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person_profile-Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jessica Tandy

Date of Birth:

Jun 07, 1909

Country of birth:

England

Died:

Sep 11, 1994

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Jessica Tandy

Found 37 Movies in total

Nobody's Fool

Beryl Peoples ( Actor )

... 1994

Camilla

Camilla Cara ( Actor )

... 1994

To Dance with the White Dog

Cora Peek ( Actor )

... 1993

Used People

Freida ( Actor )

... 1992

Fried Green Tomatoes

Ninny Threadgoode ( Actor )

... 1991

The Story Lady

Grace McQueen ( Actor )

... 1991

... 1990

Driving Miss Daisy

Daisy Werthan ( Actor )

... 1989

Cocoon: The Return

Alma Finley ( Actor )

... 1988

The House on Carroll Street

Miss Venable ( Actor )

... 1988

*batteries not included

Faye Riley ( Actor )

... 1987

Foxfire

Annie Nations ( Actor )

... 1987

Cocoon

Alma Finley ( Actor )

... 1985

Terror in the Aisles

Lydia Brenner (archive footage) (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1984

The Bostonians

Miss Birdseye ( Actor )

... 1984

Best Friends

Eleanor McCullen ( Actor )

... 1982

Still of the Night

Grace Rice ( Actor )

... 1982

The World According to Garp

Mrs. Fields ( Actor )

... 1982

Honky Tonk Freeway

Carol ( Actor )

... 1981

The Gin Game

Fonsia Dorsey ( Actor )

... 1981

Butley

Edna Shaft ( Actor )

... 1974

... 1973

The Birds

Lydia Brenner ( Actor )

... 1963

Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man

Mrs. Helen Adams ( Actor )

... 1962

The Moon and Sixpence

Blanche Stroeve ( Actor )

... 1959

The Light in the Forest

Myra Butler ( Actor )

... 1958

The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

Frau Lucie Marie Rommel ( Actor )

... 1951

September Affair

Catherine Lawrence ( Actor )

... 1950

A Woman's Vengeance

Janet Spence ( Actor )

... 1948

Forever Amber

Nan Britton ( Actor )

... 1947

The Green Years

Kate Leckie ( Actor )

... 1946

Dragonwyck

Peggy O'Malley ( Actor )

... 1946

The Valley of Decision

Louise Kane ( Actor )

... 1945

Blonde Fever

Restaurant Patron ( Actor )

... 1944

The Seventh Cross

Liesel Roeder ( Actor )

... 1944

Murder in the Family

Ann Osborne ( Actor )

... 1938

Indiscretions of Eve

Penelope, the Maid ( Actor )

... 1932