Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

  • Birthday: 1909-06-07
  • Deathday: 1994-09-11
  • Place of birth: London, England
  • Also know as: Jessica Alice Tandy

Biography

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.

Filmography

Camilla

1994

As Camilla Cara

The Story Lady

1991

As Grace McQueen

Foxfire

1987

As Annie Nations

The Gin Game

1981

As Fonsia Dorsey

Driving Miss Daisy

1989

As Daisy Werthan

Fried Green Tomatoes

1991

As Ninny Threadgoode

*batteries not included

1987

As Faye Riley

To Dance with the White Dog

1993

As Cora Peek

Butley

1974

As Edna Shaft

Murder in the Family

1938

As Ann Osborne

The Birds

1963

As Lydia Brenner

Still of the Night

1982

As Grace Rice

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

1951

As Frau Lucie Marie Rommel

The Bostonians

1984

As Miss Birdseye

Best Friends

1982

As Eleanor McCullen

A Woman's Vengeance

1948

As Janet Spence

Nobody's Fool

1994

As Beryl Peoples

September Affair

1950

As Catherine Lawrence

The House on Carroll Street

1988

As Miss Venable

The Seventh Cross

1944

As Liesel Roeder

Used People

1992

As Freida

Indiscretions of Eve

1932

As Penelope, the Maid

The Moon and Sixpence

1959

As Blanche Stroeve

The Light in the Forest

1958

As Myra Butler

The World According to Garp

1982

As Mrs. Fields

A Streetcar on Broadway

2006

As Self (archive footage)

The Green Years

1946

As Kate Leckie

Forever Amber

1947

As Nan Britton

Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star

2003

As Self (archive footage)

Cocoon

1985

As Alma Finley

Blonde Fever

1944

As Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen

2003

As Daisy Werthan (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cocoon: The Return

1988

As Alma Finley

Dragonwyck

1946

As Peggy O'Malley

The Valley of Decision

1945

As Louise Kane

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

1962

As Mrs. Helen Adams

Honky Tonk Freeway

1981

As Carol

The Christmas Tree

1958

As Mrs. Martin

Terror in the Aisles

1984

As Lydia Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited)

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