
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 ForActing
- Born7 June 1909 (age 116)
- Place of BirthLondon, England
Jessica Tandy

- Known ForActing
- Born7 June 1909 (age 116)
- Place of BirthLondon, England

A Streetcar on Broadway
2006

Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star
2003

Miss Daisy's Journey: From Stage to Screen
2003
Moments of Discovery: The Making of Fried Green Tomatoes
1998

Nobody's Fool
1994

Camilla
1994

To Dance with the White Dog
1993

Used People
1992

Fried Green Tomatoes
1991

The Story Lady
1991

Night of 100 Stars III
1990

Driving Miss Daisy
1989

Cocoon: The Return
1988

The House on Carroll Street
1988

*batteries not included
1987

Foxfire
1987

Cocoon
1985

The Bostonians
1984

The World According to Garp
1982

Still of the Night
1982

Best Friends
1982

The Gin Game
1981

Honky Tonk Freeway
1981

Butley
1974

Tennessee Williams' South
1973

The Birds
1963

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962

The Moon and Sixpence
1959

The Light in the Forest
1958
The Christmas Tree
1958

The Fourposter
1955

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951

September Affair
1950

A Woman's Vengeance
1948

Forever Amber
1947

Dragonwyck
1946

The Green Years
1946

The Valley of Decision
1945

The Seventh Cross
1944

Blonde Fever
1944

Murder in the Family
1938
