Jessica Tandy

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: Acting
Birthday: 1909-06-07
Place of Birth: London, England
Also Known As: Jessica Alice Tandy

Movies List of Jessica Tandy

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Driving Miss Daisy

1989 Movie
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The Birds

1963 Movie
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Fried Green Tomatoes

1991 Movie
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Cocoon

1985 Movie
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Cocoon: The Return

1988 Movie
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Nobody's Fool

1994 Movie
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Still of the Night

1982 Movie
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Dragonwyck

1946 Movie
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The Bostonians

1984 Movie
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Murder in the Family

1938 Movie
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Best Friends

1982 Movie
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September Affair

1950 Movie
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The Seventh Cross

1944 Movie
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Camilla

1994 Movie
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A Woman's Vengeance

1948 Movie
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The Story Lady

1991 Movie
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The Green Years

1946 Movie
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Forever Amber

1947 Movie
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Butley

1974 Movie
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Foxfire

1987 Movie
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The Fourposter

1955 Movie
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Used People

1992 Movie
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The Gin Game

1981 Movie
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Indiscretions of Eve

1932 Movie
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Blonde Fever

1944 Movie
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The Christmas Tree

1958 Movie
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Honky Tonk Freeway

1981 Movie
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The Moon and Sixpence

1959 Movie