height of her success, she was named as one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People". She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1990, and continued working until shortly before her death. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jessica Tandy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Birth Location London, England
Born 1909-06-07
Died 1994-09-11

Movies

A Streetcar on Broadway as Self (archive footage)
2006
2003
Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen as Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
Nobody's Fool as Beryl Peoples
1994
Camilla as Camilla Cara
1994
1993
Used People as Freida
1992
Fried Green Tomatoes as Ninny Threadgoode
1991
The Story Lady as Grace McQueen
1991
1990
Driving Miss Daisy as Daisy Werthan
1989
Cocoon: The Return as Alma Finley
1988
The House on Carroll Street as Miss Venable
1988
*batteries not included as Faye Riley
1987
Foxfire as Annie Nations
1987
Cocoon as Alma Finley
1985
Terror in the Aisles as Lydia Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited)
1984
The Bostonians as Miss Birdseye
1984
Best Friends as Eleanor McCullen
1982
Still of the Night as Grace Rice
1982
1982
1981
The Gin Game as Fonsia Dorsey
1981
Butley as Edna Shaft
1974
The Birds as Lydia Brenner
1963
1962
The Moon and Sixpence as Blanche Stroeve
1959
The Christmas Tree as Mrs. Martin
1958
The Light in the Forest as Myra Butler
1958
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel
1951
September Affair as Catherine Lawrence
1950
A Woman's Vengeance as Janet Spence
1948
Forever Amber as Nan Britton
1947
The Green Years as Kate Leckie
1946
Dragonwyck as Peggy O'Malley
1946
The Valley of Decision as Louise Kane
1945
Blonde Fever as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
1944
The Seventh Cross as Liesel Roeder
1944
Murder in the Family as Ann Osborne
1938
Indiscretions of Eve as Penelope, the Maid
1932
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