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Jessica Tandy
Actor
Born June 7, 1909Died September 11, 1994 (85 years)
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.
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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.
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Known For
Filmography
| 2013 | Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck · as Daisy Werthan |
| 2008 | Oscar, que empiece el espectáculo · as Daisy Werthan |
| 2007 | Brando · as Cast |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters · as Daisy Werthan |
| 2003 | Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There · as Blanche Dubois |
| 2000 | Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years · as Alma Finley |
| 2000 | All About 'the Birds' · as Lydia Brenner |
| 1994 | Nobody's Fool · as Beryl Peoples |
| 1994 | Camilla · as Camilla Cara |
| 1993 | To Dance with the White Dog · as Cora Peek |
| 1992 | Used People · as Freida |
| 1991 | Fried Green Tomatoes · as Ninny Threadgoode |
| 1991 | The Story Lady · as Grace Mcqueen |
| 1990 | Dream On (TV Series) · as (archive Footage) |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy · as Daisy Werthan |
| 1988 | Cocoon: The Return · as Alma Finley |
| 1988 | The House on Carroll Street · as Miss Venable |
| 1987 | *batteries not included · as Faye Riley |
| 1987 | Foxfire · as Annie Nations |
| 1985 | Cocoon · as Alma Finley |
| 1984 | Terror in the Aisles · as Lydia Brenner |
| 1984 | The Bostonians · as Miss Birdseye |
| 1982 | Best Friends · as Eleanor Mccullen |
| 1982 | Still of the Night · as Grace Rice |
| 1982 | The World According to Garp · as Mrs. Fields |
| 1981 | Honky Tonk Freeway · as Carol |
| 1981 | The Gin Game · as Fonsia Dorsey |
| 1974 | Butley · as Edna Shaft |
| 1973 | |
| 1971 | O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) · as Genevieve |
| 1967 | Judd for the Defense (TV Series) · as Helen Wister |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Ardyth Nolan |
| 1963 | Breaking Point (TV Series) · as Roberta Duncan |
| 1963 | The Birds · as Lydia Brenner |
| 1962 | Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man · as Mrs. Helen Adams |
| 1959 | The Moon and Sixpence · as Blanche Stroeve |
| 1958 | The Light in the Forest · as Myra Butler |
| 1957 | Suspicion (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1957 | The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) · as Mrs. Baines |
| 1956 | Telephone Time (TV Series) |
| 1955 | Alcoa Hour (TV Series) · as Olivia Crummit |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Edwina Freel |
| 1954 | Producers' Showcase (TV Series) · as Agnes |
| 1954 | Studio 57 (TV Series) · as Miss Bedford |
| 1953 | The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) · as Alice Wiggims |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Laura Whitemore |
| 1952 | Omnibus (TV Series) · as Louisa Catherine Johnson |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall Of Fame (TV Series) · as Mrs. Martin |
| 1951 | The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel · as Frau Lucie Marie Rommel |
| 1951 | Goodyear Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Leticia Blacklock |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Cora Torrence |
| 1950 | September Affair · as Catherine Lawrence |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Mrs. Moore |
| 1948 | The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) · as Liz Marriott |
| 1948 | Actors Studio (TV Series) · as Miss Lucretia Collins |
| 1948 | A Woman's Vengeance · as Janet Spence |
| 1947 | Forever Amber · as Nan Britton |
| 1946 | The Green Years · as Kate Leckie |
| 1946 | Lights Out (TV Series) |
| 1946 | Dragonwyck · as Peggy O'malley |
| 1945 | The Valley of Decision · as Louise Kane |
| 1944 | Blonde Fever · as Restaurant Patron (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Seventh Cross · as Liesel Roeder |
| 1938 | Murder in the Family · as Ann Osborne |